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The NCAA News - The NCAA RecordMay 6, 1996
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Dennehy named football coach at MontanaMontana promoted Michael "Mick" Dennehy from offensive coordinator and offensive line coach to head football coach, replacing Don Read, who announced his retirement April 15 after 10 years at Montana.A native of Butte, Montana, Dennehy was head coach at Western Montana from 1988 to 1990. He led that team to a 5-3 record in his final year there and earned Frontier Conference coach-of-the-year honors. Dennehy was a safety for the Grizzlies in 1971 and 1972, and led the conference in 1972 with 10 interceptions. He returned to the school in 1991 to coach the offensive line. Under Dennehy's guidance, Montana ranked first in the country in total offense and passing offense and also led Division I-AA in scoring while winning the 1995 NCAA championship. The Grizzly offensive line last season had three first-team all-Big Sky Conference selections and an honorable-mention pick. Dennehy started his coaching career at Colton High School in Washington and has 23 years of coaching experience, including nine at the collegiate level. Dennehy's son, Jake, is a junior safety at Montana and another son, Mark, will be a freshman receiver/defensive back for the Grizzlies this fall.
GENERALCHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Lincoln Memorial extended the contract of Scott D. Miller through 2000. Miller has been president since 1991 ... Lt. Gen. Howard D. Graves, superintendent at Army, announced his retirement, effective June 24. He will be succeeded by Lt. Gen. Daniel W. Christman, a member of the staff of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... Leroy Davis selected as president at South Carolina State. He was interim president ... LeMoyne-Owen appointed George R. Johnson Jr. as president. Johnson was associate dean and professor of law at Howard ... Joan R. Leitzel, interim chancellor and professor of mathematics at Nebraska, named president at New Hampshire, effective July 15 ... Heidelberg appointed Richard H. Owens as president, effective July 1. Owens was vice-president for university advancement at Lewis ... James R. Phifer, acting president of Coe, selected as president. DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Ted Keller announced his retirement after 14 years as athletics director at Randolph-Macon. Keller will remain as the school's golf coach and booster club director. He has been associated with Randolph-Macon as a player, coach or administrator for 42 years and is the school's most-victorious football coach ... Denver hired Joel Maturi. Maturi has been on the athletics staff at Wisconsin since 1987 and has been associate athletics administrator there since 1992 ... After 15 years as athletics director, Ralph Barkey of Sonoma State announced his retirement, effective December 31. Barkey was hired as AD in 1981. He also was basketball coach at UC Santa Barbara for 18 years ... Lynn Tubman, athletics director at La Roche, appointed as associate director of athletics at Drexel, where she will be responsible for scheduling and compliance. She also was women's basketball coach at La Roche ... Phil Rowe resigned at Daniel Webster to accept the head men's basketball coaching position at Keene State. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Mary Curtis hired as associate athletics director for women's athletics at Iowa. ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF ATHLETICS Robert Mullens, senior business manager at Miami (Florida), appointed assistant director of athletics for business at Maryland. Mullens was chief budget officer for the athletics department at Miami ... Springfield announced the retirement of Frank Wolcott. COACHES BASEBALL--LeMoyne announced the retirement of Dick Rockwell and the promotion of assistant coach John King to fill the vacancy. MEN'S BASKETBALL--Howie Dickenman appointed at Central Connecticut State, where he earned all-America honors as a player. Dickenman was assistant basketball coach at Connecticut for the past 14 seasons ... The contract of Mississippi State's Richard Williams was extended through 2000. Williams, who has a 10-year record of 164-130, led the Bulldogs to their first Final Four appearance this year ... Central Missouri State hired Don Doucette, athletics director and head men's basketball coach at Chaminade for the past three years. He led the men's program at North Carolina-Asheville from 1988 to 1993 ... Steve Hawkins, head coach at Quincy, given a new four-year contract ... Jim Casciano hired at King's (Pennsylvania) to replace Ken Atkins, who resigned. Casciano spent the past three seasons as head coach at Valley Forge Military College ... Illinois College appointed Mike Worrell head coach. Worrell was an assistant coach at Wooster for the past six years ... Phil Rowe hired at Keene State after serving as athletics director at Daniel Webster. Rowe also has coached at Boston U. and Plymouth State ... Shannon