Swimming Groups Sweep Weekly Awards; Six Extra Named Honor Roll

TROY, N.Y. –  Both the Union College males’s and girls’s swimming & diving groups swept their weekly Liberty League awards whereas six extra student-athletes have been named to their respective sports activities’ honor rolls for the week ending on October 5, the convention workplace introduced on Monday afternoon.

Men’s Swimming & Diving Swimmer of the Week: Drew Hill
Hill helped lead the Garnet Chargers to a 1-1 weekend at their house tri-meet towards Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Gym Pool. Hill was the very best scoring swimmer on the meet, successful all 4 of his occasions, good for 27 factors. He set the pool file with a 54.34 efficiency within the 100 IM, additionally reaching a private finest. Additionally, Hill received the 100 fly (51.89), the 50 fly (23.57), and likewise swam the butterfly leg of Union’s first-place 200 medley relay (1:37.61).

Men’s Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week: Troy Luley
Luley was the second-highest scoring swimmer at Saturday’s meet towards Clarkson and St. Lawrence, reaching the rostrum in all 4 of his occasions and successful three of them. He earned 21 factors for his staff, and his third-place 58.24 time within the 100 IM was a lifetime finest. Luley additionally received the five hundred free (4:57.58), the 100 breast (1:00.21), and likewise swam the breaststroke leg of the successful 200 medley relay (1:37.61).

Women’s Swimming & Diving Swimmer of the Week: Ali Sweeney
Sweeney led the Garnet Chargers to a 2-1 weekend at their quad-meet towards Clarkson, St. Lawrence and Smith on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Gym Pool. Sweeney was Union’s high-point swimmer, incomes 18 factors for the Garnet Chargers, and tied for probably the most factors general. Sweeney championed the 50 breast (34.11) and the 100 breast (1:14.42), and swam the breaststroke leg of the Union’s third-place 200 medley relay, together with her time of 33.87 the second-fastest breaststroke leg by any staff within the occasion.

Women’s Swimming & Diving Rookie of the Week: Julia Garber
Garber set the Alumni Gym Pool file within the 100 IM with a lifetime-best of 1:04.95, serving to Union to a 2-1 Saturday. She earned 13 factors for the Garnet Chargers throughout the entire meet with a win, a second-place end, and a third-place end throughout 4 occasions. She not solely swam all 4 strokes for Union in her record-setting IM, however she additionally swam three completely different strokes throughout her different three occasions within the fly, the free relay, and the breaststroke leg of the medley relay. She positioned second within the 100 fly (1:02.85), swam the third leg of Union’s third-place 200 freestyle relay (1:49.68), and swam the breaststroke leg of Union’s fifth-place 200 medley relay (2:01.48).

Honor Roll Mentions:

Football: Patch Flanagan
Flanagan mixed for 251 whole yards and three touchdowns in Union’s 28-6 win over Buffalo State on Saturday. He accomplished 14-of-19 passes for 131 yards and a landing whereas additionally dashing 15 occasions for 120 yards (8.0 ypr) and a pair of scores. After the Bengals obtained inside a landing early within the third quarter, Flanagan led back-to-back landing drives to seal the win, ending each drives with a 23-yard landing go and a 41-yard landing run, respectively.

Women’s Golf: Iyene Essien
Essien posted one other top-five end out of 51 golfers on the Hamilton Invitational over the weekend, carding rounds of 75 and 78 to complete the weekend in a tie for fourth place at 153. On the weekend, the sophomore recorded a course-best seven birdies and performed the par-threes at a mixed two-under par, tops on the sphere. Her weekend rating ties her for fifth on the college two-day scoring ledger and already provides her eight of the top-10 spots on that record. 

Men’s Soccer: Jacob Perry
Perry made eight saves as a part of a 1-0-1 week for Union. The senior stopped 5 pictures in a 2-1 win over King’s (Pa.) on Tuesday, then had all three of his stops within the second half as Union got here again to tie Rensselaer, 1-1, in Saturday.

Women’s Soccer: Grace Beazoglou
Beazoglou helped the Union defensive unit to back-to-back shutout wins and solely six mixed pictures allowed towards Bard and Rensselaer final week, and likewise offered the one objective of the sport with a 40-yard strike within the 59th minute in Saturday’s 1-0 win over the Engineers. The objective was her first collegiate tally.

Women’s Volleyball: Maddie McCarron
In her solely match of the week, McCarron pulled off an unconventional double-double with a team-best 12 kills (on .423 hitting) and 10 blocks in a 3-1 win at Skidmore on Saturday. The junior had at the very least two kills and one block in each set and completed her day with a flourish, placing down three kills and including two blocks as a part of a game-clinching 8-1 run to complete the fourth set. Her 10 blocks are probably the most by a Liberty League participant this season and probably the most by a Union participant in virtually precisely a decade.

Women’s Volleyball: Shea Ringel
Ringel recorded 16 kills on .272 hitting in 5 units final week as Union break up two matches. She performed just one set towards Middlebury on Wednesday however made it depend, placing down six kills on 9 errorless assaults (.667) whereas including two digs and a block. She adopted up with 10 kills, 4 digs and two aces in Union’s 3-1 win on the street at Skidmore on Saturday.