The
2003-04 season proved to be another outstanding effort
by the women and men student-athletes at Union, both on the field of
play and in the class rooms.
Academically, Union was represented on various All-Academic
teams by 82 individuals. Every year at
the season-ending banquet, Union College President Roger Hull announces the team with
the highest cumulative grade point average.
This year's men's winner was the cross country team (which had a 3.41) while the volleyball and women's cross country team tied
with a cumulative average of 3.34.
Athletically,
Union had four players named as Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association
“Players of the Year,” two coaches named “Coach of the Year” by their peers, 23
All-Conference First-Team, 17 Second-Team and two Honorable Mention
All-Conference selections. And, of
course, each team selected its “Most Valuable Player” Awards.
Team
success in 2003-04 included:
NCAA qualifiers–women's soccer (fifth-straight year),
women's basketball (first time in 29-year history of program),
softball (second-straight year and second time in 29-year
history of program), men and women's swim as well as men's track had Union
student-athletes qualify for NCAA championship meets.
Other
teams in tournaments–men's basketball was the No. 1 seed in ECAC tournament,
women's lacrosse was the No. 2 seed in ECAC tournament, men's Ice Hockey was the No. 6 seed in
ECAC tournament, men AND women's crew qualified for postseason (ECAC) for the
first time ever, and baseball qualified for the UCAA tournament for the first
time.
UCAA
championships went to-women's soccer (6-1), women's basketball (13-1) and
softball (7-1).
The
following is a breakdown of individual accomplishments during the recently
concluded season:
ALL-AMERICAN
AWARD WINNERS
Football-Sr.
Cliff Eisenhut, Second-Team (First-Team All-Region)
Soccer-(women)-Jr. Brittany Cressman Second-Team, (First-Team All-Region),
Sr.
Stephanie Mole' Third-Team (First-Team All-Region), So. Erika Eisenhut
(Second-Team All-Region)
New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association (NYSWCAA)
Forwards–Jr. Brittany Cressman & So. Erika Eisenhut
Midfield–Sr. Stephanie Molé
Backs–Sr. Lindsay Kroell
Softball-Abby Arceneaux and Julie Gawronski (Second-Team All-Region), Colleen White
(Third-Team All-Region)
Swimming-So. DJ Hogenkamp,
National Honorable Mention
*further winners will be added as they are
announced
UCAA
ACADEMIC ALL-CONFERENCE–69 (3.2 cumulative grade point average…freshmen not
eligible)
Senior football and baseball standout Cliff Eisenhut and his sophomore sister Erika, who plays soccer, basketball and softball, both qualified for the UCAA All-Academic team and were both selected as team Most Valuable Players (Cliff in football and Eirka in basketball). In the six seasons that Erika has played in thus far, five of her teams have qualified for the NCAA tournament, including all three this year.
FALL
Cross Country-(women)–Sr. Katie Beck
(English & visual arts), Sr. Lisa Capomaccio
(Spanish), So. Sarah Heitner (Economics), So. Carin Jenkins (psychology), Sr. Rebecca Seaman (biology),
Jr. Alexandra Waibel (English)
Cross Country-(men)–So. Chris
Bory (psychology), So. Greg
McClung (Latin American studies), So. Andrew Schaeffer (history)
Field Hockey—So.
Meghan Collery (undeclared), Jr.
Lauren Cuzzo (Sociology), So. Kristian Gehring (chemistry), Sr.
Theresa Rourke (anthropology & biology)
Football–Jr. Joe Andriano
(elec. Engineering), So. Mike Beatty (engineering),
Sr. Cliff Eisenhut (economics), Jr. Steve Layton
(economics), Sr. Dan Mehleisen (economics), So. Mike Pieciak
(political science), So. Jerome
Schulman (economics), So. Rich Uluski
(biology & chemistry), So. Derrick Wayman
(chemistry), Sr. Evan White (computer science)
Women's Soccer-Jr. Brianna Bailey
(psychology), So. Eirka Eisenhut (psychology), So. Julie Gawronski (psychology), Sr. Stephanie
Mole' (economics), So. Sara Sparks (chemistry), So.
Amanda Stella (biology)
Men's Soccer-So. Matt Acciani (political science), Jr. Chris Ercoli
(engineering), So. Ryan McAleese
(economics), So. Justin Merolla (undeclared), So.
