•Spencerport’s Erin Coykendall was one of five Northwestern University women’s lacrosse players to earn First Team All-Big Ten honors and one of two named unanimous selections. She led the conference with 40 assists this season, 2.5 per game, and ranked seventh with 42 goals. The senior was also named a Terwaaraton Award Finalist, which is the pre-eminent lacrosse award, annually honoring the top male and female college lacrosse player in the United States and an IWLCA All-Region First Team selection. She helped lead the Wildcats to the national championship – the eighth in program history.
Coykendall leads the Big Ten with 2.39 assists per game, notching 43 helpers over the course of 18 games, the eighth-most in a single-season in program history. Coykendall’s 43 assists sits one shy of her 44 assists in 2021 for seventh in school history.
•Hilton’s Shawn Doran of Mercyhurst University was named Northern Player of the Year and an All-Region North Faceoff First Team selection in men’s lacrosse. He appeared in all 19 games on the season and finished with the team lead in ground balls with 187 while adding career-highs in goals (13), assists (9), and caused turnovers (6).
•Byron-Bergen grad Veronica Duell earned All Region honors for the 2023 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field season in the long-jump. She was first in the region and third in the nation with a leap of 5.97m, which she hit in the Cardinals Classic.
•RIT junior outfielder John Bagley (Churchville-Chili) was named Second Team Liberty League in baseball after he led the team in batting average (.408), on-base-percentage (.459) and on-base-plus-slugging (.967). He also finished second in hits (53), RBI (31) and slugging percentage (.508), while tying for second with 32 runs scored.
•Churchville-Chili’s Alaina Reina picked up Second Team All-SUNYAC honors in women’s lacrosse after the Geneseo freshman scored four goals in the championship game to help the Knights win their first program championship. She led the team with 55 goals and was second with 70 points.
•SUNY Brockport outfielder Zach Eldred was named the Co-Bob Wallace Player of the Year to go along with the team’s four First Team and three Second Team All-SUNYAC selections as the team won the SUNYAC championship and advanced to the NCAA playoffs for the fourth time in program history.
Eldred hit .402 with 68 hits, a 1.158 OPS, 44 RBIs, 48 runs scored, six home runs, 18 doubles, and .675 slugging percentage. Second baseman James Houlahan and pitchers Matthew Colucci and Anthony Lapine were also named First Team All-Conference. Houlahan batted .310 with a .739 OPS, 33 runs scored, and 22 RBIs. Colucci racked up a team-high 68 strikeouts on his way to a 5-3 record. Lapine led the Golden Eagles with three saves and recorded a 3.37 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, a 1-1 win/loss record, and 25 strikeouts in 14 appearances.
Pitcher Adam Douglas, shortstop Justin Pangburn and outfielder Nicholas Pastore were all Second Team All-Conference selections. Douglas went 5-4 on the mound in 13 appearances and maintained a 2.32 ERA with 50 strikeouts. Pangburn hit .307 with a .785 OPS, .418 OBP, 46 hits, 36 runs scored and 19 RBIs. Pastore batted .358 with 63 hits, 34 RBIs, 14 doubles, five triples, and four home runs.
•Roberts Wesleyan junior Jordon Deats and graduate student Reid Jackowski were both named First Team All-East Coast Conference in men’s lacrosse. Deats, a repeat First Team selection, scored 30 goals, including three game-winners, and contributed 13 assists in 14 games this spring. Jackowski led the conference in assists for the second straight season with a school-record 39 and finished his career with 90 goals and 97 assists and ranks second all-time at Roberts with 187 points.
•Four men and five women from the Roberts Wesleyan University track and field team earned USTFCCCA All-Region honors for NCAA DII East Region: Ryan Karker – 800 meters (1:51.79) and 1,500 meters (3:51.13); Blake Kasper – 5,000 meters (14:48.76) and 10,000 meters (30:56.44); Lee Sortore – 1,500 meters (3:54.10) and Steeplechase (9:31.20); Owen White – 5,000 meters (14:35.00); Acacia Barber – 1,500 meters (4:39.69) and 5,000 meters (17:34.66); Rachel Horner-Richardson – 5,000 meters (17:59.26); Hailee Lowe – 100-meter hurdles (14.56); Kylee Odell – 800 meters (2:15.16) and 1,500 meters (4:30.98); Jennifer Zambuto – 10,000 meters (39:20.29).
•Alexis Grant and Madelyn Robinson of the Roberts Wesleyan women’s lacrosse team earned Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division II All-East Region Second Team honors and were First Team All-East Coast Conference honorees. Fifth-year senior Grant was tied on the team for most points this season with 65 on 48 goals and 17 assists. Robinson headed up the defensive unit for the Redhawks causing 42 turnovers and getting 36 ground balls.
•Three members of the Roberts Wesleyan University women’s bowling team made the All-East Coast Conference list. Junior Paige Barkley was named to the All-Conference second team while junior Mykenzie Burnett and freshman Amelia Ponto were named to the All-Conference third team.
•SUNY Brockport men’s lacrosse had three players receive Second Team All-SUNYAC honors in Nate Askin, Anthony McGee, and Cameron Kuzniar. Askin scored a team-leading 22 goals with 29 points and registered four hat tricks. McGee was the anchor of the Golden Eagles defense as the senior led Brockport with 47 ground balls and he caused a team-high 21 turnovers. Kuzniar now owns the Brockport record for single season saves with 209, breaking John Contratto’s mark of 186 saves. Kuzniar led the SUNYAC in total saves and was third in minutes played.
•14 Golden Eagles were awarded All-Region in Track & Field across 18 different events: Paul Suflita – 5000M, 10,000M and Steeplechase; Mia Montgomery – Long Jump and Triple Jump; Sarah Crockett – Shot Put and Discus; Alex Rood – Shot Put; Veronica Dailey – Steeplechase; Kerry Flower – 10,000M; Dustin Meyer – Pole Vault; Rebecca Heuler – Javelin Throw; Thomas Kressly – 1500M; Jonathan Zavala – 1500M; Sarah Killip – High Jump; Michaela Levesque – High Jump; Emma Kinnicutt – Hammer Throw; Matthew Jackson – Hammer Throw.
•Cassidy Burnash and Courtney Cunningham were named First Team All-SUNYAC while Alayna Foos and Taylor Ford earned Second Team honors in women’s lacrosse at SUNY Brockport. Burnash led the Golden Eagles with 47 goals and 32 assists. Her 79 total points stood third overall in the SUNYAC. Cunningham scored 35 goals and led the team in ground balls (48), caused turnovers (21) and draw controls (73). Foos’s 39 goals and 50 points were good for second on the squad and ranked fourth in conference play in shots on goal (44), and fifth best from the free position (7-15). Ford anchored the defense and was second in caused turnovers (16) and draw controls (73).
