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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Braden Athletics makes strong growth from shoulder surgery

Braden determined against being a world traveler this winter, realizes his analysis from shoulder surgery took top priority.

Braden is operational with the hope of frequent to the Oakland Athletics exhausted rotation come mid-April. He understands the importance for a pitching staff that trade away All-Star starters Trevor Cahill and Gio Gonzalez this offseason, along with All-Star more rapidly Andrew Bailey.

For two years I had been throw in pain, not with pain but in pain. That's tough to do, and now just to be able to throw a baseball pain-free has been marvelous. The 28-year-old Braden hope to return to his 2010 form, when he inclined an questionable perfect game against Tampa Bay on May 9, the draw attention to of a year in which he went 11-14 with a 3.50 ERA in a career-best 192 2-3 innings.

Braden expected a 3.35 million dollar, 1 year contract in mid-December. He made three starts last season before being sideline by a take on injury.

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Athletics interior a memorial to Selmon’s

The rain held off just long sufficient for Selmon to appear to the sky and inform her husband that the fruit of his work had blossomed.

Family members of Selmon, USF student athletes from all the sports and member of the group of people gather to keep in mind the late Lee Roy Selmon on Wednesday as the Athletics structure he helped raise was authoritatively renamed the Lee Roy Selmon center.

Claybra, all along with children Brandy, Chris and Lee Roy as well as Selmon's older brother Lucious, spoke of Selmon's unending excitement for the University of South Florida after his in concert career with the ended.

When offered with the chance to come here and build the program, he was just delighted, Claybra said.

Lee Roy loved this University. He was dedicated to this University and no one knows it better than I, because I sit home a lot of nights while he was participate in functions for fundraising.

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West Cheshire AC youngsters to struggle at Olympic Park at UK School Games

A match up of West Cheshire AC youngsters will prove off their skill in front of thousands of fans at the most important venue for this summer’s London Olympics. Montez-Brown and Kelly Baker, from Ellesmere Port, have been chosen to participate in the UK School Games, which is predictable to attract up to 35,000 spectators.

The athletic competitions take place at the Olympic Park from May 6th to 9th and will be the last event to be held at the East London venue earlier than the Olympic Games opening ritual on July 27. The athletics event will be dramatic at the Olympic Stadium itself.
Kelly and Olivia will stroke shoulders with the most endowed young athletes during the event, which will give children with the chance to feel part of the Olympic experience. Olivia, 15, is ranking high in the UK under 17s women’s rankings for three events. She was achieved the place 18th in the 60meter hurdles, 13th in the heptathlon and 12th in the indoor long jump.

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Titles for Paul Ruddell at athletic championship

For triple jump and sprint hurdles has added four more provincial titles by Paul Ruddell and he won this season also.

LJ Hooker Athletics ran 11.5 seconds to break 100 meter record of the Kamo High School. On Saturday Athletics Northland Championships held at the Kensington all weather track and he completed the M17 sprint treble in 100m, 200m and 400m before claiming the long jump title by a margin of seven cms from Whangarei's Brad James.

Athlete Sarah de Bruin made her competition debut, and finished the W17 sprint treble with a very well win in the 400 meter with a best time of 63 seconds.

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Athletic Board likes to raise ticket prices

The University of Wisconsin Athletic Board generally approved a 113.6 million dollar make financial arrangements for the 2012-2013 financial years, along with cost increases for student football ticket holder next year. The cost bump is predictable to bring a one dollar million increase to the Athletics Department financial plan and is part of a new changeable pricing plan for a person football tickets. The arrangement will allow price for discussion games to be more costly than pre-conference games.

Student football tickets are position to increase by two dollars, while undergraduate men’s basketball season-tickets will increase by four dollar. Athletic Board member Philip Brown, who accessible the budget, added the price change at rest keeps UW in the middle range of the Big Ten’s taken as a whole price ranges for tickets. We do not take permit price increases lightly, Brown said. This is one of the few areas of income that is beneath our control. You look at the Big Ten everyone charges a small fortune to see Wisconsin play at their place. We are going to start doing the similar thing to support our services.

Brown added modify will keep up the current price share with student tickets life form held to about half the price of individual public tickets. Season ticket prices will not be varying, which will create more prices for a season ticket owner. Brown also qualified the spike in the budget to the multiple structure projects currently in progress.

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Athletics playing main role in university life

In Mid-American Conference in the 2009-2010 season in football, wrestling, gymnastics, soccer and baseball, multiple programs have moved into “rebuilding periods".

CMU’s football program won three MAC titles and appears in four bowl games between 2006 and 2009. Since then, the team has recorded back-to-back 3-9 seasons.

I would like to say CMU athletics are in a period of rebuilding, judge the major sports programs here - said Dearborn senior Joe Hunter.

The men’s basketball and football teams have both struggled for the last few years, but the future looks bright.

As the top gross programs work to rebuild their winning name, CMU has had its share of success elsewhere.

The wrestle team has finished 10 straight seasons as MAC champions, while the baseball team won back-to-back MAC West division titles. Volleyball won its first MAC championship in 2011, and both the soccer and gymnastics teams have won two consecutive MAC championships.

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