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By Jack Copeland
The NCAA News
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Conferences: The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference has accepted two new members: Franciscan University of Stuebenville, which will begin league competition in 2008-09, and D’Youville College, which will join in 2009-10. Franciscan currently is in its first year of provisional membership, and D’Youville currently is a member of the North Eastern Athletic Conference. “This is a strategic move for the AMCC to strengthen its membership by staying within our established geographic footprint,” said Commissioner Donna Ledwin. “Both Franciscan and D’Youville match up well with the academic, enrollment and sport-sponsorship profiles of our current members, so the transition for them and us should be a smooth one.” Ledwin said the conference, which currently includes 10 members, began considering expansion after one of the current members, Lake Erie College, announced plans to reclassify into Division II. Lake Erie is in its final year of AMCC membership. Franciscan is located in Steubenville, Ohio (near Pittsburgh), while D’Youville is located in Buffalo, New York. “We see this as a tremendous opportunity and are looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship with the members of the conference,” said Father Terence Henry, president at Franciscan, which currently sponsors 10 sports and plans to sponsor 12 sports by the beginning of fall 2009. D’Youville currently sponsors 11 sports and will expand to at least 13 by the time they join the conference. “Several local institutions are currently members and their proximity and enthusiasm should ignite even greater spirit at athletics events and enable student-athletes to have good competitive opportunities while spending less time traveling,” said Sister Denise Roche, president at D’Youville ... The North Eastern Athletic Conference also is accepting two new members, making the NEAC a 10-member conference during 2008-09 before D’Youville’s departure. The new members are State University of New York at Cobleskill, scheduled to begin its first year of Division III provisional membership in 2008-09 as it completes its transition from a two-year into a four-year institution, and State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome, currently a member of the State University of New York Athletic Conference. “The North Eastern Athletic Conference is excited to be adding two dynamic new schools to the conference,” said Susan Phillip Speece, chancellor at Penn State Berks College and chair of the NEAC Presidents Council. “The conference is based upon our shared belief in the importance of education, similar student populations and similar commitment of our presidents to the conference.” Cobleskill State sponsors 20 varsity sports, and SUNY Institute of Technology sponsors 12 sports and is considering adding six more.
Milestones: John Gagliardi, who has won more games than any other coach in college football history, recorded his 450th career victory October 13 when St. John’s University (Minnesota) defeated Gustavus Adolphus College. The milestone win comes in Gagliardi’s 59th season as a coach and 55th season at St. John’s, and four years after he surpassed Grambling University’s Eddie Robinson as the most victorious coach in history. The Johnnies have won four Division III titles under Gagliardi, who has coached for more years than any other collegiate coach ... Erin Sullivan won his 100th game in men’s soccer when Western New England College beat Colby-Sawyer College October 13. Sullivan was the starting goalkeeper on Williams College’s 1995 Division III championship team ... Mark Recker collected his 100th victory in women’s soccer in Calvin College’s October 10 victory at Alma College. Recker has won 75 percent of his games during his seven seasons at the school. The win at Alma was Calvin’s 18th straight conference victory in a streak dating to October 2005.
Miscellaneous: Deborah Jackson, a 1985 graduate of Emory University, recently donated $250,000 to the school’s athletics department, partly to endow the position of Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics currently held by Tim Downes. The school hopes to raise an additional $500,000 to complete the endowment to honor “Doc” Partin, who retired at Emory in 2002 after 50 years in various positions, including athletics director and chair of health and physical education from 1966 through 1986. “Emory changed my life,” said Jackson, a mathematics and computer science graduate from Emory and entrepreneur in the teleconferencing field who became acquainted with Partin while playing intramural softball. “The school changed my outlook on life, mostly through Doc. I learned at Emory that the least one could do was to care about those around you. The most? Well, that is limitless. Doc Partin was and remains a major conveyor and embodiment of that principle among other Emory principles.” The donation is the second endowed-fund gift to athletics since February. “It is a great honor and a humbling experience to sit in a position that is named on Doc’s behalf,” said Downes, who became athletics director at the school earlier this year. “Doc Partin set a standard of excellence in so many areas during his career at Emory, and it is now my responsibility to carry on his legacy and to continue to promote the philosophy that Doc helped to build: ‘Athletics for All’.” ... Two different members of the Centenary College (New Jersey) women’s volleyball team made the Lady Cyclones’ September 10 victory over Alvernia College memorable when each became the school’s career leader in separate statistical categories. Senior Christina Boyer became Centenary’s all-time leader in kills (and since has topped the 600-kill mark in that category), and junior Jolyn Veres became the school’s assists leader (and has since topped the 1,000-assist mark).
Milestones: John Gagliardi, who has won more games than any other coach in college football history, recorded his 450th career victory October 13 when St. John’s University (Minnesota) defeated Gustavus Adolphus College. The milestone win comes in Gagliardi’s 59th season as a coach and 55th season at St. John’s, and four years after he surpassed Grambling University’s Eddie Robinson as the most victorious coach in history. The Johnnies have won four Division III titles under Gagliardi, who has coached for more years than any other collegiate coach ... Erin Sullivan won his 100th game in men’s soccer when Western New England College beat Colby-Sawyer College October 13. Sullivan was the starting goalkeeper on Williams College’s 1995 Division III championship team ... Mark Recker collected his 100th victory in women’s soccer in Calvin College’s October 10 victory at Alma College. Recker has won 75 percent of his games during his seven seasons at the school. The win at Alma was Calvin’s 18th straight conference victory in a streak dating to October 2005.
Miscellaneous: Deborah Jackson, a 1985 graduate of Emory University, recently donated $250,000 to the school’s athletics department, partly to endow the position of Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics currently held by Tim Downes. The school hopes to raise an additional $500,000 to complete the endowment to honor “Doc” Partin, who retired at Emory in 2002 after 50 years in various positions, including athletics director and chair of health and physical education from 1966 through 1986. “Emory changed my life,” said Jackson, a mathematics and computer science graduate from Emory and entrepreneur in the teleconferencing field who became acquainted with Partin while playing intramural softball. “The school changed my outlook on life, mostly through Doc. I learned at Emory that the least one could do was to care about those around you. The most? Well, that is limitless. Doc Partin was and remains a major conveyor and embodiment of that principle among other Emory principles.” The donation is the second endowed-fund gift to athletics since February. “It is a great honor and a humbling experience to sit in a position that is named on Doc’s behalf,” said Downes, who became athletics director at the school earlier this year. “Doc Partin set a standard of excellence in so many areas during his career at Emory, and it is now my responsibility to carry on his legacy and to continue to promote the philosophy that Doc helped to build: ‘Athletics for All’.” ... Two different members of the Centenary College (New Jersey) women’s volleyball team made the Lady Cyclones’ September 10 victory over Alvernia College memorable when each became the school’s career leader in separate statistical categories. Senior Christina Boyer became Centenary’s all-time leader in kills (and since has topped the 600-kill mark in that category), and junior Jolyn Veres became the school’s assists leader (and has since topped the 1,000-assist mark).
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