Sports sponsorship: Guilford College will add four varsity sports in 2004-05, increasing to 16 the number of teams it will sponsor in Old Dominion Athletic Conference competition. The new sports are men's and women's cross country, women's swimming and diving, and men's tennis, which returns after being discontinued by the school following the 2002 season. "The addition of these four sports gives Guilford 16 varsity programs, which means it is no longer the smallest coeducational athletics program in the ODAC," said Randy Doss, the school's vice-president of campus life and enrollment. "Each team will be added at minimal cost since the college already has competition venues on campus." The men's tennis team will use an eight-court facility already in use by the Guilford women's tennis team, while the cross country teams will use wooded campus trails and the women's swimming team will use the 25-meter pool in Ragan-Brown Field House. Three of the four teams will be coached by current athletics staff members, and the school is searching for a women's swimming coach and aquatics director.

Milestones: Muskingum College's Elizabeth Zicha notched her 500th career coaching victory in volleyball September 27 when the Muskies defeated Allegheny College in the opening match of the Oberlin College Quad. With the victory, Zicha ranks 10th among active coaches who have served for at least five years in a Division III program. She also ranks among top Division III coaches in winning percentage. Zicha, a professor of physical education at Muskingum, has coached the Muskies to six Ohio Athletic Conference titles and a third-place finish in the 1999 Division III Women's Volleyball Championship ... Bridget White claimed her 300th volleyball coaching victory when Kean University defeated Arcadia University October 4. White, whose teams have won five New Jersey Athletic Conference postseason tournament titles, is in her 16th season at the school ... Sharon Pfluger, who has coached field hockey teams at College of New Jersey to seven NCAA titles, won her 350th game October 21 when her nationally ranked Lions defeated Messiah College in overtime. Pfluger, who began her career with one-year coaching stints at Kean University and Montclair State College, is in her 19th season at College of New Jersey ... Another College of New Jersey coach, Joe Russo, collected his 250th career victory in women's soccer when his team defeated Rowan University October 15. Russo, who coached the Lions to Division III titles in 1993, 1994 and 2000, is in his 14th season at the school ... Phil Wingert earned his 200th victory in men's soccer when Wilkes University defeated Gwynedd-Mercy College October 7. Wingert has coached at the school for 22 years ... It took Kevin East only six years to become the most victorious men's soccer coach at New Jersey City University. He earned that distinction with his 69th victory at the school, a shutout of Susquehanna University October 10.

Miscellaneous: Widener University's football team became the third Division III program in the sport to record 600 victories when it defeated Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham, October 25. Widener, which earlier in the month became only the second Division III program to play 1,000 games, joined Wittenberg University and Washington and Jefferson College in the 600-victory club ... Gordon College senior forward Lindsey Benson became the 12th player in Division III women's soccer to score 100 goals in a career with her two-goal performance October 21 against New England College.

-- Compiled by Jack Copeland