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The NCAA News - Briefly in the NewsDecember 20, 1999Good work for MIAC foursome
The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference had cause to toot its own horn this fall when the MIAC landed four football players on the 1999 American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team. The Good Works Team honors players who show exceptional dedication to community service and to the betterment of the communities in which they live. Two 11-person teams are selected Ñ one for Division I-A and one for Division I-AA, Division II, Division III and the NAIA combined. Those chosen from the MIAC were: Aaron Douglas, a junior defensive back from St. Olaf College; Greg Kaiser, a senior quarterback from the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota); Chico Rowland, a senior offensive lineman from Bethel College (Minnesota); and Nathan Schneeberger, a senior defensive lineman from Hamline University. ÒThe four young men selected are truly outstanding individuals,Ó said Carlyle Carter, executive director of the MIAC and a member of the Division III Management Council. ÒConsidering that there are approximately 17,000 football players at the Division III level alone, coupled with the thousands of Division I-AA, Division II and NAIA players who were eligible for this team, it is nearly impossible to imagine that four representatives from the same conference were selected.Ó Douglas actively participates in Project Red Wing, in which he visits juveniles at a detention center in Red Wing, Minnesota, and he also visits the Fairibault Humane Society, where he works with abandoned animals. Kaiser designs T-shirts for the St. Paul ChildrenÕs Hospital, and he volunteers at the St. JosephÕs Home for children. In the summer, he works as a youth baseball coach, and during the academic year he tutors students in the St. Thomas economics department. Rowland works with Habitat for Humanity, building houses for underprivileged families, and he also volunteers his time with the Twin Cities Outreach, tutoring children and counseling homeless adults. He was honored with the Horatio Alger National Award, which recognizes those individuals Òwho overcame adversity to achieve success.Ó Schneeberger volunteers for the Division of Indian Work in Minneapolis, where he tutors disadvantaged and at-risk Native American youth. He speaks to area high-school students, offering an introduction to college life, and he also participates in several neighborhood clean-up drives. ÒAll four of these young men are tremendous ambassadors for college athletics in general,Ó Carter said. ÒAnd they serve as outstanding examples of student-athletes of the MIAC.Ó
NCAS consortium setThe 2000 Annual Conference of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) will be January 30-February 1 at Walt Disney WorldÕs Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando. There will be multiple keynote speakers, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Nancy Lieberman-Cline and Eddie Robinson. The annual Giant Steps Awards Banquet and Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be February 1. This yearÕs hall of fame inductee is Muhammad Ali. For more information, contact Suzi Katz, NCAS regional director and conference coordinator, at 407/823-3555. The deadline to make hotel reservations is December 29. For hotel reservations, contact the Coronado Springs Resort at 407/934-7639. Can you top this?Some soccer teams have sets of brothers, but has anybody ever had all of them score in one game? The St. Francis College (New York) menÕs soccer team features two pairs of brothers: junior midfielder Besim Beskovic (who sat out last year as a medical redshirt) and his brother, junior defender Mersim Beskovic; and junior midfielder Agard Radoncic and his brother, sophomore forward Mersland Radoncic. On September 22, in a 5-2 win over Sacred Heart University, all four of the young men scored goals for St. Francis. St. Francis sports information director Jim Hoffman would like to know if anyone has ever heard of such a feat anywhere else. To contact Hoffman, send him an e-mail at jwhoffman@usa.net. ÑCompiled by Kay Hawes Number crunching
Fall Sports Championships
Schools with the most national titles in various fall team sports:
Football
(Does not include 1999)
Team No. Division
North Dakota St. -- 5 -- II
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