Hays hired at Abilene Christian. MEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Mike Schauer, part-time assistant at Wheaton (Illinois), promoted to full-time assistant after three years on the staff. Schauer replaces Jerry Gilsdorf, who was named head men's basketball coach at Gordon ... North Carolina-Charlotte selected Butch Pierre as assistant coach. Pierre is a veteran of eight years at Southwestern Louisiana, where he was head assistant coach ... Chuck Swenson appointed at Penn State. He spent the last two seasons as director of basketball operations at Duke and was head coach at William and Mary for seven years before that. Saint Louis hired Jay Spoonhour, replacing Donn Parr, who accepted a full-time assistant's position at Wichita State. Spoonhour was a graduate assistant at Central Missouri State ... Texas A&M named Eddie Molitor Jr. as assistant coach ... Tony Hopper named volunteer assistant coach at Kentucky Wesleyan ... Utah State named Steve Burnes as associate head coach and Leonard Perry as assistant coach ... Houston Fancher and Lavell Hall appointed at Appalachian State. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL--La Roche's Lynn Tubman resigned to become associate athletics director at Drexel. Tubman also was athletics director at La Roche ... Debbie Patterson, a top assistant and recruiting coordinator at Vanderbilt, hired to head the Kansas State squad. Patterson was on the Vanderbilt staff for four years ... Nell Fortner named at Purdue. Fortner is assistant coach for the 1996 USA National Team in women's basketball and will return to that position in July until the end of the Olympic Games in Atlanta. Fortner was an assistant at Louisiana Tech from 1991 to 1995 ... Upper Iowa appointed Bill Wilson to replace Linda Olson, who resigned. Wilson was an assistant at Slippery Rock last year and was an assistant for the men's team there from 1989 to 1993 ... St. Mary's (Minnesota) head coach Lois Heeren resigned to become an assistant coach at Air Force. Heeren led the St. Mary's squad for three years ... Jodi Kest hired at Gannon ... Tina Kuhle named at Clarke. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL ASSISTANTS--Tim Eatman hired at South Alabama ... Xavier (Ohio) named Tricia Cullop as an assistant. Cullop has coached at Long Beach State and Radford and was team captain as a forward on the Purdue squad. WOMEN'S CREW--Jennifer Hale hired at Kansas State. FOOTBALL--Assistant coach/defensive coordinator Andy Gibbons appointed to take over the program at Knox from Randy Oberembt, who resigned to become athletics director at St. Louis (Missouri) Country Day School, effective in July. Gibbons joined the Knox staff in 1991 as an assistant coach and was promoted to defensive coordinator in 1993. Over the past 11 seasons, Oberembt guided Knox to a record of 41-56-1 ... Ron Taylor given a four-year contract extension at Quincy. FOOTBALL ASSISTANTS--Wayne State (Nebraska) named Mike Criner as a graduate assistant coach working with wide receivers. He replaces Gary Garabato, who was named offensive coordinator at St. John Fisher ... Tony Ierulli hired at Shippensburg as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. Ierulli was linebackers coach and recruiting coordinator at Samford before spending last season in the front office of the Birmingham Barracudas of the Canadian Football League ... Larry Johnson, a high-school football coach for more than 20 years in Maryland and Virginia, appointed to the Penn State defensive staff working with defensive ends ... Rusty Russell selected as inside linebackers coach at Youngstown State ... Northern Iowa appointed Mike Garrison as running backs coach ... Wilkes named Aaron Menapace as full-time assistant coach and Ben McKeown and John Monfiletto as part-time assistants. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S SOCCER--St. John Fisher appointed Rob Searl as head of the men's program. Searl was head coach at Nazareth for 16 years ... Paul Lester named head women's coach at UC Santa Cruz, replacing Cori Huston, who resigned. Most recently, Lester led Canada Community College's women's team to the Coast Conference playoffs. He was an assistant at Santa Clara in 1993 and 1994 ... Jack Mackenzie given a new three-year contract at Quincy ... McNeese State selected Ronald Savoie as head women's coach ... Roy Patton appointed to head the men's program at Vermont ... DePaul hired Laure Schingen as head coach for the women's team, which will begin its inaugural season in August. Schingen has been head women's coach at St. Benedict since 1993. WOMEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANT--LSU selected Gregg Boggs as assistant for the women's team. WOMEN'S SOFTBALL--Fran Vandermeer hired at Trinity (Connecticut) as head women's softball and volleyball coach. Vandermeer also will teach in the physical education department. She was head softball and volleyball coach at St. Joseph's (Connecticut). WOMEN'S SWIMMING AND DIVING--Iowa selected Mary Bolich as head of the swimming and diving program. Bolich was assistant coach at Penn State for the past seven years ... Maureen Isaac resigned as women's coach at Eastern Michigan. