Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, February 19, 1994 TAG: 9402210339
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Osborne, a junior majoring in early childhood development and communications, has a 3.91 grade-point average. Gilbert, a senior history major, has a 4.0 grade-point average at Radford.
"She embodies the concept of a student-athlete," Radford coach Lubomyr Lichonczak said of Gilbert.
Osborne, from Burlington, Ky., is a two-time GTE District III selection, and was the Metro Conference Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1993. Osborne averages 14 points per game, second on the Hokies.
Gilbert, from Auckland, New Zealand, averages 9.1 points and a team-high 6.5 rebounds off the bench for the Highlanders.
District III is made up of schools from Virginia, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Others on the team are South Carolina's Nicki Bass, Old Dominion's Deanna Vander Plas and Appalachian State's Penny Roberson.
In other sports in the region:
In Radford, Washington and Lee swimmers set two school records and dominated the first day of the three-day Atlantic States/Old Dominion Athletic Conference women's championships Friday at the Dedmon Center.
The Generals won all five events, scoring 286 points to 120 for second-place Notre Dame, Md. Sweet Briar is third at 111, followed by Hollins (105), Randolph-Macon Woman's College (87), Mary Baldwin (70), Radford (63) and a University of North Carolina club team (27).
The freestyle relay team of Jen Miller, Jill Sheets, Laura Marshall and Rebekkah Prince set school, ODAC and pool records with a time of 1 minute, 43.09 seconds. The 400-yard medley relay team of Prince, Sheets, Staci Bertelli and Miller set school and ODAC records with a time of 4:10.86.
In Davidson, N.C., Washington and Lee was second after the first day of the Southern States men's swimming and diving championships.
The Generals, led by Craig Sears' second-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley, had 170.5 points to College of Charleston's 180. VMI was ninth with 85 points.
In Johnson City, Tenn., Frank Boehling won the shot put to help VMI place third after the first day of the Southern Conference indoor track and field championships.
Boehling took the event with a toss of 50 feet, 10 3/4 inches, edging teammate Jason Clendenin (50-8 1/4). The Keydets have 24 points to trail Western Carolina (34 points) and East Tennessee State (30).
Terry Holland, Davidson's athletic director and a former Virginia basketball coach, will be the guest speaker Tuesday evening as the Roanoke Valley Sports Club resumes its regular meeting schedule at the Salem Civic Center after a one-month break.
Holland is a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee, the group that selects and seeds the field for the 64-team tournament. Holland will discuss that process at the dinner, which begins with a social at 5:45 p.m.
Reservations are $10 in advance and $12 at the door for members, and $15 for guests. Reservations may be made by calling Dan Wooldridge at 389-7373 or Jody Moir at 989-5927.
by CNB