乱伦强奸

In Review

乱伦强奸 students had a standout year鈥攐n the field and in academia.

In the 2014鈥�15 school year, six 乱伦强奸 students earned Academic All-America honors, a recognition administered by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Lauren Bailey 鈥�15 of the women鈥檚 swimming and diving team, Emily Widra 鈥�15 of the women鈥檚 rowing team, and Ethan Pacheck 鈥�15, of the men鈥檚 cross country and track and field teams were honored this spring. They joined three honorees from the fall seasons: Alex Swanger 鈥�15 and Griffin Drake 鈥�15 of men鈥檚 soccer, and Matthew Mender 鈥�16, a defensive tackle on the football team.

Swanger and Drake were key members of a soccer team that reached the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs and that was known for its defense, posting eight shutouts and holding four other teams to one goal.

Swanger, a financial economics major from Penfield, New York, repeated as an Academic All-American, earning the same accolade in 2014. He worked as a research assistant in a campus Medical Center group, Surgical Health Outcomes & Research Enterprise. On the soccer pitch, Swanger earned all鈥揢AA honors for the fourth straight season.

Drake, a defender from Indianapolis, graduated with degrees in political science and philosophy. A tutor for the political science class Business in Politics and a TA for Argument in Political Science, he was also a broadcaster on the campus Internet radio station, WRUR鈥檚 鈥淭he Sting.鈥� When 乱伦强奸 traveled to Germany in May 2015, he blogged for the team on the athletics department site.

Mender, from Glens Falls, New York, earned all鈥揕iberty League honors in football and ranked among the league鈥檚 tackle leaders. A biomedical engineering major, he has worked in an auditory neuroscience lab. He was the only football player from a New York State Division III college named to the Academic All-America team this year.

Bailey and Widra were named to CoSIDA鈥檚 at-large team, a designation that encompasses sports that do not have their own specific team, including swimming, lacrosse, field hockey, ice hockey, fencing, tennis, golf, and others.

In the pool, Bailey, a chemical engineering major from Ossining, New York, was named the Liberty League Women鈥檚 Swimmer of the Year for three straight years. In her last two seasons, she earned All-America honors in six events at the NCAA championships鈥攆our as a junior, two as a senior.

Widra, from Washington, D.C., became the first women鈥檚 rower to earn Academic All-America honors from CoSIDA. She graduated with a triple major鈥擡nglish literature, anthropology, and psychology. As a junior, she was named to the All-America team by the College Rowing Coaches Association. She was a member of the Undergraduate English Council, serving as its secretary. She was also a teaching assistant for anthropology.

Pacheck鈥檚 selection followed a family tradition. His brother, Adam 鈥�14, was named last year. Ethan, a chemical engineering major from Baldwinsvile, New York, ran cross country, indoor track, and outdoor track over his career, earning a total of nine varsity letters.

This past winter, he ran on the distance medley relay team that broke the school record, posting one of Division III鈥檚 top 25 times. He earned six medals in New York state competition and three more at the ECAC championships. A member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, and a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, he was a teaching assistant for five classes鈥攐ne in music, four in chemistry.

All five seniors (Swanger, Drake, Bailey, Widra, Pacheck) were elected to Phi Beta Kappa and four (Bailey, Drake, Swanger, Widra) were named Garnish Scholar-Athletes last fall. Since the first selection in 1976, a total of 92 乱伦强奸 students have earned Academic All-America honors. Thirty-seven have come in the last 10 years.

In 2014鈥�15, Division III schools nominated 5,061 athletes to be Academic All-Americans; 466 were selected.

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Dennis O鈥橠onnell is director of athletic communications for the Department of Athletics and Recreation.锘匡豢