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Facilities: Illinois College
recently unveiled plans for its new $22 million athletics and recreation facility, the school's largest construction project ever. Construction on the three-level, 150,000-square-foot facility is expected to begin this summer and conclude by the fall semester 2002. The facility will feature a gymnasium with seating for 1,600, an indoor fieldhouse with a 200-meter track and four multipurpose courts, and a natatorium with a competition-size swimming pool. Other features include a weight room and fitness center, numerous locker rooms, a multipurpose room for aerobics and wrestling, two handball/racquetball courts, offices, a catering kitchen, a classroom and a computer room. Gale Vaughn, who will move this summer from Illinois College's director of enrollment management to athletics director upon the retirement of longtime coach and athletics director Bill Merris, will oversee the new building and its related activities. "The timing on this facility is remarkable," said Vaughn, who views it as a boon to the college's recruitment efforts. "As the generations change, so do students' wants and needs. Students in this new 'millennial' generation are into wellness and are conscientious about their lifestyles. They want excellent fitness facilities. The building will be a showplace and will allow us to continue to attract the caliber of students and athletes that we want. I'm excited about the many opportunities this building will provide for student-athletes to train."Sports sponsorship: Roanoke College has announced that it will add baseball as its 19th varsity sport, beginning in spring 2002. This will be the first time the school will have a varsity baseball team since the mid-1950s, when the sport was dropped. Roanoke will continue to field a club team in 2001, and the varsity will be eligible for the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship beginning in spring 2003. Roanoke will practice and play its baseball games at Salem's Municipal Stadium. The school last added a sport in 1997 when the women's softball team was elevated to varsity status. The school will begin a search for a varsity baseball coach at the conclusion of the season.
Milestones: Jim Smith
, men's basketball coach at St. John's University (Minnesota), set a Minnesota collegiate all-divisions record with his 589th career win last month. In his 37th season at the school, Smith passed former Hamline University coach Joe Hutton to become the state of Minnesota's winningest collegiate basketball coach ... Val Julien, softball coach at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, earned her 200th career victory with a 4-0 win over Carroll College (Wisconsin). Julien is in her 15th season at Richard Stockton ... Keith Bunkenburg, Benedictine University (Illinois), reached the 100-win mark in men's basketball in his six years at the school. Bunkenburg has led the Eagles to two NCAA Division III tournaments and has won the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference title three times ... Don Galluzzi, Stevens Institute of Technology, 100 victories in women's swimming. Galluzzi has been with the program since its inception, and he has a four-year mark of 38-5 at the school. Previously, he coached men's swimming at Columbia University, Ohio University and Fordham University, earning 177 wins in men's swimming to go with his 105 in women's swimming. His combined record of 282-120 in 402 NCAA meets gives him a career winning percentage of .701.
Miscellaneous: Karyn Kern
, a senior center at Susquehanna University, became the first woman in school history -- and just the second basketball player ever at Susquehanna -- to surpass both 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career. She finished as the school's women's record-holder in career rebounds with 1,079. Kern rebounded from a torn anterior cruciate ligament injury last season to lead the Commonwealth Conference during the regular season this year in rebounding (11 per game). She also tied for the conference lead in scoring and blocked shots, and ranked second in field-goal percentage.-- Compiled by Kay Hawes
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