Namibia School athletics got the sponsorship from Coco-Cola

In Namibia, for the successive 20th year that the Coca-Cola will go to sponsor for the schools athletics, while this year also sees the 21st century of the Namibia School Sport Union. The major part of the sponsorship will go towards the NSSU Coca-Cola National Athletics Championships to be hosted at the Windhoek Independence Stadium on March 30 and 31 where Namibia’s top junior athletes will be in action.

At a press discussion to make known the event, the national coordinator of the NSSU, Solly Duiker, said part of the finance support will go towards regional school’s championship which was finished last weekend, as well as the COSSASA Ball Games that Namibia will host in August.

Solly also announce that Marathon Sugar had get nearer on board as a co-sponsor of school’s athletics in Namibia with an first sponsorship of N$45,000 for the year 2012.

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In Colonial Athletic Association - Delaware women top Drexel to win

Delaware sense Elena Delle Donne broke free from Drexel's roasting defense in the second half and lifted the seventh-ranked Blue Hens to a 59-43 conquest over the Dragons on Sunday afternoon for their first Colonial Athletic Association championship.

The win gave the Blue Hens (30-1) one of the 31 routine bids to the NCAA women's basketball tournament that go to discussion champions. The rest of the 64-team field will be given at-large bids and the pairings will be exposed Monday at 8 p.m. on ESPN. Drexel (18-13), which made a Cinderella run late in the season to reach the CAA title game for the second time in four years, is not in line for one of the NCAA invites but will certainly get a call from the Women's NIT, which will set in motion Wednesday on campus sites.

St. Joseph's is also likely to get a call, as will place of worship, if the Owls don't land in the NCAA field for the ninth as the crow flies year. The Dragons had the potential to spiral an upset. Delaware escaped with a 40-39 victory at Drexel last month when Delle Donne hit an outside shot in the final seconds. But Dragons coach Denise Dillon had little console with her team in contention, sprawling by 20-16 at the half. "We just played a great team, and they show us why they are a top-10 team in the country and the best in the CAA," Dillon said afterward. "My anxiety was we were not scoring the ball. We were doing a great job defensively but not score at all. We got a few good, but they were not in the flow.

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Boyd and Samuels added to preliminary Olympic track and field squad

New Australian pole vault world record holder Boyd and 2009 discus world champion Dani Samuels were among 12 Australians added to the track and field squad for the London Olympics.

The squad now numbers 25 and will likely grow to more than 40 by the June 11 cut-off. Boyd was surprisingly beaten into second place by training partner Liz Parnov at last weekend's trials in Melbourne.

But the selectors took into account Boyd's recent stellar run of form and the wet conditions in selecting her alongside Parnov who, at 17, is the youngest member of the squad.

Samuels came up just 70cm short of the automatic qualifying standard of 62m at the Melbourne trials, but did enough to convince national high performance manager Eric Hollingsworth and the other selectors that she can return to the distances she achieved in 2009. Henry Frayne received the nod in the long jump after previously earning automatic selection in his favored triple jump.

Jared Tallent will contest the 20km walk as well as the 50km, having medaled in both events four years ago in Beijing. And his wife Claire Tallent will compete in the women's 20km in London after winning the trial in Hobart last month.

The other Australians to book their tickets to London at the selectors' discretion were Collis Birmingham (5000m), Ben St Lawrence (10,000m), Lauren Boden (400m hurdles), 1500m duo Zoe Buckman and Kaila McKnight, 20km walkers Regan Lamble and Beki Lee and discus thrower Julian Wruck.

Craig Mottram (5000m), Brendan Cole (400m hurdles), Youcef Abdi (3000m steeplechase) and Jeff Riseley (800m) claimed automatic qualification by virtue of their victories at the trials at Lakeside Stadium.

LONDON OLYMPIC TRACK SQUAD FOR PRELIMINARY:

Men
Jeff Riseley(800m)
Craig Mottram, Collis Birmingham (5000m)
Ben St Lawrence (10,000m)
Brendan Cole (400m hurdles)
Youcef Abdi (3000m steeplechase)
Jared Tallent(20km walk)
Jared Tallent, Luke Adams, Nathan Deakes (50km walk)
Mitchell Watt, Henry Frayne (Long jump)
Henry Frayne (Triple jump)
Jarrod Bannister (Javelin)
Benn Harradine, Julian Wruck (Discus)

Women
Zoe Buckman, Kaila McKnight (1500m)
Sally Pearson (100m hurdles)
Lauren Boden (400m hurdles)
Claire Tallent, Regan Lamble, Beki Lee (20km walk)
Alana Boyd, Liz Parnov (Pole vault)
Kim Mickle (Javelin)
Dani Samuels (Discus)

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Taylor University athletic teams earned GPA

Taylor University athletic teams earn an typical GPA of 3.33 and 94 student athlete were named to the Deans inventory during the collapse 2011 and J-Term 2012 academic terms.
The women's cross country team earn a 3.57 team GPA to direct all women's teams and the men's tennis team post a 3.37 team GPA to direct all men's teams.
According to Taylor Student Athlete College Support Director Scott Stan, the men's and women's track teams are the only teams whose GPAs are not planned during the fall semester due to schedule fluctuations.
The men's soccer program had a couple of student-athletes earn Capital One educational All-American honors, the first players in list history to do so. Women's soccer saw three players earn Capital One studious All-District as well while junior Leah Beck became the first Taylor women's soccer player to make Academic All-American honors.
Of the 13 intercollegiate athletic teams whose GPAs were planned, each team earn a combined GPA of 3.0 with four teams earn GPAs of at least 3.5.

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