The women's volleyball season will begin with a bang this fall as last year's Division I championship-game teams join two other contenders for what may be a preview of great matchups later in the season.

The National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA) recently announced the host and participating teams for the seventh annual State Farm Women's Volleyball Classic.

The 2001 event will be held August 24-25 at the University of the Pacific (California).

Joining Pacific will be the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Nebraska, the defending champion, went undefeated last year. The Huskers have four starters returning, including three 2000 all-Americans and a past player of the year, Nancy Meendering, who sat out last year to train with the 2000 U.S. national team.

Wisconsin, which was ranked No. 2 at the end of the 2000 season and lost to Nebraska in the championship finals, has five of its starters returning, including two all-Americans.

Hawaii, ranked No. 3 at the end of last season, also competed in the championship. It has five starters returning, including one all-American.

Pacific, ranked No. 8 in 2000, has four starters returning, including an all-American middle blocker.

"We at Pacific are proud to host this major national women's volleyball competition on our campus," said Lynn King, director of athletics at Pacific.

"We look forward to showcasing the best in women's volleyball.

Pairings and television broadcast schedules will be announced later this spring.

Stanford University sophomore tennis player Laura Granville won her 58th consecutive match to break the NCAA record last month at the USTA/ITA National Wom

en's Team Indoor Championships at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

A native of Chicago, Granville is accustomed to winning. Before coming to Stanford, she became the first junior player since Tracy Austin to win back-to-back USTA Girls' 18-and-under singles titles.

The College of Wooster men's basketball program made history this season when head coach Steve Moore earned his 300th victory. Wooster became just the second NCAA institution -- and the first in Division III -- to have had three coaches win 300 games at that same school.

The Fighting Scots of Wooster joined the Jayhawks of the University of Kansas as a three-time 300-win basketball power.

The 300-win coaches at Wooster are: current coach Moore, who has been at the school for 14 years; Al Van Wie, who won 303 games in 21 years; and E.M. Hole, who won 412 games at Wooster in 32 years.

The 300-win coaches at Kansas are: current coach Roy Williams, who recently notched his 350th victory in 13 years at the school; Ted Owens, who won 348 games in 19 years at Kansas; and Forrest "Phog" Allen, who won 590 contests in 40 years.

National Student-Athlete Day (NSAD) is getting a new look with a new logo for its 14th anniversary.

NSAD, recognized annually on April 6, is intended to honor outstanding student-athletes nationwide. Co-presented by the NCAA and the National Federation of State High School Associations, NSAD was conceived by the National Consortium for Academics and Sports and Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society.

For more information on NSAD or to order awards certificates for student-athletes, contact Suzi Katz, director of the consortium's Southern Region, at the University of Central Florida (407/

"Obviously, institutions can choose to abide by Title IX regulations -- or ignore them and invite the dropping of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare equivalent to the atomic bomb. Given the impact of federal aid for needy students or substantial federal research grants and contracts, few institutions can afford to choose the route of defying the regulations. When it comes to jeopardizing a $6 million cancer research grant or a $12 million student aid program to go to war to save the football and basketball programs, there will be little choice."

University of New Mexico President William E. Davis, a member of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Title IX task force, speaking to delegates at the 1979 NCAA Convention. (The NCAA News, February 9, 1979)

"I cracked open our door and saw the ceiling tiles being ripped off the top of our hotel. I could see the edge of the thing going by, and I dived back into the room and got in the bathroom. It scared the soup out of me."

Basketball official Keith Maxwell after a March 1, 1997, tornado ripped through Arkansas. Maxwell was assigned to work the Sun Belt Conference tournament semifinal between the University of South Alabama and the University of Southwestern Louisiana. (The NCAA News, March 17, 1997)

"Why do Blacks score lower on eligibility tests than whites? The accusation has been made that the tests are biased, either intentionally or unintentionally, in favor of whites. Of course, what is really meant by this is that those who make up these tests are biased and the tests reflect their partisanship. This may or may not be the case, but even if it is, this in itself should not lead to the inference that the tests should be discarded. A more constructive solution would be to enlist the services of black and white scholars to identify these biases and eliminate them."

Arvid Adell, faculty athletics representative at Millikin University in an editorial in the March 29, 1999, issue of The NCAA News.