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Sport sponsorship: Eastern Illinois University discontinued its wrestling program May 17. Athletics Director Rich McDuffie attributed the decision to the team’s poor Academic Progress Rate. Coach Ralph McCausland will be reassigned to another position at the university and all scholarship commitments, including those to prospective student-athletes who signed National Letters of Intent, will be honored. Eastern Illinois now sponsors 11 women’s sports and 10 men’s sports ... California State University, Bakersfield, named Bill Kernen the institution’s first baseball coach. Kernen, a playwright and graduate of the dramatic writing master’s program at Columbia University, currently serves as pitching coach at California State University, Fullerton. He was a baseball student-athlete at Redlands University.
Facilities: Purdue University trustees approved an $82.3 million athletics complex to be built around the school’s basketball arena. The building will hold a practice facility for men’s and women’s basketball teams and new locker, meeting, and video rooms. A sports medicine facility and strength and conditioning building also will be added. Seating in Mackey Arena will decrease by about 800 seats, but concourses will be widened and restrooms and concession stands will be added.
Milestones: University of Notre Dame baseball coach David Schrage reached 500 wins April 29 — Schrage’s 46th birthday. He has coached at the University of Evansville, Northern Illinois University and the University of Northern Iowa.
Miscellaneous: The Mountain West Conference named San Diego State University student athletic trainer Marco Zucconi recipient of the conference Commissioner’s Award for distinguished accomplishment during the current academic year to enhance the conference or a member institution. Zucconi, who came to the aid of an accident victim while providing assistance at a cross country team workout in Salem, Oregon, is the first recipient of the award ... The University of San Francisco’s Tavo Hall served as valedictorian for the 2007 graduates, the first student-athlete to be chosen for the honor in at least 20 years. Hall is a shortstop on the baseball team, hitting .333 until he broke his arm April 14. Hall was also named a CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and received the school’s Charles Harney Award for his academic accomplishments ... San Jose State University cross country student-athlete Tabitha Guzman received the institution’s “Outstanding Graduating Senior” award May 26. She is the first student-athlete at San Jose State to receive the honor. After graduation, she will pursue a doctorate in chemistry at Yale ... Bowling Green State head volleyball coach Denise Van De Walle received the George J. Fisher Leader in Volleyball award May 24 at the Dorothy C. Boyce Annual Awards and Recognition Banquet. The award is named for the first president and founding member of USA Volleyball. Van De Walle is a past president of the American Volleyball Coaches Association and a past board member for USA Volleyball.
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The NCAA News
Sport sponsorship: Eastern Illinois University discontinued its wrestling program May 17. Athletics Director Rich McDuffie attributed the decision to the team’s poor Academic Progress Rate. Coach Ralph McCausland will be reassigned to another position at the university and all scholarship commitments, including those to prospective student-athletes who signed National Letters of Intent, will be honored. Eastern Illinois now sponsors 11 women’s sports and 10 men’s sports ... California State University, Bakersfield, named Bill Kernen the institution’s first baseball coach. Kernen, a playwright and graduate of the dramatic writing master’s program at Columbia University, currently serves as pitching coach at California State University, Fullerton. He was a baseball student-athlete at Redlands University.Facilities: Purdue University trustees approved an $82.3 million athletics complex to be built around the school’s basketball arena. The building will hold a practice facility for men’s and women’s basketball teams and new locker, meeting, and video rooms. A sports medicine facility and strength and conditioning building also will be added. Seating in Mackey Arena will decrease by about 800 seats, but concourses will be widened and restrooms and concession stands will be added.
Milestones: University of Notre Dame baseball coach David Schrage reached 500 wins April 29 — Schrage’s 46th birthday. He has coached at the University of Evansville, Northern Illinois University and the University of Northern Iowa.
Miscellaneous: The Mountain West Conference named San Diego State University student athletic trainer Marco Zucconi recipient of the conference Commissioner’s Award for distinguished accomplishment during the current academic year to enhance the conference or a member institution. Zucconi, who came to the aid of an accident victim while providing assistance at a cross country team workout in Salem, Oregon, is the first recipient of the award ... The University of San Francisco’s Tavo Hall served as valedictorian for the 2007 graduates, the first student-athlete to be chosen for the honor in at least 20 years. Hall is a shortstop on the baseball team, hitting .333 until he broke his arm April 14. Hall was also named a CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and received the school’s Charles Harney Award for his academic accomplishments ... San Jose State University cross country student-athlete Tabitha Guzman received the institution’s “Outstanding Graduating Senior” award May 26. She is the first student-athlete at San Jose State to receive the honor. After graduation, she will pursue a doctorate in chemistry at Yale ... Bowling Green State head volleyball coach Denise Van De Walle received the George J. Fisher Leader in Volleyball award May 24 at the Dorothy C. Boyce Annual Awards and Recognition Banquet. The award is named for the first president and founding member of USA Volleyball. Van De Walle is a past president of the American Volleyball Coaches Association and a past board member for USA Volleyball.© 2010 The National Collegiate Athletic Association
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