National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship

Dates and site: The May 6 semifinals and May 8 final are at Hawaii's Stan Sheriff Center.

Field: Four teams will participate in the championship. One team will be selected from the East, Midwest and West regions through automatic qualification and one team will be selected at large.

Selection date: May 2.

2003 champion: Lewis.

Top contenders: The top five teams in the American Volleyball Coaches Association's Divisions I and II coaches' poll for April 13 were Brigham Young, Long Beach State, UCLA, Pepperdine and Cal State Northridge. The top five teams in the AVCA Division III coaches' poll for April 13 were Juniata, New York University, Springfield, UC Santa Cruz and La Verne.

Championship notes: Lewis' win last year made history in that the Flyers became the first non-Division I school to win the national championship. In a championship usually dominated by West Coast schools, the Romeoville, Illinois, institution defeated Brigham Young to win the title -- the first for the school in any sport. It also was the first title for a Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association representative ... The championship dates back to 1970 and during that time only four non-California schools have won the title ... The attendance record for the event was set in 1998 when 9,822 people watched UCLA defeat Pepperdine in the championship match.

National Collegiate Women's Water Polo Championship

Dates and site: The semifinals and final will be May 8-9 at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center.

Field: A four-team, single-elimination tournament will decide the champion. Three teams, one each from the Collegiate Water Polo Association, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and the Western Water Polo Association, will receive automatic bids. The fourth team will be an at-large selection.

Selection date: May 3.

2003 champion: UCLA.

Top contenders: Southern California, Stanford, UCLA, Long Beach State and San Diego State sit atop a recent Collegiate Water Polo Association poll.

Championship notes: At 19-0, top-ranked Southern California is off to its best start in program history and has hung losses on each of the other top-five teams ... Senior defender Wendy Watkins leads Stanford, the 2002 national champion, with 25 goals, and junior Hannah Luber is the Cardinal's second-leading scorer with 23 ... Long Beach State opened the season with five straight victories before falling in overtime to Stanford ... UCLA, Stanford and Loyola Marymount have made appearances in each of the three years the tournament has been held. UCLA has collected two of the three national titles.