Senior football and track standout, Sean
Washington, was awarded the William B. Jaffe Medal. The award is
presented to the senior male athlete voted by the athletic department to be the
outstanding athlete of the year, while taking into account the character and
motivation of the individual in addition to athletic excellence.
Washington, who missed his freshman year after
breaking his leg during the football preseason, will find out next week if he
has qualified for the NCAA outdoor meet.
He was a three-year standout as a return specialist and tailback for the
football team and has been a regular qualifier for the NCAA National
Championship Meet in both the 55 meter and 100 meter dash for both the indoor
and outdoor seasons throughout his outstanding career. Already an All-American
in track and holder of several of Union's sprint records, Washington is the reigning New York
State and Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association champion in
his events. He was named the
conference's “Outstanding Track Performer” following the indoor season.
As a member of the football team, Washington was an All-Conference special teams
member as a return specialist.
A managerial economics major, Washington was the recipient of the 2002 Sophomore Athletic Award as Union's
“Outstanding Sophomore Male Athlete of the Year,” and last season captured
the William A. Pike Memorial Trophy.
The trophy is presented to a junior
male athlete for attitude, ability, participation, and achievement in
intercollegiate sports.
A native of Dale City, Virginia, and a graduate of Saint Stephens,
Washington will find out next week if he has qualified for the upcoming
NCAA Outdoor championships. He was presented the 2004 Director's Award as
the outstanding senior athlete at the annual senior appreciation dinner.
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:
The Dutchwomen played their first-ever NCAA game in Memorial Field House on March 3.
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:
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)
Sr. Cliff Eisenhut
So. Erika Eisenhut
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)
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
Mary Ellen BurtPete Brown
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
ReUnion 2004 May 20-23 (Complete events listings on
programs and at www.union.edu/ReUnion.)
Friday, May 21 8 a.m.
– Alumni golf outing at the Edison Club Golf
Course, Rexford. 5-7 p.m.
– Reamer Campus Center Patio – Choral ReUnion BBQ. 5:30 p.m. – Nott Memorial – 50th
ReUnion Class medallion ceremony and induction into the Garnet Guard.
Evening – Various class dinners and receptions. For specifics, visit http://www.union.edu/Reunion
Saturday, May 22 10:30 a.m.
– Memorial Chapel – 93rd
annual Alumni Parade stepping off on Alexander Lane and concluding at the chapel. 11 a.m.
– Memorial Chapel – Alumni convocation. The senior class is
welcomed into the alumni body by the Class '54; presentation of Alumni Gold Medals and Faculty Meritorious
Service Award; and parade of trophies. Concluded by a chimes concert featuring David Stone '06. Noon – Alexander Field – Family picnic as
part of ReUnion events, featuring live music of the
Riverboat Dixieland Jazz Band. 1:30 p.m. – Hale House – Entertainment Today: Live from Union College –presentations by alum
with careers in the arts and entertainment fields about their work and career
paths. 2
p.m. – Grant Hall – Admissions open house and
discussion by Dan Lundquist, vice president for
admissions, on the state of selective college admissions. 3 p.m. – Memorial Chapel –
Choral ReUnion concert featuring six decades of alumni vocalists under the
direction of Prof. Emeritus Hugh A. Wilson and Prof. Victor Klimash. 7 p.m. – Library Plaza – Gala under the tent featuring the music
of the Swing Docs. 8 p.m. – Yulman Theater – Play, Six Degrees of Separation, directed by Joann Yarrow. For tickets and information, call the
box office at 388-6545. 10 p.m. — Library Field — ReUnion Fireworks display, donated by Steve Ente ‘75. 10:30, 10:50,
& 11:10 p.m. – F.W. Olin Center – Observatory open
house with 20-minute tours.
Reserve free tickets at the Welcome Center. 10:30 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center, Chet's Patio – The Union College Blues
Brothers Band featuring alum from the 1980s.
Sunday, May 23 10 a.m.
– Boat House – Friends
of Union Rowing ReUnion row and new shell christening. Brunch at 11:30 a.m. 2 p.m. – Yulman Theater – Final performance, Six Degrees of Separation. Call the box
office for tickets and information 388-6545.
Monday, May 24 7 p.m.
– Old Chapel – Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic
magazine, and R. Douglas Geivett, professor of
philosophy in the Talbot School of Theology at Biola
University, La Mirada, Calif., will debate “Does God Exist?” Presented by
students of Psychology 135: The Psychology of Religion, and the Psychology
Department. 8 & 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: Miracle.
Wednesday, May 26 8 to 10 p.m. – South College, Green Living Room –
LACS Film Series continues with City of
God (Brazil, Fernando Meirelles, Katia Lund, 2003) – a fact-based depiction
of rival gangs vying for control of the drug trade in a Brazilian ghetto.
Thursday, May 27 4 – 7 p.m. – Old Chapel – Bob Dylan
tribute. 6:30 p.m. – Everest Lounge – Philosophy Talks at Union
with guest speaker Jaegwon Kim of Brown University presenting “Agency and Self-Knowledge.”
Frank Wicks, associate professor of mechanical
engineering, and Richard Wilk, professor
of mechanical engineering, have been awarded a $10,000 research grant from the
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, a subsidiary of National Grid. Their research
will identify and evaluate more efficient methods of interfacing electricity from
wind turbines, solar panels and fuel cells with the electric power system.
