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Division at the CSA and finished with a
                                                                                    record of 21-2—the second most wins
                                                                                    and third best winning percentage
                                                                                    (.913) in a single season at Rochester.
                                                                                    He earned Liberty League Performer of
                                                                                    the Week award six times.
                                                                                  •  Lawrence Kuhn ’19 was awarded the
                                                                                    CSA Scholar Athlete Award with a GPA
                                                                                    of 3.53. He was ranked in the top 50 all
                                                                                    season and finished his career in the
                                                                                    top 15 for all-time wins.
                                                                                  •  Ricardo Lopez ’19 was selected as the
                                     Becca Selznick ’19                             CSA Skillman Award winner as the na-
                                                                                    tion’s top well-rounded squash player.
                                                                                    He played #2 in every match but one
                                                                                    (#1) for the Yellowjackets this season
                                                                                    and reached the semifinals of the
          Men’s Swimming                      •  Sixteen Yellowjackets were recognized   Molloy Bracket of the CSA Individual
                                                                                    Championships.
          and Diving                            as UAA All-Academic: Eric Albuquer-  •  Matthew Toth ’20 reached the finals of
                                                que ’20, Aronson, Liam Bethlendy ’21,
                                                                                    the Molloy Bracket of the CSA Individ-
          (5-5)                                 Eric Chang ’21, Joshua Dennis ’20,   ual Championships. He was individu-
                                                Feirouz, Evan James ’21, Nicholas Lim
                                                                                    ally ranked as high as #31 nationally.
          TEAM HIGHLIGHTS                       ’19, Miles Markey ’19, Broc Miller ’19,   •  Davies, Kuhn, Lopez, Toth, and Thijs
          •  The Yellowjackets defeated rival RIT   Savchik, Jonathon Schubert ’19, Elliot   Van Der Pluijm ’22 were named to the
                                                Schwinn ’19, Paul Steve ’19, Villafranca,
            201-99, winning 14 of 16 events.    and Weidman.                        All-Liberty League team.
          •  The men defeated Grove City College,                                 •  Three team members were named
            Fredonia State, Alfred University, and                                  to the Liberty League All-Academic
            Buffalo State in regular season meets.  Squash                          Team: Warm Ayanaputra ’21, Siddhant
          •  The Yellowjackets earned CSCAA                                         Iyer ’21, and Kuhn.
            Scholar All-America accolades for   (14-4; 4-0 Liberty League)        •  Lopez and Davies reached the semifi-
            earning a GPA of 3.49. In order to   TEAM HIGHLIGHTS                    nals of the U.S. Intercollegiate Squash
            qualify for the honor, a team must                                      Doubles Championships.
            have a cumulative grade point aver-  •  Team finished #4 in the country in the
            age of 3.0 or higher.               College Squash Association Potter
          •  The team finished 3rd out of 11 teams   Cup Tournament.
            at the Ithaca Bomber Invitational with   •  Rochester defeated then #1 Trinity 6-3
            strong performances in the relays.  at Rochester.
          •  Rochester finished 7th at the UAA   •  The men had a seven-win streak dur-
            Championships.                      ing the season.
                                              •  The Yellowjackets had impressive wins
          INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS                 vs. Princeton University, Yale Univer-
                                                                                 Spring
          •  Stephen Savchik ’20 finished 6th in   sity, Columbia University, and Dart-
            the 1 meter diving competition and   mouth College.                  Spring
                                                                                       Schedules_
            11th in the 3 meter board at the   •  Rochester won the Liberty League
            NCAA Division III Zone Diving Cham-  title going 4-0 including a 9-0 win
            pionships. This was the third straight   over Hobart.                      Schedules_
            season that Savchik has competed at
            the zone meet.                    •  Martin Heath and Mario Yanez Tapia
          •  Eric Weidman ’20 had a top-10 fin-  won Liberty League Coaching Staff of   Spring sports start up
                                                the Year.
            ish in the 1,650 meter race at the                                       in March. For the latest
            UAA Championships with a time of   INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS
            16:15.81.                         •  Ashley Davies ’21 was selected as a First   updates and schedules,
          •  Rochester 400 freestyle relay team   Team All-American by the Collegiate
            finished 7th at the UAA Champion-   Squash Association. He was the Liberty   please visit our website
            ships. Members were Eric Feirouz ’19,   League Player of the Year and ended
            Eric Sonheim ’20, Evan Villafranca ’19,   the year undefeated in dual meets   at uofrathletics.com/
            and Danny Aronson ’19.              (18-0). He had a top-8 finish in the Pool


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