Facilities: West Liberty State College recently dedicated a new $10.5 million Academic, Sports and Recreation Complex. The facility connects two existing buildings with a new four-level, 70,000-square-foot structure and features a 28,000-square-foot arena. The complex also includes an athletics weight training center, team rooms, athletics and physical education offices, a multipurpose conference center, classrooms, laboratories and a fitness/wellness center. West Virginia Gov. Cecil Underwood presided over the ribbon cutting October 14.

Milestones: Jack Mackenzie, Quincy University, 400 career coaching victories in men's soccer. He became the ninth men's soccer coach to reach the 400-victory level. He has coached at Quincy for 32 years ... Rhonda Thigpen, Henderson State University, 300 career victories in volleyball at Henderson State, where she has coached since 1990.

Sports sponsorship: Westminster College (Pennsylvania) will add three new varsity women's sports -- golf, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field -- for the 2001-02 academic year, bringing the total number of sports fielded by the school to 20 (10 for men and 10 for women).

Miscellaneous: Andreea Cotoranu of Pace University, a freshman from Romania, established a Division II record with 61 kills in a five-game match against New York Institute of Technology October 23. Her 115 attempts was one short of a Division II record ... A total of 21 candidates are in the running for the 2000 Harlon Hill Trophy as the NCAA Division II College football player of the year. The winner of the 2000 award, which is presented by the National Harlon Hill Award Committee, will be announced at the 15th annual Harlon Hill Trophy Presentation Banquet December 8 at the Florence (Alabama) Conference Center. Among the players vying for the 2000 award are quarterback Jason Barnett of the University of New Haven; junior defensive end Todd DeVree of Hillsdale College; senior wide receiver Brian Dolph of Saginaw Valley State University; senior quarterback Drew Folmar of Millersville University of Pennsylvania; senior quarterback Randy McKavish of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; junior quarterback Dusty Bonner of Valdosta State University; junior quarterback Todd Cunningham of Presbyterian College; senior wide receiver Gerald Payne of Harding University; senior linebacker Danielle Rollins of the University of Arkansas, Monticello; junior wide receiver Kent Schoolfield of Fort Valley State University; senior wide receiver Damon Thompson of Virginia State University; junior tailback Lamar Gordon of North Dakota State University; senior wide receiver Lester McCoy of Emporia State University; senior wide receiver Tony Miles of Northwest Missouri State University; senior running back Tyrone Morgan of Northern State University; senior tailback Adam Wright of the University of Nebraska, Omaha; senior quarterback Justin Coleman of the University of Nebraska at Kearney; junior tailback Damian Everette of Northeastern State University; senior center Robert Garza of Texas A&M University-Kingsville; senior running back DeWayne Miles of West Texas A&M University; and junior quarterback J.T. O'Sullivan of the University of California, Davis.

-- Compiled by David Pickle