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TENNIS--Georgia Southern's Joe Blankenbaker announced his retirement after 21 seasons. Blankenbaker compiled a 317-146 record, including the 1994 Southern Conference tournament crown. He assumed duties for the women's team last September. Blankenbaker will continue to teach in the sport science and physical education department ... Elon announced the resignation of Herb Bolick as women's coach. MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD--Minnesota appointed former Golden Gopher all-American and two-time U.S. Olympian Steve Plasencia to head the men's program. Plasencia ran in the 10,000 meters at both the 1988 and 1992 Olympics and will attempt to qualify for the 1996 event. He was director of sports respiratory medicine for Allergy & Asthma Associates in Eugene, Oregon. MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD ASSISTANT--Colleen Huffman hired as an assistant coach at West Virginia Wesleyan. WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL--Fran Vandermeer hired at Trinity (Connecticut) as head volleyball coach. Vandermeer also will teach in the physical education department and coach women's softball. She was head softball and volleyball coach at St. Joseph's (Connecticut). WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL ASSISTANT--Matt Sonnichsen named assistant coach at Iowa, replacing Patty Dowdell, who was named head volleyball coach at Texas Woman's. WRESTLING--Wisconsin renewed the contract of Barry Davis. STAFF ATHLETICS TRAINER--Greg Graff appointed athletics trainer at Kansas State ... Georgia Southern announced the resignation of J. C. Anderson as trainer and the promotion of assistant trainer Dennis Gruber to the post. BUSINESS MANAGER--Robert Mullens, senior business manager at Miami (Florida), appointed assistant athletics director for business at Maryland. SOCCER OPERATIONS DIRECTOR--Louis Bennett selected as director of soccer operations at Wisconsin-Green Bay. SPORTS INFORMATION ASSISTANT--Bowling Green announced the resignation of Kelli Gossens, effective June 14. She has held the position since it was created in August 1985. CONFERENCES Gregg Fort, Soutland Conference director of public relations, resigned to become the first executive director of the Lubbock (Texas) Sports Authority. Fort joined the conference in 1995 after serving as director of sports information and marketing at Stephen F. Austin for five years.
ETC.CONFERENCE MEMBERS The Atlantic 10 Conference added West Chester as an associate member in field hockey, effective with the 1996-97 academic year. West Chester joins La Salle, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, St. Joseph's (Pennsylvania) and Temple as field hockey members of the conference. SEMINARS The 1996 Technical Meeting of the United States Tennis Court & Track Builders Association will be November 16-19 in New Orleans. The meeting offers general and technical sessions targeted to tennis court builders, track builders, design professionals and business managers. Additional information can be obtained from the association's headquarters, 720 Light Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230-3816; telephone 410/752-3500; fax 410/752-8295. DIRECTORY CHANGES
Active--University of Alaska Fairbanks: Gerald F. Shields (F) -- Professor, Biology and Wildlife, 907/474-7656; American University: Lee McElroy (AD); Armstrong State University: Eddie Aenchbacher (Acting AD), new phone numbers -- (F) 912/927-5304, (AD) 912/921-5854, (SWA) -- 912/ Provisional--East Texas Baptist University: Darlene E. Wengert (SWA) -- Head Volleyball Coach, 903/935-7963, Ext. 428; Oklahoma Panhandle State University: John W. Goodwin (P); Schreiner College: J. Thompson Biggers (P) -- 210/896-5411, Ext. 226. Affiliated -- Division I-A Athletics Directors Association: Gene Hooks, 34 Sunrise Point, River Hills, Lake Wylie, South Carolina 29710, 803/831-6700 (Exec. Dir.).
NOTABLESThe Basketball Hall of Fame awarded its electronic and print Curt Gowdy Media Awards to Billy Packer of CBS Sports and Bob Hentzen of the Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Journal. Packer, who played for Wake Forest and later was an assistant coach there, has covered 22 NCAA basketball tournaments as an analyst, the last 14 for CBS. Hentzen was a columnist for the Capital-Journal for 38 years and sports editor for 28 of those years before retiring in March. He covered his first Final Four in 1964 and has been a fixture at the tournament since 1973.Doug McBride named player of the week by the American Volleyball Coaches Association after leading Lewis to its first Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Assocition tournament championship and appearance in the National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship. The junior setter hit .733 (23-1-30) and averaged 18.18 assists, 2.1 kills, 1.45 blocks and 1.27 digs per game for the week.
