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Facilities: The University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, honored recently retired Warhawks wrestling coach and professor and former athletics director Willie Myers by naming the wrestling area in Williams Center for Myers' family. A January 29 ceremony marked the naming of the Willie Myers Family Wrestling Gymnasium. Myers coached wrestling at the school for 36 years, claiming 12 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships, more than any other coach in any sport. He also coached three wrestlers to individual NCAA Division III titles. A member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Wrestling Hall of Fame, Myers also is a former president of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Coaches Association. He served as athletics director at the school from 1983 to 1998.
Milestones: Sandy Schuster recorded her 200th victory as women's basketball coach at Eureka College when the Red Devils defeated Aurora University February 15. Schuster, who also serves as athletics director, has been at Eureka since 1991 ... Joe Fussner collected his 200th victory in women's basketball when Richard Stockton College defeated Montclair State University February 12. Fussner has served three stints as head coach at the school for a total of 13 seasons ... John Harrington earned his 200th career victory in men's ice hockey February 12 when St. John's University (Minnesota) capped a weekend sweep of the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) with a 5-4 victory in front of a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference record crowd of 4,410 fans at the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Harrington, a member of the 1980 and 1984 U.S. Olympic ice hockey teams, has coached the Johnnies to four NCAA Division III tournament appearances, and the milestone win also was St. John's 20th victory of the season, clinching the program's third straight 20-victory season and fourth in school history ... Wendy Davis claimed her 100th coaching victory in women's basketball with Western New England College's February 8 victory over Daniel Webster College. The former University of Connecticut player reached the milestone in six seasons and is the first women's basketball coach at the school to win 100 games.
Miscellaneous: The 156th basketball game between Hope College and Calvin College January 16 attracted a television crew filming a series planned for the new ESPNU cable channel on the top 10 college basketball rivalries in the United States. The Hope-Calvin series is the only non-Division I rivalry selected for the series, the program's coordinating producer, Jay Jackson, told the Holland (Michigan) Sentinel. Plans call for a one-hour program devoted to each of the rivalries, after which viewers will be asked to rank them. "A lot of people have commented on the intensity of the (Hope-Calvin) rivalry and how deep that rivalry goes into the personal lives of the people that follow both schools," Calvin said. "It peaked our interest." Hope won the game, 71-68, in front of 2,700 fans and a regional television audience for what probably was the last game between the two teams at the Holland Civic Center. The Flying Dutchmen are scheduled to begin playing in Hope's new 3,400-seat DeVos Fieldhouse next season. With a split of this year's two games, Calvin now leads the series, 79-77.
--Compiled by Jack Copeland
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