ÉRIC VEILLEUX has been hired by the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant coach for their top minor-league affiliate, the Syracuse Crunch. Veilleux, 47, joins the hockey organization after serving as head coach for the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for the 2018-19 season. Under his guidance, the Mooseheads posted a 49-15-2-2 record, second-best in franchise history, and reached both the 2019 Rogers President Cup Final and Memorial Cup Championship. Prior to joining Halifax, Veilleux, a Quebec City native, spent two seasons as head coach for the San Antonio Rampage. He also spent one season as head coach of the Norfolk Admirals during their inaugural ECHL season, after making his professional coaching debut as an assistant with the Admirals in their final American Hockey League (AHL) season in 2014-15. As a player, Veilleux skated in 447 career AHL games as a forward with the Lowell Lock Monsters, Kentucky Thoroughblades, Hershey Bears, and Cornwall Aces — compiling 106 goals and 174 assists. He won the Calder Cup with Hershey in 1996-97.

DELISHA MILTON-JONES has joined the Syracuse women’s basketball program as an assistant coach. She will serve as the team’s recruiting coordinator. A former WNBA star player and two-time Olympic gold medalist, she began her collegiate coaching career in 2016 at Pepperdine University — first as an assistant before her promotion to head coach in 2017. Last season, she led the Waves to their first winning season since 2012 when they finished the season 22-12. Milton-Jones had a 17-year WNBA career, playing for five teams, including 11 seasons in Los Angeles. She helped the Sparks to back-to-back WNBA Championships in 2001 and 2002 and played in the postseason 10 times during her professional tenure. The fourth overall pick in the 1999 WNBA Draft by Los Angeles, Milton-Jones spent the first six years of her career with the Sparks until 2004 when she was traded. She announced her retirement in 2016 and ended her career with the ninth-most points scored in WNBA history. Milton-Jones also had a decorated overseas career playing for teams in Russia, Italy, the Czech Republic, Spain, Turkey, and Korea. As a member of the U.S. national team, she won gold medals in both the 2000 and 2008 Olympics Milton-Jones helped the U.S. to a pair of FIBA World Championships in 1998 and 2002. She was a four-year letter-winner at Florida from 1993-1997 and led the Gators to four straight NCAA Tournament appearances. 

MICHAEL RYAN has joined SRC, Inc. as its assistant VP of business development. In this new role, he will be responsible for supporting new and existing business with the U.S. Army. Ryan has more than 35 years of experience in the defense industry, working with the Army to provide critical expertise in program management. Prior to joining SRC, he worked as director, cyber electromagnetic activity at Woodbridge, New Jersey–based DHPC Technologies, where he was responsible for overseeing business activities in the cyber, electronic warfare, spectrum, and intelligence domains. Ryan also served as the deputy project manager, electronic warfare and cyber, for the program executive office intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors (PEO IEW&S) at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and earlier at Fort Monmouth in New Jersey.