Sports sponsorship: College of Staten Island will sponsor women's soccer beginning with the 2004 season. It will be the first new sport that Staten Island has sponsored since adding men's and women's swimming and diving in 1995, and will become the 11th varsity sport at the school. The move brings the City University of New York Athletic Conference closer to adding a women's soccer championship for league teams. "It's our goal to add a women's soccer championship to the conference and we are working hard to add a team so that can happen," said Zak Ivkovic, interim executive director of the conference. "This is clearly a step in the right direction for both CSI and the CUNY Conference." ... Stevens Institute of Technology will gain its 22nd varsity sport with the addition of field hockey in fall 2004. It will be the fifth sport that Stevens Institute has added since 2000-01, including wrestling, which the school previously announced would begin competition in 2004-05. Both field hockey and wrestling have been operating as club sports at the institute. Field hockey will be Stevens Institute's 11th women's sport ... DeSales University will make field hockey its 16th sport beginning next fall, and former Ohio State University team captain Jayne Longacre will coach the team. The program will be DeSales' eighth for women, and will compete independently for a season before being included in the Middle Atlantic States College Athletic Corporation schedule in 2005.

Milestones: Greg Poole, women's volleyball coach at Western New England College, recorded his 100th career victory November 4 when the Golden Bears defeated Emerson College in the opening round of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament. Poole is in his seventh season at the school.

Miscellaneous: Two football coaches each have served institutions in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference for more than 30 years -- and each has served at more than one league member school. Terry Price just finished his 33rd year of coaching in the league, including the past 18 years at Maranantha Baptist Bible College, where as head coach he has led the Crusaders to three conference titles. He earlier coached at former league member Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, first as an assistant coach beginning in 1971 and then as head coach for five years. Another veteran coach, Dennis Gorsline, just wrapped up his 31st year of coaching in the UMAC. In 1971, he resurrected the program at Dr. Martin Luther College, then left there in 1985 to become head coach at Northwestern College of Wisconsin. Ten years later, Dr. Martin Luther and Northwestern merged to become Martin Luther College, and Gorsline has since coached that institution's team, leading the Knights to conference championships in 1996 and 1998.

-- Compiled by Jack Copeland