Sports sponsorship: Pacific University (Oregon) has decided it will reinstate men's swimming effective with the 2004-05 season, in addition to a women's program that was re-established in 2003 after a 15-year absence. Pacific Athletics Director Judy Sherman, who said the women's team was added as part of the institution's Title IX plan, described the renewal of the men's program that was discontinued along with women's swimming in 1988 as a natural progression. "There are few swim programs out there that field either men or women, but not the other," she said. "Wherever you go, swim programs operate as a team with both men and women, supporting and cheering for each other. Adding the men's team at Pacific fills that void and gives us another competitive avenue with our sister institutions." The teams will be coached by Nathan Templeman, who recently was named Pacific's director of swimming.

Milestones: Doug Fleetwood notched his 100th career victory in baseball when Salisbury University defeated nationally ranked Eastern Connecticut State University March 6. Fleetwood is in his fourth season with the Sea Gulls ... Scott Pritchard claimed his 100th baseball victory at Westminster (Missouri) in the Blue Jays' 7-6 win March 16 in the second game of a doubleheader against Hannibal-LaGrange College. Pritchard, who is in his fifth year at Westminster, also is closing in on his 200th career victory, including a stint at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point ... Rowan University softball coach Kim Wilson earned her 300th career win with a doubleheader sweep of Lebanon Valley College March 25. Wilson has coached for 14 seasons, including the past eight at Rowan, where she has guided the Profs to three New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships and five Division III Softball Championship appearances. She also has coached at Washington and Jefferson College ... Jerry Haugen became the 20th active baseball coach in Division III with 500 victories when St. John's University (Minnesota) defeated the University of Wisconsin, Superior, in the second game of a March 31 doubleheader. Haugen is in his 27th year of coaching at his alma mater and his teams have posted winning seasons in 14 of the past 16 years ... College Misericordia softball coach Charlotte Slocum earned her 500th career victory with a doubleheader sweep over Cedar Crest College April 4. After the wins, Slocum's career record in 24 seasons stood at 500-231.

Miscellaneous: Louise O'Neal, director of athletics at Wellesley College and previously a women's basketball coach at Southern Connecticut State University, Yale University and Dartmouth College, is this year's recipient of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's Jostens-Berenson Service Award recognizing lifelong commitment of service to the game. O'Neal's teams at Southern Connecticut State were frequent contenders for national titles, and she also coached Yale to an Ivy Group title. She also served on the U.S. Olympic Games Selection Committee from 1976 to 1980 and was inducted in 1988 into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. O'Neal also has been active in NCAA governance, including service from 1997 to 2001 on the Division III Management Council ... Washington College (Maryland) posted its 5,000th recorded victory in the school's varsity athletics history when its women's lacrosse team defeated Lynchburg College, 12-6, March 9 in Orlando, Florida. Washington's first recorded victory was a 45-24 baseball win over Centreville Academy in 1871.

-- Compiled by Jack Copeland