Beth Schwing to Be Featured on CBS Fall Championships Show
INDIANAPOLIS-- Bloomsburg University women's cross country runner Beth Schwing (Hershey/Lower Dauphin) will be featured on the national TV broadcast of "CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA" that will air at 3:00 p.m. Eastern time, Saturday, December 29, on CBS.
Highlights and stories from cross country, field hockey, soccer and volleyball will be featured in the program. For the 2007-08 academic year, CBS Sports will feature over 40 of the NCAA's 88 championships in the three seasonal shows. For the fifth consecutive year, all 88 National Collegiate Athletic Association championships will receive television exposure, including 10 fall sports to be featured in a one-hour special.
Some of the student-athlete stories to be featured in the program include:
* Beth Schwing is running in the NCAA Division II Women's Cross Country Championship. This Bloomsburg University junior is in pursuit of something greater than a race time. Her father Kevin Schwing passed away suddenly just months ago and she is running to honor him and their history together.
* Nicodemus Naimadu has won three consecutive NCAA individual championships in Division II Men's Cross Country. This Abilene Christian University senior is looking to go down as one of the greatest runners in NCAA history if he can capture his fourth individual title in as many years.
* Melissa Harper, a sophomore at West Texas A&M University, playing in the NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball semifinals was sidelined last season with a serious heart condition that left her wondering if she'd every be able to play sports again.
* Santiago Mejia and Miguel Bonilla have come a long way from Medellin, Colombia to Dubuque, Iowa to play soccer. The two childhood friends are trying to make history at Loras College by winning their school's first national championship in any sport at this year's Division III Men's Soccer Championship.
* Larry Bock, head coach of Juniata College's women's volleyball team, is hoping to defend his team's national championship and add to his record of winningest coach in NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball.CBS Sports' Sam Ryan will host "CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA," for the second time. Ryan joined CBS Sports in June 2006 as a contributor to the Network's NFL pre-game show, THE NFL TODAY, and the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship. She also serves as weekend sports anchor and reporter for CBS 2 in New York.
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