The Muhlenberg College golf team has received a bid to the 1999 NCAA Division III Tournament, to be held May 17-20 at Taconic Golf Club in Williamstown, Mass. The Mules, who will golf in the national tournament for the first time ever, received the bid after winning their second Centennial Conference championship in three years. Muhlenberg wasone of 23 schools selected from six regional districts for the NCAA Tournament. Golf is the fourth Muhlenberg team sport, along with men's soccer and men's and women's basketball, to qualify for the NCAA Tournament the last two years. In addition, the wrestling team sent three individuals to the nationals this winter.

BOER NAMED TO ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA FIRST TEAM
Muhlenberg senior Celina Boer has been named to the first team of the 1999 GTE Academic All-America Fall/Winter At-Large Team. A biology major, Boer holds 12 school records in women's soccer, including most career goals (44), assists (20) and points (108). She is Muhlenberg's first first-team Academic All-American since 1990. Boer was selected in the College Division, which includes all athletes competing in NCAA Divisions II and III and NAIA Divisions I and II in the sports of cross country, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, rifle, skiing, soccer and swimming.

WATERBURY IS FREE THROW CHAMP
Amanda Waterbury, a senior forward on the Muhlenberg women's basketball team, was the top free-throw shooter in Division III this year, according to statistics released by the NCAA this week.Waterbury made 91 of her 103 attempts from the charity stripe for a 88.3 percent success rate, nipping second-place Helen Dinan of Regis (Mass.) College by 0.05 percent. Her percentage is the 13th-best in Division III history, and third-best for shooters with more than 100 attempts. Waterbury, who averaged 10.4 points and 6.3 rebounds for the 16-10 Mules, is the first NCAA statistical champion for the Muhlenberg women's basketball program, and the first for the school since football player Rob Lokerson led Division III in receiving yards per game in 1993.

BILLIE NAMED PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Muhlenberg senior catcher Elizabeth Billie has been named player of the year by the Centennial Conference softball coaches. She is only the fourth Muhlenberg athlete to earn CC player of the year honors; three of them have come from the softball program.Billie hit a team-best .450 in 1999 and also led the Mules with school-record totals in hits (58), doubles (12), triples (5), extra-base hits (19) and total bases (86). She drove in 31 runs and set or tied 11 school records during the season. Billie also became the fourth player in league history named to the All-Conference first team three straight years. Three other Muhlenberg softball players earned All-Conference honors. Click here for the complete list in all sports.

SOFTBALL HAS TO SETTLE FOR SECOND
The Muhlenberg softball team had to settle for second place, its best finish ever, in the 1999 Centennial Conference race. Gettysburg clinched the outright title by splitting a doubleheader at Ursinus on the final day of the regular season. Standings through games of May 2:

              CC    All 
Gettysburg  13-3   26-11
MUHLENBERG  12-4   22-19
Dickinson   11-5   25-9
Western Md. 10-6   20-12
Ursinus     10-6   22-21
F & M        7-9   11-10
Washington   6-10  18-14
Haverford    2-14   7-29
Swarthmore   1-15   1-24