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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association released its All-Academic Cross Country Team lists last week. Two Fredonia men were included. Senior Collin Mulcahy and sophomore Ethan Francis were included for achieving a grade-point average of 3.30 or higher and finishing among the top 25 percent in their region.
A pair of Fredonia sophomores have been named to the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Team for cross country. The entire Blue Devils team was also cited. Brenna Donovan and Hannah Kurbs finished 29th and 55th, respectively, in a field of 304 women at the NCAA Division III Atlantic Regional last Nov. 12 at Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J.
Fredonia added to its list of SUNYAC diving champions with four more titles last month. The springboard sweeps by seniors Meghan Bartlett and Arron Carlson marked the third time in the last six years Blue Devil divers have won all four SUNYAC titles. It also set the stage for NCAA Regional performances that earned both return trips to the national meet this week in Shenendoah, Texas.
Fredonia junior Brittany Feldman (Jamestown) was named 2017 Track Athlete of the Meet after winning two events Saturday at the SUNYAC Outdoor Track & Field outdoor championships at SUNY Cortland. Feldman was first in the 200 meters and the 400 meters.
Fredonia senior women's basketball player Alexis Cheatham (Lockport/Lockport) earned a spot on the D3hoops.com Team of the Week after averaging 24.7 points for the week as the Devils went 2-1. She nailed 19 three pointers, including 10 in a 109-61 victory over Allegheny. The 109 points by the team were the most in school history.
The Fredonia women's basketball team defeated Oneonta, 57-49, Feb, 4 and clinched a playoff berth in the SUNYAC tournament. Senior Alexis Cheatham (Lockport/Lockport) scored a game-high 21 points and added four assists. Jenna Einink (Westfield/Chautauqua Lake), Jacque Law (Machais/Pioneer), Alisha Szumigala (Forestville/Forestville), and Khee Nance (Dunkirk/Dunkirk) all finished with six points apiece. Szumigala snatched nine rebounds.
Graham Jones (Tonawanda/Kenmore East) won three individual events as the men's swimming and diving team competed at Cortland on Feb. 4. Jones won the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:28.90), the 100-yard freestyle (50.55), and the 500-yard freestyle (5:06.07).
Fredonia had three individual winners Feb. 4 at the Mount Union College Wuske Invitational track and field meet. Sarah Couperus (Marion, N.Y.), a junior, won the high jump by clearing 1.62 meters (5 feet, 3.75 inches), just short of her indoor personal-best. Brittany Feldman (Jamestown), also a junior, hit the tape in the 400 meters in 58.34 seconds, first among 43 women entered in 10 heats. There were 21 women in the 5,000 meters, eight from Fredonia, with Blue Devil sophomore Hannah Kurbs (Lockport) winning with the time of 18:41.56, about two seconds off her personal best, set outdoors.
Fredonia's Justyn Haines (Albion) cleared a personal-best 4.60 meters to win the men's pole vault at the Feb. 4 Mount Union College Wuske Invitational Track & Field meet. Haines, a junior, passed until the bar reached 4.30 meters. He made the height, then cleared 4.45 meters, and then 4.60 (15 feet, 1 inch), the 28th best vault so far this winter in NCAA Division III.
Meghan Bartlett (Johnstown, N.Y./Johnstown) and Sam Kowalewski (Cowlesville/Attica) combined to sweep both diving events at Cortland on Feb. 4. Kowalewski (272.25) won the 3-meter board, edging Bartlett by 2.15 points. Off the 1-meter board, Bartlett finished with a 296.95 to Kowalewski's runner-up score of 257.20.