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WOMEN’S LACROSSE
2018 Spring Sports Wrap-Up (5-10, 4-6 Liberty League) • For the first time Rochester received a INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Gianna Mellilo ’19 and Marissa Russo ’21
bid to the National Invitational Rowing
Championships (NIRC). The Varsity 8+ placed
were named to the 2018 All-Liberty League
TEAM HIGHLIGHTS
Second Team
• The team won five of their last eight games fifth in the third-level final (17th overall) • Hannah Leahy ’21 was named 2018
and the Open 4+ placed fifth in the Grand
including a four-game win streak Final. The Championship included six of All-Liberty League Honorable Mention
• Rochester came within one game of the eight teams that will be at the NCAA • Harleigh Kaczegowicz ’19 was on the
making Liberty League playoffs Championships this year and 12 of the top pre-season top 50 watch list
• The Yellowjackets achieved a great 15 ranked teams in the nation • Alexis Pope ’21, Russo, and Leahy all
milestone with the program’s 200th win received Rookie of the Week honors
with a 10-5 victory over Union INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS throughout the season
• The team had a GPA of 3.48 • Liz Sadrakula ’20 was named to the All- • Haberly Kahn ’18 earned the Terrance
Liberty League Team Gurnett Female Scholar Award
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS • Six Yellowjackets earned Liberty League
• Three Yellowjackets were named to the All-Academic honors: Gianna Macri ’18, • Leahy threw a shutout to get the win
All-Liberty League Team: Gillian Schwartz ’18, Saralinda Schell ’19, against #19 Lynchburg
Jamison Seabury ’21, Madeline Levy ’18, Claudia Weaver ’19, Micaela Holmes ’20, and • Gabriela Alatorre ’18, Elizabeth Bourne ’19,
and Madeline Mullholand ’18 Kathleen Desmond ’20, Michaela Farmer ’20,
Elizabeth Sadrakula ’20
• Seventeen Yellowjackets earned Liberty • Schwartz, Macri, Weaver, and Holmes were Harleigh Kaczegowicz ’19, Haberly Kahn ’18,
League All-Academic honors, requiring a named to the CRCA All-Academic Team Gianna Melillo ’19, and Rachael Pletz ’19
GPA of 3.30 and above were all named to the Liberty League All-
• Macri, Schwartz, Weaver, Holmes, and Academic Team
Sadrakula earned NIRC All-Academic honors
WOMEN’S ROWING MEN’S TENNIS

TEAM HIGHLIGHTS SOFTBALL (8-13)
• The Yellowjackets had a strong performance (16-16, Liberty League 8-4) • Rochester defeated NYU, 5-4, in the 7th place
in the WPI Barbara Donahue Cup tying their match at the UAA Championships. With the
results from the previous year, which was TEAM HIGHLIGHTS match tied at 4-4 and sixth singles knotted at
their best ever • Rochester beat #6 ranked Fisher 1-0 on a one set each, Sahaj Somani ’20 rallied from a
• The University of Rochester finished fifth at 7th inning suicide squeeze bunt 4-1 deficit in the third set to win 7-5 and seal
the Liberty League Rowing Championships • The team traveled to Tucson, Arizona, to Rochester’s victory. That came two weeks
against top-ranked teams compete in the Lead-Off Classic against six after NYU won, 6-3 in the regular season. Big
• The Yellowjackets finished first in the Varsity top apponents in NCAA Division 111 wins also included Augustana during Spring
4+ and second in the Open 2 at the NY State • Earned an entry into the 2018 Liberty Break, Ithaca, Georgetown College, and St.
Championships League Championship Tournament
• Defeated #19 Lynchburg Lawrence University

Gianna Melillo ’19

All-Liberty League Second Team

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