Minnesota-Duluth offensive coordinator Curt Wiese has been appointed the Bulldogs' new head football coach, while longtime UMD athletic department staff member Karen Stromme will assume the role of interim athletic director.
Those two positions were previously held by Bob Nielson, who resigned from UMD earlier this week to take over as the head football coach at Division I Western Illinois.
Wiese, 36, who becomes just the sixth head coach in the 80-year history of Bulldog football, joined the Duluth staff on Feb. 12, 2008. During his five years as commander of UMD's offense, the Bulldogs finished near the top of the NCAA II leaderboard four times in scoring.
Stromme is in her 30th year with UMD athletics and since 2003-04 has served as its assistant athletic director and senior woman administrator. Over the course of her 21 years as head coach with the Bulldog women's basketball program, Stromme compiled a 440-184 overall record and posted 21 consecutive winning seasons.