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May 4, 1997

First Jostens winners named

Alicia Moore of Emory University and Michael Nogelo of Williams College have been awarded the first-ever Jostens Trophy, which recognizes the most outstanding Division III basketball student-athletes.

The award is a joint creation of Jostens Inc. of Minneapolis and the Rotary Club of Salem, Virginia. The purpose of the award is to honor the Division III basketball players who show "excellence in the classroom, on the playing court and in the community."

Moore and Nogelo will also be honored with the Wooldridge Scholarship, a $1,000 scholarship given to their institutions in their names. The scholarship is named after Dan Wooldridge, a Salem Rotarian and retired commissioner of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference who is known for his longtime commit-ment to Division III athletics.

Moore, a senior forward and Palm Bay, Florida, native, is a biology/premedicine major.

One of only two upperclassmen on the Emory squad, Moore led her team in scoring and rebounding for the third consecutive season. Moore also holds the school record for career points, rebounds, blocked shots and free throws.

Moore is a member of Delta Phi Epsilon, a national medical fraternity, and she volunteers in the neonatal unit of Egleston Children's Hospital. She also works with a local chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation as an academic tutor for children who have the disease.

Nogelo, a senior forward and native of Sudbury, Massachusetts, is a double major in English and psychology.

Nogelo led his team in scoring and rebounding, and he is Williams' all-time leading scorer.

Nogelo volunteers his time to 11-year-old Scott Beattie as part of the Big Sib program at Williams, and he has also helped build houses as part of a local Habitat for Humanity program.

Great 'Vinyl Floor'

The Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Times recently gave its readers a chuckle when it reported this story.

Michael Brown, pastor of the local Central United Methodist Church, had a meal with some out-of-town guests, and the conversation turned to the Division I men's basketball tournament.

The group chatted at length about the teams involved and their chances to win the championship. As the conversation continued, one elderly gentleman became more and more confused.

Then he finally said what was on his mind. "What's all this about a vinyl floor?"

Hit man

Muhlenberg College senior first baseman Steve Faella is getting into the record books the hard way.

During a double-header at Western Maryland College recently, Faella was hit by a pitch three times for the second time this season. That feat had been previously accomplished only twice before in school history and, entering this year, only 14 times in Division III history. It had never been done by the same player, not to mention twice in 10 days.

In the second game, Faella was hit once more, setting a new school record of 14 HPBs in a season. Faella's career HBP total is 26.

Faella may have taken some pointers from his roommate Brad Collins, who has broken the Muhlenberg HBP record three times in the last three years. Also a senior, Collins entered the 1998 season tied for 13th in Division III history with 31 career HPBs, but he decided not to play this year.

With only 76 plate appearances to date and 14 games remaining on the schedule, Faella has a chance to put a real dent in the record, provided he doesn't get too many dents himself.

Jacksonville receives award

The Jacksonville University athletics department recently received an Eddy Award from the Duval County Public Education Foundation.

The Eddy Awards were established to reward exemplary performance by educators, business leaders and organizations in north Florida.

Jacksonville received its award for its business-school partnership with Arlington Elementary School.

As part of the partnership, 44 student-athletes from the university contributed more than 500 hours of service to the school.

--Compiled by Kay Hawes

Looking back

5 years ago: The NCAA Executive Committee begins the search for a new executive director of the Association following the May 11, 1993, resignation of Richard D. Schultz. The Executive Committee announces plans to form a search committee, which is expected to meet for the first time in early June 1993. Schultz resigns after the release of a report by an independent fact-finder who was retained by the NCAA Committee on Infractions to assess Schultz's knowledge of improper loans that were made to student-athletes at the University of Virginia while he was the school's athletics director. Schultz emphatically disagreed with the fact-finder's conclusion that Schultz knew of at least some of the loans, but said he decided to step down out of concern for the Association's credibility as a governing body in intercollegiate athletics. "I believe I have contributed to a number of positive changes for college athletics," Schultz said in his resignation statement. "One of my major goals was to establish a high level of credibility for the NCAA, its processes and programs. We have achieved that goal, and I don't want to contribute to the destruction of something that I have worked so hard for." (The NCAA News, May 12 and 26, 1993)

10 years ago: The NCAA Executive Committee approves budgets for minority and women's enhancement programs during its May 2-3, 1988, meeting in Kansas City, Missouri. The program will feature 20 $6,000 postgraduate scholarships -- 10 each for women and members of ethnic minorities. "Vita banks" for each group will be established and maintained at the national office, and internships (three each for women and ethnic minorities) also will be established in the NCAA office. (The NCAA News, May 4, 1988)

15 years ago: As of May 1983, one year into efforts to promote women's intercollegiate athletics, member institutions already began seeing results. The Executive Committee allotted $300,000 to promote women's sports, targeting everything from television exposure to bumper stickers. The most visible efforts included televising the Division I Women's Basketball Championship and other women's championships; a weekly nationwide radio program; and a two-day press conference on women's basketball held in January in New York. (The NCAA News, June 1, 1983)