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Norfolk State Coach Retires
By Herb White, AOL Black Voices MEAC Columnist,
Posted: 2007-02-09 13:26:30
The last coach to take a black college women's basketball team to a national title is retiring.
Norfolk State’s James Sweat announced Feb. 1 that he will retire at season’s end, his 19th with the Spartans. Sweat has compiled a 343-210 record with the Spartans and an overall record of 526-254 spanning 26 seasons on the college level. His 1988 Hampton team won the Division II national championship.
“During my 19 years of service to Norfolk State, I hope that I have been an asset to the athletics department and the university,” he said. “I hope that I have made a positive impact on the faculty and staff and especially the fine student-athletes I have had the chance to interact with.”
When NSU was in Division II, Sweat’s teams earned five South Atlantic Regional berths and won five CIAA titles. The Spartan women won the South Atlantic Regional championship and advanced to the 1991 NCAA Division II Final Four with a school-record 33 wins.
• Streaking is in for a couple of women’s basketball teams Coppin State ran its winning streak to seven games with a 77-47 win over Maryland Eastern Shore while N.C. A&T pushed its roll to seven straight home games with a victory over Hampton in Greensboro.
• Hampton’s women track athletes continued their torrid indoor season at the Penn National Open in University Park, Pa.
Senior Yvette Lewis sped past Tennessee’s Nia Ali to win the 60-meter hurdles with a clocking of 8.17 seconds and Francen McCorory won the 500 meters with a school-record 1 minute, 9.16 seconds.
The 3200 relay squad of Marlene Belizaire, Kenya Jones, Starema Flood and Krystle Medlin set a new school standard of 9:01.83 to knock off Georgetown for the win.
Norfolk State’s James Sweat announced Feb. 1 that he will retire at season’s end, his 19th with the Spartans. Sweat has compiled a 343-210 record with the Spartans and an overall record of 526-254 spanning 26 seasons on the college level. His 1988 Hampton team won the Division II national championship.
“During my 19 years of service to Norfolk State, I hope that I have been an asset to the athletics department and the university,” he said. “I hope that I have made a positive impact on the faculty and staff and especially the fine student-athletes I have had the chance to interact with.”
When NSU was in Division II, Sweat’s teams earned five South Atlantic Regional berths and won five CIAA titles. The Spartan women won the South Atlantic Regional championship and advanced to the 1991 NCAA Division II Final Four with a school-record 33 wins.
• Streaking is in for a couple of women’s basketball teams Coppin State ran its winning streak to seven games with a 77-47 win over Maryland Eastern Shore while N.C. A&T pushed its roll to seven straight home games with a victory over Hampton in Greensboro.
• Hampton’s women track athletes continued their torrid indoor season at the Penn National Open in University Park, Pa.
Senior Yvette Lewis sped past Tennessee’s Nia Ali to win the 60-meter hurdles with a clocking of 8.17 seconds and Francen McCorory won the 500 meters with a school-record 1 minute, 9.16 seconds.
The 3200 relay squad of Marlene Belizaire, Kenya Jones, Starema Flood and Krystle Medlin set a new school standard of 9:01.83 to knock off Georgetown for the win.
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