Mark Susko (undeclared)
Women's Tennis–So Amanda Brody (undeclared)
Volleyball–So. Charelle
Carter (biology), Jr. Katie Chylinski (electrical
engineering), Jr. Sue Gestwick (mathematics), Sr. Kirin Liquori (Spanish &
German studies), Sr. Julie Moran (psychology & visual arts), Sr. Sarah
Pontius (economics), So. Nicole Sabbatino
(mathematics & physics)
WINTER
Basketball-(men)-Jr. Devon Bruce (economics), David Packard
(mathematics)
Basketball-(women)-Sr. Kelly Baker
(managerial economics), So. Erika Eisenhut
(psychology), Jr. Eileen Lowry (undeclared), Jr. Melissa Marra
(economics)
*Hockey-(men)-Sr. Brent
Booth (managerial economics), Jr. Chris DeStefano
(undeclared), Jr. Max Seel (English & pre-med),
So. Tim Roth (mech. engineering)
*Hockey-(women)-Jr. Hannah
Baldwin (neurobiology), So. Samantha Glover (biology), Jr.
Jamie Laubisch (Spanish & biology, 8-year medical program), Jr. Courtney Riepenhoff (psychology), So. Dana Smullyan (undeclared)
Swim-(men)-Sr. Adam Bekiaris
(psychology)
Track-(men)-So. Matt Acciani (political science), So. Chris
Bory (psychology), So. Andrew Schaeffer
(history)
Track-(women)-So. Courtney Albert (psychology), Lisa Capomaccio
(Spanish), Jr. Kara Chylinski (elec. engineering),
Jr. Carolyn Gabriel (undeclared), So. Marnie
Smith (undeclared)
*ECAC All-Academic
SPRING
(will be updated in mid-June)
UPSTATE
COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ALL-CONFERENCE MEMBERS
PLAYER
OF THE YEAR (selections)
Sophomore
Abby Arceneaux, softball
Senior
Cliff Eisenhut, football (special teams
player of the year)
Senior
Lauren Stellato, tennis
Senior
Sean Washington, indoor track
COACH
OF THE YEAR (selections)
Mary
Ellen Burt (women's basketball)
Pete
Brown (softball)
It was the second consecutive year that each
of them has been chosen.
FIRST
TEAM (24)
Baseball-Adam
Chadwick
Basketball-(men)-John
Cagianello
Basketball-(women)-Erika
Eisenhut
Football-Jon
Woods, Cliff Eisenhut, Sean Washington, Dan Mehleisen
Lacrosse-(women)-Molly
Flanagan, Kathy Dolezal, Corinne Hennessy
Soccer-(women)-Erika
Eisenhut, Brittany Cressman,
Stephanie Mole', Lindsay Kroell
Softball-Abby
Arceneaux (pitcher), Colleen White, Julie Gawronski
Tennis-(women)-Singles:
Lauren Stellato Doubles: Lauren Stellato-Jennie Werts
Track-(men,
indoor)-Sean Washington
Volleyball-Sue
Gestwick, Jess Meliosky, Julie Moran
SECOND
TEAM (17)
Baseball-Jim
Griglun, Dan Mehleisen
Basketball-(women)-Katlyn Cunningham, Melissa Marra
Football-Alex Smith, Mike Flanagan
Lacrosse
(women)-Julia Davis, Tanya Davis, Liz Flanagan
Soccer-(men)-Mike
Carey
Soccer-(women)-Marissa
VanWoeart, Brianna Bailey, Julie Gawronski
Softball-Abby
Arceneaux (first base), Beth Carcone,
Alicia Gifford, Jackie Coffey
HONORABLE
MENTION (2)
Basketball-(men)-Brian
Scordato, Devon Bruce
TEAM
MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
FALL
Cross
Country (men)-Fr. Greg Holmes and Fr. Jay Martin
Cross
Country (women)-Sr. Lisa Capomaccio
Field
Hockey-Sr. Lauren Updegrove
and Fr. Emily French
Football-Sr.
Cliff Eisenhut
Soccer
(men)-Jr. Kevin O'Connor
Soccer
(women)-Sr. Stephanie Mole'
Volleyball-Julie
Moran and Sara Pontius
Tennis
(women)-Sr. Lauren Stellato
WINTER
Basketball (men)-So. John Cagianello
Basketball
(women)-So. Erika Eisenhut
Hockey
(men)-Jr. Jordan Webb and So. Kris Mayotte
Hockey (women)-Fr. Meghan O'Connor
Swimming
(men)-D.J. Hogenkamp
Swimming
(women)-Fr. Sydnie Wells
Indoor
Track (men)-Sr. Sean Washington
Indoor
Track (women)-Sr. Kaity Elias
SPRING
Baseball-Jr.
Adam Chadwick
Crew
(men)-Sr. Jon Menz
Crew
(women)-Sr. Lindsey Gish
Lacrosse
(men)-Jr. Peter Gross
Lacrosse
(women)-Sr. Corinne Hennessy
Softball-So. Abby Arceneaux
Tennis
(men)-Sr. Mitch Linder
Outdoor
Track (men)-Sr. Sean Washington
Outdoor
Track (women)-Sr. Kaity Elias