DEATHSLeo Strang, former Kent football coach and a two-time champion high-school coach, died April 16 in Akron, Ohio. He was 73. Strang coached at Kent from 1964 to 1967, compiling a four-season record of 16-21-1.Former football coach Ed Kluska, whose Xavier (Ohio) team beat Arizona State to win the Salad Bowl in 1950, died April 20 in Cincinnati. He was 79. Kluska was a member of Xavier's athletics hall of fame and was an all-Ohio end at the school before graduating in 1939. He was the Musketeers' coach from 1947 to 1954. --Compiled by Sally Huggins
POLLSDivision I Baseball The USA Today/Baseball Weekly top 25 NCAA Division I baseball teams through April 21 as selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association, with records in parentheses and points: 1. Cal St. Fullerton (38-6) 802 2. Southern Cal (34-10) 793 3. Wichita St. (32-6) 762 4. Florida St. (37-8) 709 5. LSU (36-9) 702 6. Texas Tech (37-9) 642 7. Florida (33-11) 577 8. Clemson (34-10) 568 9. Miami (Fla.) (31-10) 484 10. Tennessee (29-12) 481 11. South Fla. (36-9) 469 12. Cal St. Northridge (39-12) 456 13. Alabama (31-14) 425 14. Ga. Southern (35-9) 339 15. Texas (32-16) 335 16. Arkansas (33-12) 322 17. North Caro. St. (35-12) 306 18. UCLA (25-17) 265 19. Stanford (27-17) 238 20. Oklahoma St. (28-15) 142 21. Missouri (30-12) 141 22. Rice (32-15) 122 23. UNLV (35-14) 82 24. Long Beach St. (28-17) 64 25. South Ala. (30-13) 59 Division II Baseball The Collegiate Baseball top 25 NCAA Division II baseball teams through April 22, with records in parentheses and points: 1. Delta St. (43-5) 480 2. UC Riverside (34-9) 462 3. Fla. Southern (38-10) 448 4. St. Joseph's (Ind.) (34-8) 426 5. Columbus (32-8) 424 6. Mo.-St. Louis (31-5) 396 7. Kennesaw St. (35-14) 380 8. Ala.-Huntsville (34-14) 376 9. Lewis (35-10) 352 10. St. Leo (38-10) 336 11. Cal St. Dom. Hills (28-14) 306 12. Central Mo. St. (35-10) 294 13. New Haven (20-2) 282 14. Mercyhurst (26-5) 268 15. Lincoln Memorial (35-15) 244 16. Abilene Christian (35-12) 240 17. Tampa (35-12) 232 18. St. Rose (29-9-1) 204 19. Mansfield (22-11) 192 20. Southern Colo. (30-15) 172 21. North Ala. (35-11) 166 22. Slippery Rock (21-14) 124 23. Mesa St. (30-13) 120 24. Mount Olive (38-7) 106 25. Wingate (29-15) 100 Division III Baseball The Collegiate Baseball top 30 NCAA Division III baseball teams through April 21 as selected by the American Baseball Coaches Association, with records in parentheses and points: 1. Methodist (28-5) 235 2. Cal Lutheran (25-7-1) 221 3. Marietta (26-7) 217 3. Carthage (23-5) 217 5. Wm. Paterson (21-4-1) 207 6. St. Thomas (Minn.) (23-3) 199 7. Southern Me. (18-7-1) 195 8. Rensselaer (18-2) 184 9. Ferrum (29-7-1) 162 10. Wis.-Oshkosh (19-3) 158 11. Allentown (25-6) 145 12. Brandeis (19-10) 141 13. William Penn (25-4) 140 14. Cortland St. (21-4) 136 15. Wittenberg (21-5) 133 16. Claremont-M-S (24-12) 119 17. N.C. Wesleyan (25-11) 115 18. Allegheny (24-7) 106 19. AlbLEFT (24-5-1) 82 19. La Verne (23-9) 82 21. MacMurray (27-9) 75 22. Amherst (16-6) 68 23. Oswego St. (17-6) 61 24. Millsaps (27-6) 48 25. York (Pa.) (22-8) 47 26. Eastern Conn. St. (19-9) 45 27. Wis.