Milestones: Bowling Green State University's Denise Van De Walle became the winningest volleyball coach in Mid-American Conference history recently. Bowling Green's 21-9 season in 2000 gives Van De Walle a career record of 338-221-0 in 18 seasons at the school. The Falcons have had nine 20-win seasons during her tenure ... Hofstra University men's basketball coach Jay Wright captured his 100th career win when Hofstra defeated Stony Brook, 72-60, November 25. Wright is in his seventh season and has a career record of 100-80.

Miscellaneous: Josh Heupel, quarterback at the University of Oklahoma, was named the Walter Camp Player of the Year, and Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops was named the Walter Camp Coach of the Year, marking the third time that a player and coach from the same school have been honored in the same year. The winners of the awards, named for the former Yale University coach who helped develop the rules of the game, are picked by a national panel of Division I-A coaches and sports information directors ... University of Montana coach Joe Glenn was named the 14th winner of the Eddie Robinson Award, presented annually to the top head coach in Division I-AA football. In his first year at Montana, Glenn led the Grizzlies to a 10-1 record, a Big Sky Conference championship, a No. 1 ranking in the top-25 poll and the top seed in the Division I-AA playoffs. The Grizzlies, often noted before Glenn's tenure for their offensive proficiency, also became one of the nation's top defensive clubs under Glenn's tutelage. Montana allowed just 265 yards per game on the season, a figure that ranked eighth-best in Division I-AA. Meanwhile, Furman University tailback Louis Ivory was named the 14th winner of the Walter Payton Award as the Division I-AA Player of the Year. The junior rushed for a Division I-AA-best 2,079 yards during the regular season for the Paladins, leading Furman to a 9-2 record and second-place finish in the Southern Conference. Ivory, who also scored 16 touchdowns on the year, accumulated his yardage on just 286 carries for an average of 7.3 yards per attempt. In leading Furman to its second consecutive trip to the Division I-AA playoffs, Ivory became the first running back in the 80-year history of the Southern Conference to amass more than 2,000 yards in a season. Also in Division I-AA, Western Illinois University linebacker Edgerton Hartwell was named the seventh winner of the Buck Buchanan Award, presented annually to the top defensive player in Division I-AA football. The senior recorded a Division I-AA-best 169 tackles during the regular season for the Leathernecks, helping Western Illinois fashion a 9-2 record and earn the Gateway Football Conference Championship. The school's all-time leading tackler with 512 stops in just three seasons at Western Illinois, Hartwell also had four games with 20 or more tackles.

-- Compiled by Gary T. Brown