Mark Salisbury, who guided Central Michigan University to the past five Mid-American Conference tournaments, has been hired as Idaho State's women's soccer coach.
Salisbury, 36, takes over for Gordon Henderson, who left Pocatello in mid-December to take charge at Arkansas. Henderson led the Bengals to the NCAA tournament the past three seasons.
Salisbury, who started Central Michigan's women's soccer program in 1998 following three seasons as men's and women's coach at Missouri-Rolla, was 56-52-11 in six seasons with the Chippewas. His 2003 team went 9-8-3 and reached the MAC semifinals.
Assistant coach Tony DiTucci will guide Central Michigan's team on an interim basis.
In other college women's soccer coaching news:
— Arkansas State has hired Jason Wharton as head coach to replace Ken Hefner, who was relieved of his duties in November following four seasons in charge. The Lady Indians were 19-54-1 during Hefner's tenure, 7-12-0 last fall. Wharton arrives from Cisco (Texas) Junior College, where he went 60-16-3 in four seasons. He previously was head coach at NCAA Division III school Hardin-Simmons.
— Vermont announced four finalists for its head women's soccer coach opening. They are Boston University assistant coach David Bucciero, Utah State head coach Heather Cairns, Maryland assistant coach Kerry Dziczkaniec and Wisconsin assistant coach Zac Shaw.