Page 10 - Summer 2017 Rochester Athletics Newsletter | University of Rochester

2016 Winter Sports Wrap-Up Continued

MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING (8-3-1) • Neu was awarded with the UAA Diver of the Week award after posting two
NCAA Zone qualifying scores and setting a new pool record in the three-
Team Highlights meter competition against Nazareth College and finished in 14th place of
• The Yellowjacets had a strong start to their season, defeating Brandeis 29 competitors at the NCAA Zone Diving Championships for the one-meter
University and winning 11 individual swim events and two relays board
• The men beat Hartwick College with multiple quality swims • Eleven Yellowjackets were awarded UAA All-Academic recognition and
• The team earned CSCAA Scholar All-America accolades for earning a GPA of named to the Liberty League All-Academic Team
3.0 or higher • Khamai Simpson ’17 earned a Fulbright grant for research and study
• Rochester defeated the host Grove city and Gannon University at the Grove
City College meets
• The Yellowjackets finished second at the Liberty League Championships SQUASH (13-4; 3-1 LIBERTY LEAGUE)
Individual Highlights Team Highlights
• Elliot Schwinn ’19 won the 1,650 freestyle and Eric Sonheim ’20 won the 100 • The Yellowjackets defeated #1 Trinity College 5-4 after coming back from
freestyle in their meet against Canisius College and Brandeis University a two-game deficit. This earned them a #1 ranking by the College Squash
• Sonheim was selected as men’s Swimming Rookie of the Week by the Liberty Association for the first time in the 59-year history of the squash program at
League after his performance over Hartwick College and was selected as the University of Rochester
Rookie of the Meet for winning the 100- and 200-yard freestyles at the • Rochester bested reigning National Champions Yale 8-1 in New Haven
Liberty League Championships • The men started off the season with four great wins against Dartmouth
• Stephen Savchik ’20 had an impressive performance against Nazareth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale
College winning in both the one-meter and the three-meter diving events • The ’Jackets had an impressive win over #10 Cornell beating them 9-0
setting a new Rochester record on the one-meter • Rochester earned fifth place in the College Squash Association Potter Cup
• Arlen Fan ’18 broke the Rochester record for the 100 breaststroke at the UAA Tournament after defeating #6 Drexel University
Championships with a time of 56.79 as well as the 200 breaststroke school Individual Highlights
record in a time of 2:07.09
• Ryosei Kobayashi ’17 won the Skillman Award, the Heisman Trophy of
• Three Yellowjackets were awarded with Liberty League awards after their
Squash, given to a senior men’s squash player who has demonstrated
performances in the UAA Championships: Fan was named the men’s
outstanding sportsmanship during his entire college career. He also became
Swimmer of the Week, Eric Weidman ’20 was named the Rookie of the Week,
the first Rochester squash player to win the Price-Bullington Invitational
and Savchik was named the Diver of the Week
earning him Liberty League Squash Performer of the Week, was named
• Nine Yellowjackets were recognized as UAA All-Academic and 10 were
Liberty League Squash Performer of the Week for his performance against
named to the Liberty League All-Academic Team
Trinity College, and was nationally recognized as the College Squash
• Savchik finished in 12th place out of 17 divers at the NCAA Zone Diving
Association/Harrow Sports Male Player of the Week
Championships
• Michelangelo Bertocchi ’18 was awarded the CSA Scholar Athlete Award
• Betocchi and and Ricardo Lopez ’20 competed at the U.S. Squash
WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING (10-2) Intercollegiate Doubles Championships and reached the semifinals
• Tomotaka Endo ’18 and Lopez earned Performer of the Week and Rookie of
Team Highlights the Week honors respectively after their performances against Dartmouth
• The Yellowjackets had an impressive win over Hartwick College beating them University
166-121 with four women being double winners in swimming • Mario Yanez ’17 earned two wins at the CSA Championships sending him to
• The women finished in first place after Day 1 at the Liberty League compete for the CSA individual national title finishing as the #2 ranked player
Championships and won their eighth consecutive women’s swimming and in the CSA this season and earning his fourth First Team All-American honor.
diving championship after finishing first of 10 institutions He was also a Skillman Award finalist.
• Rochester finished its 10-2 record with a 163-130 victory over RIT • Endo ended with a B division championship for the second straight year to
• The team earned CSCAA Scholar All-America accolades for earning a GPA of earn him his third straight All-American honor
3.0 or higher • Lawrence Kuhn ’19 defeated the #3, #2, and #1 seeds of the Molloy North
Bracket earning him an All-American award
Individual Highlights
• Alex Veech ’17 was named Swimmer of the Week, Danielle Neu ’17 earned • Seniors Kobayashi and Tapia were named First Team CSA All-Americans; Endo
Diver of the Week, and Monica Jackson ’20 was named the Female Rookie of and Kuhn earned Second Team All-American accolades
the Week after their performances against Hartwick College • Seven team members were named Liberty League All Academic Team:
• Tess Minigell was an individual winner in the 200 fly and the 100 free and Kobayashi, Yanez, Ben Pitfield ’18, Endo, Numair Sani ’18, Rodrigo Porras ’19,
swam on two winning relays, the 200 medley and the 200 relay, against SUNY and Bertocchi
Fredonia and Alfred University