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The NCAA News -- October 26, 1998

Division III Notes

Facilities: The University of Chicago has announced plans to build a $35 million athletics center and swimming pool on its Hyde Park campus. A gift of $15 million from Gerald Ratner, a senior partner at Chicago's Gould & Ratner law firm and a former varsity baseball player at the university, will help build the facility. The facility will house an Olympic-sized pool, a 2,500-seat gymnasium and fitness center, practice gyms, workout rooms, dance classrooms, locker rooms and offices ... Averett College officially opened its new athletics and convocation center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony October 17. The Grant Center is a $12.5 million project that has a 33,214-square-foot arena with three basketball courts and fixed seating for 1,000 spectators. With the addition of floor seating, the arena can seat 3,000 for graduation and special events. The facility includes a reception room, three classrooms, 13 offices, a 1,200-square-foot training room, a 1,200-square-foot fitness room, locker rooms, restrooms and laundry facilities.

Sports sponsorship: State University College at Buffalo will add women's ice hockey and begin play in the 1999-2000 season. The team will be coached by Bob Filighera, a Hamburg, New York, native who has been the head coach at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Filighera is a 1988 graduate of Buffalo State ... Salve Regina University has announced that it will add women's ice hockey as a varsity sport and begin play in 1999. The university also has announced a search for a head coach of the program.

Milestones: Larry Bock, Juniata College, 800 victories in women's volleyball. Bock has the most victories of any Division III women's volleyball coach and is third overall behind Andy Banachowski, the UCLA women's coach, and Al Scates, the UCLA men's coach.

-- Compiled by Kay Hawes