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2018–19 Departmental

Award Winners

At the annual Athletic Awards Dinner on May 2, 2019, six Rochester athletes
were recognized for outstanding achievement:

Merle Spurrier Award 2019. In her career, Bartlett won nine confer-
ence championships between the Liberty
Kylee Bartlett, a senior member of the League and the NYSCTC. She holds the Lib-
women’s track and field team was honored erty League championship meet record for
as the recipient of the Merle Spurrier Award, the 60 meter hurdles, the 100 meter hurdles,
which recognizes the senior woman who and the heptathlon. She holds the NYSCTC
has made the most outstanding contribu- Championship Meet Record in the heptath-
tion to women’s sports by exemplifying lon. She holds Rochester records in the pen-
such qualities as leadership, enthusiasm, tathlon, heptathlon, 60 meter hurdles, and
and service in her four years at the Univer- 100 meter hurdles. Her score of 3,698 points
sity. Bartlett, from Willamstown, New York, in the 2019 NCAA Pentathlon Championship
is one of the most accomplished athletes is the fifth highest score in NCAA Division III
in Rochester history. In five appearances history for that event. Bartlett was elected
at the NCAA Division III Track and Field as a Google Cloud Academic All-American
Championships, she won three national in 2017 and 2018. She was a three-time All-
championships, finished second once, and Academic selection by the U.S. Track & Field
finished fourth once. She was the NCAA and Cross Country Coaches Association
Division III heptathlon champion (outdoors) (2017, 2018, 2019).
in 2017 and 2018, the pentathlon champion
(indoors) in 2017, finished fourth in the Louis Alexander Award
pentathlon in 2018, and finished second in

Bryce Ikeda, a senior on the men’s soccer
team was honored as the recipient of the
Louis Alexander Alumni Award for 2019 as
Kylee Bartlett ’19 the top men’s senior athlete at the Univer-
sity. This award is given to the senior male
athlete who has made an outstanding con-
tribution to the life of the University through
significant achievements in athletics and
general student activities. Ikeda, from
Tacoma, Washington, was a four-year starter
and letter winner. He played in every match
as a collegian—75 in all—and started 72 of
those and captained the team in his junior
and senior years. Honors included First Team
All-Region by the United Soccer Coaches
(USC), First Team All-American by USC (just

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