Fall 2012 Issue - Colby-Sawyer College

Senior Brittney Murphy finished her career as Colby-Sawyer’s all-time leader in points, goals
and assists, and was named to the All-NAC First Team.
Other members of
the team who earned
All-NAC awards included
senior defender Allie
Piper (Barre, Vt.) and
junior defender Amanda
Murray (Norwood,
Mass.), who appeared on
the first team. Second
Team honorees were
senior attacker Molly
Prudden (Andover, Mass.)
and junior midfielder Kate
Rial (Chester Springs, Pa.).
Men’s Tennis
(9-12; 5-0 NAC East)
In its first season with the
North Atlantic Conference
(NAC), the Colby-Sawyer
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men’s tennis team went
9-12 overall and was a
perfect 5-0 in conference
play. The Chargers won
the NAC East Division and
played the NAC West
Division winners, Penn
State-Harrisburg, with a
trip to the NCAA’s on
the line. The Chargers fell
6-3 to Harrisburg, ending
the season at 9-12. The
Chargers, who dropped
just one set out of 45
in conference play, went
5-0 to earn the top seed
in the East Division.
Colby-Sawyer breezed past
Castleton 9-0 in the
semifinals and won the
East title with an 8-1
victory over Johnson.
Five members of the team
earned All-Conference
honors, highlighted by
Co-Rookie of the Year
freshman Justin Pinard
(Essex, Vt.). Pinard
also was named to the
All-NAC First Team. Pinard
and senior Jamie
Thormann (Northeast
Harbor, Maine) were
named to the All-
Conference Doubles First
Team. Thormann also
landed on the Singles First
Team. Junior Reeve Fidler
(Groton, Mass.) was the
third member of the
Chargers to appear on
the First Team. He and
freshman teammate
Nolan Foley (Jaffrey, N.H.)
were named to the
All-NAC Doubles First
Team. Freshman Clay Allen
(Massena, N.Y.) earned
a nod to the All-NAC
Second Team.
Track and Field
The 2012 men’s and
women’s track and
field team had one of the
best seasons in school
history. A total of 11 school
records were set; six on
the women’s side and five
on the men’s side. Several
athletes qualified to
compete in the New
England Championships
and senior Kristin Sawyer
(Walpole, Mass.), freshman
Jesse Socci (Wilton,
Conn.) and junior Matt
Van Vliet (Bridgton,
Maine) competed at the
Eastern College Athletic
Conference (ECAC)
Championships.
Sawyer earned All-ECAC
honors after placing
seventh in the hammer
throw with a school record
distance of 47.52 meters.
Socci also set a school
record at the ECAC’s. He
recorded a distance of
14.35 meters in the shot
put. Earlier in the year,
Van Vliet equaled the
school record in the high