In Review

Six Rochester athletes earned All-America honors this spring, in basketball, squash, and the heptathlon.

Alexandra Leslie ’18 was named a first team All-American by D3hoops.com and a third team All-American by DIII News. Since the end of last season, Leslie has received eight postseason honors, including three All-America teams, two All-Region teams, and one All-League team. She was also named Player of the Year at both league and regional levels.

For the second straight year, and only the third time in the 58-year history of the squash program, Rochester had four All-Americans, as named by the College Squash Association. Ryosei Kobayashi ’17 and Mario Yanez Tapia ’17 were first team All-Americans, and Neil Cordell ’16 and Tomotaka Endo ’18 were second team.

The awards capped off the most successful season in Rochester squash history, as the Yellowjackets earned a 12–4 record and reached the national championship match for the first time, falling in a 5–4 match to host Yale.

Pat Rice ’16 produced outstanding finishes in his last two events in the NCAA Division III heptathlon and garnered All-America honors. He finished fourth overall with 4,931 points at the New York state championships this winter. That was just shy of his Rochester record in the competition (4,980 points).

—Dennis O’Donnell