Richard Gibney, athletic director at Lehigh, was...

Richard Gibney, athletic director at Lehigh, was found dead in his campus office at Bethlehehm Pa., Tuesday night in what has been classified as a suicide.

A university spokesman said Northampton County Deputy Coroner Ed Madden listed the cause of death as “strangulation--voluntary death.” Gibney was 42.

Gibney became athletic director at Lehigh in November 1984 after serving for eight years as associate director of athletics at Syracuse.