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Bryce Ikeda ’19 Nancy Bansbach ’19

four seasons have been the most success-
ful in program history. She was a First Team

the fifth Rochester player to earn First Team All-American by the National Field Hockey
All-America honors), First Team All-American Coaches Association and Liberty League
by D3soccer.com, and NCAA Final Four Player of the Year in 2018. Bansbach also
All-Tournament Team. His accolades also was a two-year captain and played in the
included a number of academic awards. He NFHCA’s Senior All-Star Game.
was named to the UAA All-Academic Team
for three years (sophomore through senior), John Vitone Award
named to the USC Scholar All-Region team
twice, and as a USC Scholar All-American Lawrence Kuhn, a senior on the squash
twice. He was elected as a Google Cloud team, was selected as the winner of the
Academic All-American by the College John Vitone Award for 2019. The award is
Sports Information Directors of America in given to the Male Sportsman of the Year.
2018 and was honored as a Garnish Scholar-
Athlete.

Sylvia Fabricant Award

Nancy Bansbach, a senior of the women’s
field hockey team was honored as the recipi-
ent of the Sylvia Fabricant Award for 2019.
This award is presented to a female athlete
or athletes for outstanding sportsmanship
in the women’s intercollegiate sports. From
Fayetteville, New York, Bansbach helped
field hockey reach the NCAA Division III
Tournament in each of her four seasons Lawrence Kuhn ’19
and the Elite Eight three times. These past

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