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Sports Briefs: UCLA's Olson has surgery on broken right foot
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Published: August 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- UCLA quarterback Ben Olson had surgery yesterday to put a new screw and do a bone graft in his broken right foot.
Olson, a senior whose career has been interrupted by a string of injuries and had suffered the same injury in spring practice, is expected to miss at least two months and five games.
The Bruins are scheduled to open their season at home against Tennessee on Sept. 1.
Olson re-injured his foot at practice on Saturday when he faked a handoff and took a misstep.
He has started 10 games over the past two seasons and missed 11 games because of various injuries. He had been relegated to the backup role behind Patrick Cowan last spring, but Cowan had surgery after hurting his knee in spring practice and will miss the season.
Kevin Craft, a junior-college transfer, and redshirt freshman Chris Forcier are expected to compete for the starting job in Olson's absence.
More college football
■ Three teams from the South Atlantic Conference -- No. 6 Carson-Newman, No. 19 Catawba and No. 20 Newberry -- were ranked in the American Football Coaches Association's Division II preseason poll released yesterday.
Valdosta State, the defending Division II champion, was ranked No. 1 with 17 first-place votes and 627 points.
Also in the poll was Virginia Union, which tied for 25th.
■ Rich Skrosky has been promoted to run-game coordinator at Elon, Coach Pete Lembo announced yesterday.
Skrosky, a 25-year veteran, joined the staff at Elon as the offensive-line coach in 2005. He also has been an assistant or coordinator at Columbia, Monmouth, Ramapo and Rutgers and was the head coach at Ramapo, his alma mater, for one season.
■ Georgia will have to recast plans for its offensive line after losing left tackle Trinton Sturdivant for the season. Coach Mark Richt said yesterday that Sturdivant will have reconstructive surgery on his left knee after he was injured in the team's first preseason scrimmage Monday.
Sturdivant started 13 games as a freshman last season.
■ Quarterback Stephen Garcia of South Carolina is expected to miss about a week of practice -- this time because of an injury. Coach Steve Spurrier said that Garcia has a sprained right ankle.
Garcia, listed as the third-team quarterback, returned from a more than four-month university suspension Aug. 1 to join the team for preseason practice. He has had three run-ins with police since arriving on campus in January 2007.
Basketball
■ Jacki Silar, Duke's associate athletics director, has been named chairwoman of the NCAA Division I women's basketball committee for 2008-09.
She succeeds Judy Southard, LSU's senior associate athletics director, who chaired the committee the past two years.
Silar was Duke's field-hockey coach for 15 years and women's assistant basketball coach for 12 seasons, She was named the school's first senior woman administrator in 1995.
■ Ben Strong, a 6-10 center who finished his career at Guilford last winter, has signed a two-year contract to play professional basketball in Israel with the Maccabi Haifa Heat, college officials announced yesterday. The Heat qualified for a spot in Ligat HaAl, Israel's top league, after a 10-year absence.
Strong averaged 25.8 points, 10.8 rebounds and 2.2 blocks last season and was the Old Dominion Athletic Conference player of the year and an NABC first-team Division III All-America.
■ Two former Davidson basketball players, Matt McKillop and Terrell Ivory, have joined Coach Bob McKillop's staff at Davidson. Matt McKillop will be an assistant coach, and Ivory will be the director of operations.
Matt McKillop, whose playing career ended in 2006, was an assistant at Emory last season. Ivory, who last played for the Wildcats in 2004, spent the past three seasons as an assistant at Blair Academy in New Jersey.
Miscellaneous
■ N.C. State has hired Jenny Keim, a former Olympian and NCAA champion, as its diving coach, Coach Brooks Teal of the Wolfpack announced yesterday. Keim spent last season as the assistant diving coach at Duke and spent three seasons before that as the head coach at Liberty.
Keim won NCAA championships for Miami on the three-meter springboard and platform in 1999 and 2000 and was a three-time All-America for the Hurricanes. She also competed for the United States in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
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