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By Jack Copeland
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Facilities: Hope College is renovating the baseball and softball fields in its Buys Athletics Complex and will name the facilities for four individuals who have been involved in the college for several decades. The college is installing permanent stands, new press boxes and dugouts at both fields before the 2008 season. The softball facility will be named for Karla Hoesch Wolters, Hope’s softball coach for the past 20 years and a 1973 graduate of the college, and her husband Tom, also a 1973 graduate. The baseball field will be named for longtime assistant baseball coach Ronald Boeve, a 1953 Hope graduate, and his wife Sonya (known as Sunny). “We are pleased to honor these two very special coaches,” said Hope President James E. Bultman. “Both Karla and Ron have been integral parts of Hope athletics as players and coaches. And, because coaching at its best involves spouses as well, we are pleased to honor Tom and Sunny.” The new seating at the fields will accommodate 250 fans for softball and 300 for baseball. “The playing surfaces of our fields are quite satisfactory,” Bultman said. “The seating, however, has always been less than desirable. The major portion of the renovation, therefore, will be to install permanent seating with less obstructive dugouts and improved press boxes. The ballparks will have stadium-like appearances to them.” ... Hilbert College has installed a new 11,000-sqare-foot gymnasium floor in its Hafner Recreation Center that officials say provides a safer and more comfortable playing surface for student-athletes. “Playing on a wooden floor is easier on the body and joints so we expect there to be fewer injuries among student-athletes and recreational users,” said Richard Walsh, Hilbert athletics director. “The floor complements other improvements at the Hafner Recreation Center, including a modernized weight and fitness center that broadened our on-campus exercise facilities.” The new floor, which is adorned with the college’s Hawks logo, includes $33,000 of wood donated by local Baillie Lumber Company. It replaces the original surface installed when the recreation center opened in 1979.
Miscellaneous: Cazenovia College unveiled a new logo for its athletics programs during a special year-end Student-Athlete Appreciation Day celebration in May. The school’s athletics department collaborated with the Cazenovia communications department to develop the new look, which features a Wildcat mascot designed by visual communications major Arsen Gurabardhi and by Cazenovia’s art director, John Seiter. Brian Small, the school’s sports information director, said the idea was to enhance the school’s logo while honoring the wishes of students, faculty and alumni who expressed a desire to retain the Wildcat mascot and the school’s blue and gold colors in the design. “We gave the design team a series of verbs that we thought would best represent the department,” Small said. “John and Arsen put together a logo that epitomized our verbiage. The new Wildcat logo is fast, sharp and fierce.” It also features a third color — a lighter shade of blue — intended to pay homage to alumni who have supported the program since it joined Division III in the late 1990s. “We thought it would pay homage to the alumni who were here during the transitional period to Division III and also enhance the existing logo by making the gold and the navy blue really pop,” said Rob Kenna, Cazenovia’s athletics director. The new logo will be in use by this fall ... Four Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference institutions’ Student-Athlete Advisory Committees worked together to collect a truckload plus a trailer full of sporting equipment for elementary schools in Louisiana that still are struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina. SAAC members from Frostburg State University; La Roche College; the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford; and Pennsylvania State University Erie, the Behrend College, participated in the effort organized by Troy Strieby, Frostburg State’s SAAC coordinator. The idea to collect the equipment was suggested during a conference SAAC meeting as a way to celebrate the league’s 10th anniversary. “We can really make a difference here,” said Strieby, who said schools in the stricken area still are in great need of items ranging from band equipment to school and library books to sporting equipment.
Miscellaneous: Cazenovia College unveiled a new logo for its athletics programs during a special year-end Student-Athlete Appreciation Day celebration in May. The school’s athletics department collaborated with the Cazenovia communications department to develop the new look, which features a Wildcat mascot designed by visual communications major Arsen Gurabardhi and by Cazenovia’s art director, John Seiter. Brian Small, the school’s sports information director, said the idea was to enhance the school’s logo while honoring the wishes of students, faculty and alumni who expressed a desire to retain the Wildcat mascot and the school’s blue and gold colors in the design. “We gave the design team a series of verbs that we thought would best represent the department,” Small said. “John and Arsen put together a logo that epitomized our verbiage. The new Wildcat logo is fast, sharp and fierce.” It also features a third color — a lighter shade of blue — intended to pay homage to alumni who have supported the program since it joined Division III in the late 1990s. “We thought it would pay homage to the alumni who were here during the transitional period to Division III and also enhance the existing logo by making the gold and the navy blue really pop,” said Rob Kenna, Cazenovia’s athletics director. The new logo will be in use by this fall ... Four Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference institutions’ Student-Athlete Advisory Committees worked together to collect a truckload plus a trailer full of sporting equipment for elementary schools in Louisiana that still are struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina. SAAC members from Frostburg State University; La Roche College; the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford; and Pennsylvania State University Erie, the Behrend College, participated in the effort organized by Troy Strieby, Frostburg State’s SAAC coordinator. The idea to collect the equipment was suggested during a conference SAAC meeting as a way to celebrate the league’s 10th anniversary. “We can really make a difference here,” said Strieby, who said schools in the stricken area still are in great need of items ranging from band equipment to school and library books to sporting equipment.© 2010 The National Collegiate Athletic Association
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