•Hilton grad Megan Loomis was named SUNY Rookie of the Year and Second Team All-Conference in women’s volleyball. Three others also earned All-Conference honors – senior Andrea Coyle, graduate student Meaghan Mastro, and senior Kerri McHale. Loomis finished the year fifth in the conference with 3.12 kills per set and sixth with 3.6 points per set. Her tally of 187 kills on the year was third-best on the team. She becomes the program’s first SUNYAC Rookie of the Year since Mastro earned the title back in 2017. Coyle was selected First-Team All-Conference after leading the team and ranked third in the conference with 304 kills. Mastro was also named First-Team All-Conference – her third. The member of the SUNYAC All-Decade Team was second on the team with 260 total kills, which placed her top five in the SUNYAC. Mastro was also top ten in the conference with her team-leading total of 69 blocks. McHale earned Third-Team All-Conference after leading the conference with 705 assists. She now sits eighth in career assists in program history with 1,901.
•Hilton’s Emma Spelman became St. John Fisher’s third-ever Empire 8 Rookie of the Year as she accounted for a team-best seven assists and four goals for 15 total points in the 2021 campaign. Her assist total also tied for second-most in the conference, as her .412 per game average earned her sole possession of second place.
•Byron-Bergen’s Kelsey Fuller was named a NJCAA Division III Women’s Soccer All-American for the 2021-22 season as a First-Team All-American. The sophomore scored 19 goals and added 12 assists for a total of 50 points. Four of her 19 goals were game-winning goals.
•State University of New York Polytechnic Institute at Utica/Rome (SUNY Poly) junior Emma Draper was named to the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) All-Conference Second Team in women’s volleyball as well as the Sportsmanship Team. Draper recorded a team-high 209 kills with a team-best .217 hitting percentage. She also led the Wildcats with 44 total blocks.
•St. John Fisher sophomore goalkeeper and Spencerport grad Jadon Schlierf was named Second Team Empire 8 in men’s soccer as he and his defensive back line allowed just .88 goals per game within conference play.
•Brockport High product and Geneseo junior Nick Andrews was named SUNYAC co-Runner of the Year. He finished in third place at the SUNYAC championship with a time of 26:57.9, in fourth place at the Niagara Region championship, and went on to earn All-American honors finishing in 39th place at the NCAA championship meet.
•Geneseo junior midfielder Justin Arilotta was named First Team All-Region and First Team All-SUNYAC in men’s soccer after he helped the Knights earn a spot in the playoffs for the first time since the 2017 season with five goals, including three game-winners, and one assist on the season. Classmate Tyler Lewandowski (Greece Arcadia) was named Third Team All-SUNYAC after finishing second on the team with 12 points on five goals and two assists.
•Nazareth men’s soccer sophomore forward Cooper LaValley (Greece Arcadia) was named to the NCAA Division III Region III All-Star Second Team. He started all 18 games in 2021 and finished second on the team in scoring with 24 points on 10 goals and four assists. He also earned first-team All-Empire 8 honors for the second time.
•Byron-Bergen’s Makenzie Muoio was among four players from the Roberts Wesleyan women’s soccer team named to the East Coast Conference All-Conference team. Abigail Sindoni and Gabrielle Ciambella were selected to the second team, while Sydney Regan and Muoio received third-team honors. Sindoni was the team’s leading scorer in her first season with the Redhawks. The sophomore had 21 points on nine goals and three assists. Muoio has been a leader for the Roberts defense for four years. “Mo has been an integral part of our back line since her first day as a freshman,” head coach Sarah McClellan said. “Four years later, she has shown exceptional growth and competence in both her defensive organization skills and her ability to jumpstart our attack. She has brought both the vocal presence and the example to the table every day.” It is the most all-conference selections the team has had in one season since joining NCAA Division II.
•Three seniors on the Redhawks men’s soccer team were honored by the East Coast Conference. Forward Dylan Ruiz, who became the Redhawks’ career goal-scoring leader this fall, was named a first-team selection, midfielder Marc-Anthony Blackburn was a second-team selection, and defender Alex Perez Vega earned third-team honors. Ruiz scored 17 goals and added five assists this season to lead the ECC in both goals and points. He broke a 41-year-old school record in career goals with 50, breaking the mark previously held by Jaime Rivera between 1977-80.
•Fifteen members of the SUNY Brockport football team earned Empire 8 All-Conference recognition with nine named to the first team in junior running back Jala Coad, senior offensive guard Luke Lodini, junior offensive tackle Scott Ochsner, senior receiver Imhotep Cromer, senior defensive end Josh Greenwood, junior defensive lineman Jordan Harris, junior linebacker Ben Damiani, senior linebacker Lawrence Jenkins and senior safety Alaan Montgomery. Three Golden Eagles were named to the All-Conference Second Team in sophomore offensive lineman Nicholas Kalke (Greece Arcadia), junior safety Ben Marshall, and freshman kicker Nate Wigent, while sophomore tight end/receiver James Altenburger and freshman punter Dan Giangrasso earned third-team recognition. Senior linebacker Andrew Covais was named Brockport’s representative on the Sportsman of the Year team.
Coad finished ranked 12th nationally with 102 points scored and finished the regular season ranked ninth nationally in rushing yards (career-high 1,198). He also led the conference in rushing TD’s (15). Kalke, a sophomore offensive lineman, is one of three all-conference offensive linemen this season for the Golden Eagles after helping Brockport’s offense finish the regular season ranked second in the E8 with an average of 323.7 total yards per game.
•SUNY Brockport graduate student Ethan Carey placed 100th out of 294 racers in his first appearance at the NCAA Championship. His final time of 24:50.3 is the third-fastest 8K in program history, and he is now one of just three runners in program history to break 25 minutes in the 8K.
•Senior Matthew Stefaniw of the SUNY Brockport men’s soccer team was named United Soccer Coaches 2021 NCAA Division III All-Region, to the Region III Second Team, and was also a SUNYAC All-Conference First Team selection after he recorded 12 goals and two assists for a total of 26 points. Stefaniw is tied for seventh on the program’s all-time goals scored list with 32, and he also ranks seventh all-time at Brockport with 71 career points in 57 games over the course of three seasons.
•SUNY Brockport field hockey graduate student Katie Ziemba became the first Golden Eagle since 2014 to be named First Team All-Conference. She was also named to the 2021 National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) All-Region III Second Team, becoming the first Golden Eagle to earn All-Region honors since All-American Amanda Pickard was recognized back in 2007 and 2008. Senior Katelynn Mello was a Second Team selection. Ziemba finished the season with a total of 14 goals, five assists, and 33 points, putting her second all-time in career goals with 30 and third in career points with 76. Mello earned her second conference honor after being named as a freshman.
