Moliner, Loboda Named Gannon Student-Athletes of the Week

General | 1/19/2026 9:30:00 AM

ERIE, PA – Elisa Moliner (Zaragoza, Spain/IES Francisco de Goya) (Women’s Swimming) & Kuba Loboda (Lublin, Poland) (Men’s Swimming) have been named the Gannon Student-Athletes of the Week for the week of January nineteenth. Both contributed to dominant workforce performances on Saturday, when each the boys’s and girls’s groups swept Oberlin and Malone of their ultimate dwelling meet of the common season. 

Moliner was dominant within the lengthy distance races on Saturday. The freshman took command of the 1000 yard freestyle, taking first with a time of 10:51.57, practically 20 seconds higher than her seed time. She was greater than 45 seconds sooner than the following finest finisher. In the five hundred yard freestyle, it was extra of the identical for the native of Spain. Moliner gained the occasion with a time of 5:18.48.

Loboda was equally as incredible on the boys’s facet. The junior set a pool document within the 100 yard butterfly, clocking in at 48.73. He was the one swimmer within the discipline to go sub-50 seconds on Saturday. Loboda would comply with up the victory by capturing the win within the 100 breaststroke, incomes a time of 57.22 and simply edging out senior teammate Malachi Boyle (Knoxville, Tenn./Home Life Academy) by three tenths of a second. 

2025-26 Gannon University Athlete of the Week Previous Recipients

Week 1 (9/8/2025) 

Alexis Abbett (Women’s Cross Country)

Victor Volant (Men’s Water Polo)

Week 2 (9/15/2025)

Abbey Williams (Chicago, Ill./Mother Mcauley Liberal Arts) (Volleyball)

Jack Kenyon (Men’s Soccer)

Week 3 (9/22/2025)

Emily Bowers (Women’s Cross Country)

Alexandros Kotskar (Men’s Water Polo)

Week 4 (9/29/2025) 

Nehir Yazicioglu (Ankara, Turkey) (Volleyball)

Nikiforos Liantziris (Men’s Water Polo)

 

Week 5 (10/6/2025) 

Brooklyn Respecki (Women’s Soccer)

Damario Moore (Football)

 

Week 6 (10/13/2025) 

Cloe Mateo (Women’s Golf)

Ty Hurst (Football)

 

Week 7 (10/20/2025) 

Sydney Wake (Massillon, Ohio/Jackson) (Volleyball)

Frederik Paulsen (Men’s Soccer)

 

Week 8 (10/27/2025) 

Kasey Smith (Meadville, Pa./Villa Maria) (Volleyball)

Sverre Orten (Men’s Soccer)

 

Week 9 (11/3/2025) 

Bengisu Arslan (Ankara, Turkey/Private Çankaya Doga Anatolian) (Volleyball)

Rafa Hyde (Men’s Soccer)

 

Week 10 (11/10/2025) 

Mariia Melnyk (Kyiv, Ukraine/Education Center Optima) (Women’s Swimming)

Patrick Jackson (Harpers Ferry, WV/Spring Mills High) (Men’s Wrestling)

 

Week 11 (11/17/2025) 

Kate Ratliff (Canal Winchester, Ohio/Canal Winchester) (Women’s Basketball)

Kasper Alfei Saebo (Men’s Soccer)

 

Week 12 (11/24/2025) 

Mariia Melnyk (Kyiv, Ukraine/Education Center Optima) (Women’s Swimming)

Bator Mohacsi (Men’s Water Polo)

 

Week 13 (12/1/2025) 

Maddy Wheatley (Canberra, Australia/UCSSC Lake Ginninderra) (Women’s Basketball)

Enzo Rekka (Men’s Soccer)

 

Week 14 (12/8/2025) 

Lauren Atwell (Mars, Pa./Mars Area) (Volleyball)

Lucas Morgan (Sydney, Australia/Marist Catholic College North Shore) (Men’s Basketball)

Week 15 (12/15/2025) 

Jerry Echevarria (Long Beach, N.Y./Long Beach) (Men’s Wrestling)

Jaylene Martinez (Women’s Wrestling)

Week 16 (1/5/2026)

Mia Slater (Canberra, Australia/Canberra Grammar School) (Women’s Basketball)

Lucas Sekasi (Men’s Basketball)

Week 17 (1/12/2026)

Jordan Popyk (Novi, Mich./Novi) (Women’s Basketball)

Dillon Walker (Mason, Ohio/Mason) (Men’s Wrestling)

Week 18 (1/19/2026)

Elisa Moliner (Zaragoza, Spain/IES Francisco de Goya) (Women’s Swimming)

Kuba Loboda (Lublin, Poland) (Men’s Swimming)