-Whitewater (13-11) 40 28. Wooster (27-9) 27 29. Bri'water (Mass.) (16-6) 20 30. Southwestern (Tex.) (31-10) 17 Division I Men's Lacrosse The top 20 NCAA Division I men's lacrosse teams through April 22 as selected by the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, with records in parentheses and points: 1. Princeton (8-1) 198 2. North Caro. (12-3) 189 3. Virginia (9-3) 178 4. Maryland (8-2) 175 5. Johns Hopkins (5-3) 160 6. Syracuse (8-3) 149 7. Brown (6-4) 136 8. Loyola (Md.) (6-4) 121 9. Bucknell (10-0) 120 10. Harvard (6-2) 108 11. Notre Dame (7-3) 94 12. Massachusetts (6-4) 92 13. Georgetown (7-3) 79 14. Duke (5-6) 63 15. Penn St. (9-2) 52 16. Army (6-4) 51 17. Yale (6-5) 37 18. Hofstra (5-4) 32 19. Towson St. (6-4) 29 20. Hobart (5-5) 11 Division I Women's Lacrosse The Brine top 15 NCAA Division I women's lacrosse teams through April 22 as listed by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association, with records: 1. Maryland, 12-0; 2. Loyola (Maryland), 14-0; 3. Virginia, 10-3; 4. Princeton, 11-1; 5. Penn State, 10-3; 6. William and Mary, 10-5; 7. Old Dominion, 8-7; 8. James Madison, 8-7; 9. Delaware, 7-6; 10. Georgetown, 10-2; 11. Yale, 8-2; 12. Dartmouth, 7-4; 13. Temple, 8-5; 14. Brown, 8-3; 15. North Carolina, 10-4. Division II Men's Lacrosse The top 10 NCAA Division II men's lacrosse teams through April 22 as selected by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, with records in parentheses and points: 1. New York Tech (9-0) 80 2. Adelphi (5-4) 72 3. LIU-C. W. Post (7-3) 63 4. Sacred Heart (7-2) 55 5. St. Andrews (4-6) 47 6. West Chester (8-3) 32 7. Bentley (10-2) 30 8. LIU-Southampton (7-3) 23 9. Pfeiffer (NA) 18 10. Limestone (6-5) 12 Division II Women's Lacrosse The Brine top three NCAA Division II women's lacrosse teams through April 22 as listed by the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association, with records in parentheses and points: 1. West Chester, 6-5; 2. Shippensburg, 6-4; 3. East Stroudsburg, 6-2. Division III Men's Lacrosse The top 20 NCAA Division II men's lacrosse teams through April 22 as selected by the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association, with records in parentheses and points: 1. Salisbury St. (12-0) 240 2. Nazareth (9-0) 228 3. Ohio Wesleyan (9-2) 214 4. Denison (8-3) 199 5. Middlebury (9-0) 196 6. Washington (Md.) (8-4) 180 7. Frank. & Marsh. (9-3) 169 8. Cortland St. (8-4) 152 9. Roanoke (9-3) 144 10. Rochester Inst. (5-3) 129 11. Wash. & Lee (7-4) 124 12. Gettysburg (7-4) 113 13. Alfred (8-3) 89 14. Hartwick (6-5) 80 15. Williams (6-1) 64 16. Springfield (4-5) 42 17. St. Lawrence (6-5) 40 18. Whittier (15-0) 29 19. Hampden-Sydney (10-3) 27 20. Oswego St. (7-3) 18 Division III Women's Lacrosse The Brine top 15 NCAA Division III women's lacrosse teams through April 22 as listed by the Intercollegiate Womenís Lacrosse Coaches Association, with records: 1. Trenton State, 9-0; 2. Williams, 9-0; 3. Ursinus, 10-1; 4. Tufts, 8-2; 5. Connecticut College, 9-1; 6. Middlebury, 8-1; 7. William Smith, 9-2; 8. Trinity (Connecticut), 4-3; 9. Roanoke, 10-2; 10. Amherst, 6-3; 11. Goucher, 14-1; 12. Hartwick, 7-3; 13. Cortland State, 9-2; 14. Mary Washington, 11-4; 15. Johns Hopkins, 6-4. Men's and Women's Rifle The final top 20 NCAA men's and women's rifle teams as listed by the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association: 1. West Virginia, 2. Air Force, 3. Kentucky, 4. Navy, 5. Alaska Fairbanks, 6. Xavier (Ohio), 7. Murray State, 8. Jacksonville State, 9. Tennessee Tech, 10. St. John's (New York), 11. UTEP, 