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28 manhattan.edu Continued from pg. 27 – Women’s Basketball In addition to sweeping the season series against conference opponents Niagara, Fairfield and Rider, Manhattan had notable wins over rival Fordham University, as well as 2006 Patriot League Champion Army. The Lady J’s took down Fordham in the Battle of the Bronx for the second consecutive year behind 12 points and seven boards from Regan and an 11-point, four-rebound effort from Cottrell. The 72-65 victory over Army came at Northern Arizona’s La Quinta Inn and Suites Thanksgiving Tournament. Flood, who earned All-Tournament Team honors Women’s Swimming for her efforts during that weekend, scored 14 points and grabbed six rebounds. Making her homecoming to Arizona, Godinez was the team’s leading scorer in the win with 16 points. Overall, the Lady Jaspers finished 11-18 and 7-11 in MAAC regular season competition. For the third straight year of the Hill era, the Lady J’s advanced past the first round of the MAAC Tournament. This year, they advanced with a 33-point domination of Rider. The Manhattan women’s swimming team concluded a memorable season at the MAAC Swimming Championships by breaking a total of 12 school records on the way to a school record 159 points and an eighth-place finish, the best since the MAAC expanded to 10 member schools in 1997. Freshman Megan O’Keefe had an electric championship and took part in nine school records. Two of her more memorable races came in the 100 freestyle and the 100 butterfly. In the 100 butterfly, she became the first Lady Jasper to qualify for an individual championship final and broke her own school record in both the preliminaries and finals on the way to a sixth-place finish that earned her Manhattan’s first-ever MAAC medal. She also qualified for the championship final in the 100 freestyle and set a new Manhattan benchmark by more than two seconds while placing eighth overall. O’Keefe added a school record in the 200 butterfly, while freshman Susie Mothes (1650 freestyle) and sophomore Maura McGowan (50 freestyle and 100 freestyle) also set new Manhattan standards. Five relay records were also broken, with junior Sarah Szotak, junior Courtney Arduini, O’Keefe and McGowan teaming up to set new Lady Jasper marks in the 200 and 400 medley relays. Arduini, O’Keefe, Szotak and McGowan broke the school record in the 200 freestyle relay, junior Nicole Mason replaced Arduini on the record-breaking 400 freestyle relay squad, and the quartet of Arduini, Mason, Mothes and McGowan set a new Manhattan standard in the 800 freestyle relay. In addition, Arduini, senior Bethany Karbowski, senior Heather Kennedy, sophomore Michelle LaTouche, Mason, McGowan, senior Lauren Sullivan, Szotak and junior Rachele Testa were each named to the MAAC All-Academic Team. Manhattan finished the season with a 10-5 record, giving the Lady Jaspers at least 10 wins in each of the last four seasons and becoming the first Manhattan swim team, men’s or women’s, to accomplish that feat. Women’s Soccer The women’s soccer team concluded its season with six wins under first-year head coach Sean Driscoll, the most for a Lady Jasper team since 2002. The five nonconference wins by Manhattan were the most since the 1995 season and the most for the Lady J’s since the MAAC expanded to 10 teams for the 1997 season. In addition, several players received postseason honors. Senior Suzanne Graham and junior Katie Kuntz were each named to the All-MAAC Second Team, while freshman Brittany Duhamel was recognized as a MAAC All-Rookie Team pick. In addition, 12 Lady Jaspers were selected to the MAAC All-Academic Team: junior Christine Abrams, sophomore Nicole Conti, sophomore Meghan Dobson, senior Kiera Fox, sophomore Heather Herrmann, sophomore Courtney Hughes, sophomore Erin Jay, Kuntz, senior Brandy Luther, senior Cathy Mitchell, senior Jaclyn Pancotti and senior Jennifer Pychewicz. The team posted a 6-12-2 overall record, but the future looks bright, as the Lady Jaspers graduate just eight players from a roster of 30. Katie Kuntz ’07
