Former athletic director Tom Box was named the interim athletic director at Seattle Pacific, President Daniel Martin announced Tuesday. Box previously led the SPU athletic department from July 1998 until July 2008.
During his previous tenure, five SPU teams were national runners-up and 14 student-athletes collected individual national championships.
Box succeeds Erin O’Connell, who resigned in July after serving seven years in that position.
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• Joe Harvie of Orting fired a 2-under-par 69 to take the first-round lead in the Washington State Men’s Amateur Championship at Suncadia Resort in Cle Elum.
Harvie, a sophomore at Seattle University, was the only player in the 120-man field to break par on the par-71 layout.