CALVIN SPORTS REPORT FOR MARCH 17, 2009
Women's Swimming & Diving Ranked Eighth in Final CollegeSwimming.com Top 25
poll;
Van Noord Arena Receives National Award
SWIMMING AND DIVING
The final Division III Top 25 poll of the year conducted by Collegeswimming.com
has been released and the Calvin women's team has finished eighth. Under the
direction of head coach Dan Gelderloos, the Knights captured their fifth
consecutive MIAA title this year and are sending 11 individuals to this week's
NCAA III Championships in Minneapolis. The Knights will be bidding for fifth
consecutive top 10 national finish.
In addition, the Calvin men's swimming and diving also received votes in the
final poll of the year. The poll can be found on-line at:
http://www.collegeswimming.com/news/2009/mar/17/kenyon-finishes-year-atop-division-iii-poll/
VAN NOORD ARENA FLOOR HONORED
The floor in Calvin's new Van Noord Arena has been honored as the Robbins
Sports Surface of the Year for 2008 in the College/Athletic category, one of
five categories in this year's competition.
The floor, the first of its kind to be installed at a college or university in
the United States, has a "sandwich layer" of foam between two layers of wood
and was designed to cushion the pounding ankles, knees, hips and backs absorb
in sports such as basketball and volleyball, the primary sports housed in the
new arena.
"The research that has gone into developing this floor is impressive and I'd
expect that this will become the floor of the future in most major basketball
and volleyball arenas,” said Glen Van Andel, chair of the committee that
planned the Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex, of which the arena is a part."
Calvin's floor was installed by Michigan-based Foster Specialty Floors, which
also installed an award-winning surface at Davenport University.
Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
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