Men’s Soccer The men’s soccer team, under the direction of first-year head coach Michael Swanwick, made great strides during the course of the season, though those improvements did not always show up on the scoreboard. The Jaspers posted a 1-15-3 overall record but put together a four-match unbeaten streak in the late stages of the season, as the mix of veterans and newcomers began to gel and put coach Swanwick’s game plan into action. The four-game unbeaten streak, the longest for the Jaspers since the 1999 season, saw Manhattan defeat Saint Peter’s by a 7-2 count, the most goals by the Jaspers since the 1994 season and the most at home since 1991. The streak also included a draw with Loyola, the second time in the past three years that Manhattan has earned a MAAC point with the conference’s premier soccer program. When all was said and done, sophomore Javier Escobedo received Second Team All-MAAC honors, while senior Joe Pumo and sophomore Dan Carr were named to the MAAC All-Academic Team. Volleyball After a transition year in 2004, Manhattan volleyball was back among the top teams in the conference in 2005. The Lady Jaspers’ bid to return to postseason play, however, ended in heartbreaking fashion on the final day of the regular season, as Manhattan fell in five games to eventual MAAC Champion Siena College. Despite the loss, head coach Ray Green’s squad finished the 2005 season at 17-16 overall and 5-4 in MAAC play, which is a nine and a half match improvement from last year’s overall tally. The core of the squad consisted of four seniors, middle hitter Maggie Pfeifer, outside hitter Megan O’Dorisio, libero Ashley Davis, and setter Lori Bambauer. During their tenure in Riverdale, the quartet did everything but fail to leave its mark on the program. After earning First Team All-MAAC honors as a sophomore and junior, Pfeifer captured the MAAC Offensive Player of the Year award for her efforts during her final campaign. During 2005, she led the MAAC in kills at 4.29 per game, while finishing third in the league in hitting percentage. She will graduate as one of Manhattan’s best offensive players ever, having amassed 1,556 kills. Cross Country Ashley Davis ’06 O’Dorisio was another key offensive force for the Lady J’s, as she was named to the 2005 All-MAAC Second Team. In addition to averaging 4.15 kills per game, she recorded doubledoubles (double-digit kills and digs in the same match) in 17 of the team’s 33 matches during 2005. She also joined Manhattan’s 1,000-kill club during a late-season win at Marist. Davis, who eclipsed the 1,100-dig mark on Senior Day at Draddy, totaled 466 digs in 2005, which is the second-best performance in Manhattan single season history. Bambauer, who transferred to Manhattan from Clark State in Ohio after her freshman year, became a regular among the MAAC’s assist leaders, dishing out 2,911 in her career. The season also saw some young players emerge into productive competitors. Sophomore Ashley Watson finished third on the team in digs with 346 and picked up MAAC Defensive Player of the Week honors back in mid-October. Freshmen Andrea Reiff and Alyssa Getzel made solid first impressions, too. Reiff recorded more than 130 kills and digs, while, after breaking into the lineup midway through the season, Getzel dished out 315 assists as a rookie. Both the Manhattan men’s and women’s cross country squads continued their traditional successes on the course and in the classroom. Both teams finished in the upper echelon of the conference at the MAAC Championships and produced a combined eight MAAC All-Academic selections. Senior Tyler Raymond was responsible for the most impressive individual performance of the season as he captured the IC4A Cross Country Championship. With a time of 25:24.6 in the 8K run, Raymond led Manhattan to a fifth-place finish out of 22 teams in the University Race. At the MAAC meet, Manhattan finished third out of 10 teams in the league. Raymond (9th overall, 25:24.1), junior Mike Foley (13th overall, 26:23.4), and sophomore Joe McElhoney (16th overall, 26:31.5) were the Jaspers’ top three runners on the day. Raymond was the first male finisher in the race who was not a member of the Iona College squad, which held a top five ranking in the nation. The women’s team ran to a fourth-place finish at the MAAC Championships with the five Lady Jasper scorers consisting of three seniors, Nicholle Davis, Marissa Olivieri and Caryn Capalbo, as well as two freshmen, Melissa Trauscht and Ellen Dobbin. Capalbo and Olivieri led the squad at the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships, too. Capalbo paced the Manhattan squad with a time of 23:42.9, while Olivieri was the Lady J’s second finisher at 23:50.2. Capalbo also surpassed high standards in the academic realm, as she joined Davis and senior Ginine Lucarello as the Lady Jaspers on the MAAC All-Academic squad. On the men’s side, Raymond, McElhoney, junior Kevin Agnese, junior Chris Breslin and sophomore Anthony Vernaci met the All-Academic requirements. Mike Foley ’07 manhattan.edu sports 29
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