12. Norwich, 13. Tennessee-Martin, 14. King's (Pennsylvania), 15. Canisius, 16. Marquette, 17. Duquesne, 18. Wyoming, 19. Coast Guard, 20. MIT. Division I Women's Softball The top seven NCAA Division I women's softball teams in each region through April 24: Northeast: 1. Massachusetts, 2. Princeton, 3. Hofstra, 4. Connecticut, 5. Rutgers, 6. Boston U., 7. Temple. Mideast: 1. Michigan, 2. Iowa, 3. Notre Dame, 4. Indiana, 5. Illinois-Chicago, 6. Minnesota, 7. DePaul. Midwest: 1. Oklahoma, 2. Nebraska, 3. Texas A&M, 4. Oklahoma State, 5. Drake, 6. Missouri, 7. Illinois State. South: 1. Southwestern Louisiana, 2. South Carolina, 3. South Florida, 4. Florida State, 5. Louisiana Tech, 6. Nicholls State, 7. North Carolina. West: 1. Fresno State, 2. UNLV, 3. Cal State Fullerton, 4. Long Beach State, 5. Utah State, 6. Utah, 7. New Mexico State. Pacific: 1. Washington, 2. Arizona, 3. UCLA, 4. Cal State Northridge, 5. California, 6. Cal State Sacramento, 7. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Division III Men's Outdoor Track and Field The top 25 NCAA Division III men's outdoor track and field teams through April 25 as determined by the United States Track Coaches Association, with power ranking: 1. Williams, 201.6; 2. Augustana (Illinois), 184.3; 3. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 182.6; 4. Nebraska Wesleyan, 179.0; 5. Fredonia State, 168.0; 6. Monmouth (Illinois), 164.7; 7. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 161.9; 8. Wisconsin-Platteville, 159.5; 9. Carthage, 158.7; 10. Methodist, 156.5; 11. Lynchburg, 155.3; 12. Emory, 151.3; 13. Wartburg, 150.3; 14. Thiel, 149.6; 15. St. Lawrence, 142.0; 16. Simpson, 138.9; 17. Montclair State, 114.6; 18. Swarthmore, 114.2; 19. Alfred, 113.6; 20. Bridgewater (Virginia), 108.0; 21. Beloit, 98.4; 22. Dickinson, 90.0; 23. New York University, 83.0; 24. Hartwick, 74.6; 25. Mary Washington, 61.9. Division III Women's Outdoor Track and Field The top 25 NCAA Division III women's outdoor track and field teams through April 25 as determined by the United States Track Coaches Association, with power ranking: 1. Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 183.9; 2. Wisconsin-La Crosse, 177.5; 3. Williams, 155.3; 4. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 147.9; 5. Wartburg, 142.3; 6. Augustana (Illinois), 138.6; 7. Pomona-Pitzer, 132.6; 8. Nebraska Wesleyan, 127.7; 9. (tie) Carthage and Emory, 123.9; 11. Monmouth (Illinois), 122.6; 12. St. Lawrence, 117.5; 13. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 116.4; 14. Lynchburg, 112.6; 15. Ithaca, 108.6; 16. Thiel, 100.4; 17. Concordia-Moorhead, 91.7; 18. Dickinson, 89.1; 19. Wisconsin-Platteville, 82.7; 20. Swarthmore, 78.7; 21. Methodist, 77.6; 22. Simpson, 69.2; 23. Beloit, 67.1; 24. Hartwick, 59.5; 25. Eastern Mennonite, 52.0. Men's Volleyball The USA Today/American Volleyball Coaches Association top 15 NCAA men's volleyball teams through April 23, with records in parentheses and points: 1. Hawaii (26-1) 240 2. UCLA (22-5) 222 3. UC Santa Barb. (16-7) 203 4. Long Beach St. (21-6) 180 5. Cal St. Northridge (16-11) 174 6. Lewis (31-4) 149 7. Stanford (15-8) 144 8. Penn St. (24-5) 138 9. Ball St. (28-7) 106 10. Pacific (Cal.) (17-10) 103 11. Pepperdine (15-11) 89 12. Ohio St. (23-7) 72 13. Southern Cal (10-12) 41 14. Brigham Young (8-12) 34 15. Princeton (19-3) 20 |