Sports sponsorship: New Hampshire College will offer men's and women's tennis and golf as varsity sports, effective this fall. The additions mean New Hampshire College will sponsor 16 varsity sports in 2000-01, eight for each gender. The tennis program will be led by Brian Horan, while Jozef Maston will head up the golf team. "Going into the Northeast-10 Conference will present tremendous challenges for the tennis and golf programs," said athletics director Chip Polak, "but I have the utmost confidence in both Brian and Joe and their ability to recruit quality student-athletes to the college."

Miscellaneous: New Hampshire College will change its name to Southern New Hampshire University, beginning July 1, 2001. President Richard A. Gustafson said the change "is the result of more than a decade of institutional enrollment growth, expansion of academic programs and significant campus enhancements" ... Sixteen regional winners of the inaugural NCAA Division II Conference Commissioners Association Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award have been announced. A male and female Division II Scholar-Athlete of the Year will be selected from the regional winners, eight men and eight women. The new award, sponsored by Disney's Wide World of Sports complex, provides the opportunity for Division II to highlight the extraordinary achievements of its student-athletes. Division II CCA President Tom Brown, commissioner of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, said: "The award showcases to the country what we have known all along: Division II has the best of both worlds --great athletes and great students." The eight men's regional winners are Joseph Borges, University of California, Davis; Tony Cappola, University of Montevallo; Assaf Dagai, Southern Connecticut State University; Tim Kusniez, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Kevin Listerman, Northern Kentucky University; Corte McGuffey, University of Northern Colorado; Lutz Perner, Francis Marion University; and Jason Reinberg, Truman State University. The women's regional winners are Anne Bentley, Ferris State University; Lucinda Ann Brown, Virginia Union University; Jayne Even, North Dakota State University; Bess Greenberg, State University of New York at Binghamton; Adrianne Harlow, West Liberty State College; Lilian Liu, University of California, San Diego; Rachel Price, University of North Alabama; and Angi Traplena, Texas Woman's University. The national award winners will be announced in early September.

-- Compiled by David Pickle