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By Gary Brown
The NCAA News
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Sports sponsorship: St. Andrews Presbyterian College will add men’s volleyball beginning with the 2008 season. “With the inclusion of men’s volleyball to the St. Andrews intercollegiate program, we are most pleased to be offering a varied number of sports of interest to the equally varied number of student-athletes,” said Athletics Director Howard Reichner.Dan Kreiger, St. Andrews women’s volleyball coach for the past two seasons, will become the first head coach of the men’s volleyball team while continuing to lead the women’s team. The Knights will compete as an independent institution in the East region. Mount Olive College and Lees-McRae College are two in-state Division II schools that have men’s volleyball. Other East region opponents include Mercyhurst College, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, University of New Haven, New Jersey Institute of Technology and four colleges from Puerto Rico. “It is going to be a challenge as a start-up program competing against other well-established teams, but there are plenty of talented young men out there who have not been given the chance to compete on an NCAA varsity volleyball team. We are planning to bring in a group of high quality student-athletes and be competitive in our first season,” Kreiger said.
Miscellaneous: A sports management course at Lynn University gave 12 students the chance to attend the NCAA Men’s Final Four in Atlanta for credit. In addition to seeing the basketball games, the students toured Turner Field, Phillips Arena, Atlanta Motor Speedway and the Centennial Olympic Museum. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students to see what the business of sports is really all about,” said Lynn professor Ted Curtis. “They have been learning about it during their college careers. Now, they have a chance to feel it and experience it up-close and personal.” The trip was just part of the course — students took exams on the NCAA revenue-distribution plan, wrote papers on stadium design, conducted in-class debates on intercollegiate athletics’ amateurism status and prepared multi-media presentations on major sports facility and event operations.
Miscellaneous: A sports management course at Lynn University gave 12 students the chance to attend the NCAA Men’s Final Four in Atlanta for credit. In addition to seeing the basketball games, the students toured Turner Field, Phillips Arena, Atlanta Motor Speedway and the Centennial Olympic Museum. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our students to see what the business of sports is really all about,” said Lynn professor Ted Curtis. “They have been learning about it during their college careers. Now, they have a chance to feel it and experience it up-close and personal.” The trip was just part of the course — students took exams on the NCAA revenue-distribution plan, wrote papers on stadium design, conducted in-class debates on intercollegiate athletics’ amateurism status and prepared multi-media presentations on major sports facility and event operations.
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