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Former Arizona Wildcats star Kim Glass will be officially named to the U.S. Olympic volleyball team today.

Glass, one of the most decorated volleyball players in UA history, spent most of this summer as a member of the U.S. national team playing exhibitions and trying to make the final 12-player cut for the Olympic team.

Glass, a 23-year-old outside hitter, was a three-time All-American at the UA. She is from Lancaster, Pa.

She led Fenerbahce Acibadem to the Turkish League title this past season.

Jesse Mermuys, a Tucson native who rose to become the Arizona Wildcats director of basketball operations, will become the Denver Nuggets video coordinator.

Mermuys, who replaced Jack Murphy at the UA, will do the same in Denver — Murphy has been promoted to advanced scout.

Mermuys, a 28-year-old Salpointe Catholic High School graduate, came to the UA two years ago from New Mexico State. The opportunity to move to the NBA was too good to pass up, he said.

"I'm in the best place I've been personally," he said. "I went from being a camper at coach (Lute) Olson's camps to being a coach at the camp to being the camp director."

Mermuys said he told Olson on Tuesday that Matt Brase — Olson's grandson and a former player who has shared responsibilities with Mermuys for two years — is capable of inheriting his duties.

When news came down about the elimination of his men's swim program in mid-May, ASU coach Mike Chasson never wallowed in his bad fortune. He immediately went to work, and it paid off Wednesday.

The men's swim team has raised enough money to have its program reinstated and expects to have itself fully endowed by 2012.

A payment of $330,000 has gone to the athletic department, with a promise to pay $330,000 on Dec. 31 and $340,000 on March 31, 2009.

"It was a shock" when they eliminated the program, Chasson said. "But we weren't going to spend a lot of time crying about it. We just needed to get after it right away. We knew time was of the essence. If we got after it right away, we had a better chance of coming back."

The men's swim team will compete next season with approximately 15 swimmers, down from the usual 20 to 25.

The money raised has come from 400 donors nationwide, and the $1 million can sustain the program for around four years. They need $5 million to fully endow the program.

— East Valley Tribune

LOS ANGELES — Former UA forward Luke Walton of the Lakers will have surgery Friday to remove bone spurs from his right ankle, the team said Tuesday.

Walton missed eight games during the 2007-08 season.

He averaged 7.2 points and 3.9 rebounds last season off the bench but floundered in the postseason.

In 21 playoff games, Walton averaged six points and 2.6 rebounds in limited action, averaging 16.8 minutes in 21 games.

● The Clippers acquired center Marcus Camby from the Nuggets on Tuesday for the option to exchange second-round picks with the Clippers in 2010.

Camby led the NBA in blocked shots last season with 3.61 per game and averaged 9.1 points and 13.1 rebounds.

Track coach Trevor Graham received a lifetime ban from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Tuesday for his role in helping his athletes obtain performance-enhancing drugs.

He was convicted in May of one count of lying to federal investigators about his relationship to an admitted steroids dealer. He is still awaiting sentencing and has asked a judge to toss out his conviction.