Milestones: Joel Wallace recorded his 100th victory in men’s soccer when Westminster College (Missouri) defeated Maryville University (Missouri) October 4. Wallace coached one year at MacMurray College before beginning a nine-season tenure at Westminster ... Two coaches at Elizabethtown College posted milestone wins recently. Skip Roderick’s 400th victory in men’s soccer October 31 was especially memorable because it came against top-ranked and two-time defending Division III champion Messiah College, which suffered its first loss since November 2004. With the win during the Commonwealth Conference tournament, Roderick becomes the ninth Division III coach and 19th in all divisions to reach the 400-victory plateau in the sport. Women’s volleyball coach Randall Kreider also achieved a milestone when he collected his 100th coaching victory in the Blue Jays’ November 1 win over Moravian College in the Commonwealth Conference postseason tournament.

Miscellaneous: Emory University and Kenyon College have been highly competitive in recent years in swimming and diving, as Emory has emerged as a consistent challenger to Kenyon’s historic domination of the sport, even beating the Kenyon women at last year’s Division III championships. However, the schools’ rivalry has generated mutual respect both in and out of the pool. Emory’s inductees this year into its 148-member athletics hall of fame included former head swimming coach Peter Smith, who first moved the school toward national prominence in swimming as the Eagles’ head coach from 1983 through 1998. Why did Smith leave Emory? He entered athletics administration, serving first as director of athletics at Wesleyan University (Connecticut) and then since 2002 — at Kenyon. And who replaced Smith at Emory — and ultimately led the Eagles past Kenyon for the women’s title? It was Jon Howell, a 21-time all-American who collected 11 individual Division III swimming titles while a student-athlete in the late 1980s — at Kenyon ... Millikin University Assistant Athletic Trainer Noel Neptune and nine student athletic trainers ventured off campus October 23 to lend a hand at the Chicago Marathon, where they worked in the medical tent. "This is a great learning experience for our students to see new types of injuries," Neptune said. "The Chicago Marathon is the biggest event that our students have ever covered and they get to aid some of the top athletes in the world." The Millikin group was assigned to work the finish line area, where they helped runners to the medical area and assisted in treating hypothermia, blisters and muscle cramps among other duties. Before the race, the group assembled thousands of ice bags for use at the end of the race.