In 2006, Wittenberg University's Student Athlete Advisory
Committee (SAAC) initiated a program to recognize the
accomplishments of their peers. SAAC members vote during their
regularly scheduled meeting to select one male and one female
student-athlete who has turned in a noteworthy performance that
should be celebrated.
Laura Rose
Softball (5/7/13): Junior outfielder Laura Rose
was a force at the plate and in the field for the Wittenberg
softball team for a third consecutive season. She finished second
on the team in batting average at .321 while starting all 36 games
for the Tigers, who tied for second place in the North Coast
Athletic Conference (NCAC) regular season standings and finished as
runners-up in the NCAC Tournament. Rose was also second on the team
in home runs with three and third on the team in runs batted in,
and she committed just one error while starting 34 games in center
field. It was on the base paths where Rose made her most
significant contributions, however, as she topped the team and
league in stolen bases with 32 in 33 attempts. She broke the school
and league records for steals in a season, and she will enter her
senior year just two steals shy of the NCAC career record and one
short of Wittenberg's career record. |
Zach Finke
Baseball (5/7/13): Senior pitcher Zach Finke
stepped into the role of No. 1 starter for the Wittenberg baseball
team and flourished in 2013. In leading the Tigers to records of
23-16 overall and 9-10 in the North Coast Athletic Conference
(NCAC), Finke compiled a 5-3 record in nine appearances, including
eight starting assignments. He tossed five complete games and three
shutouts, including the first no-hitter by a Wittenberg pitcher
since 1998 and just the sixth on record. Finke's 2.56 earned run
average is tops on the team and ranks third in the NCAC as he
allowed 50 hits and 15 earned runs in 52 innings. He was twice
named NCAC Pitcher of the Week and to an honorable mention list for
a national Pitcher of the Week award. |
Logan Warye
Women's Lacrosse (5/7/13): Sophomore attacker
Logan Warye turned in a tremendous 2013 season for the Wittenberg
women's lacrosse team, helping the Tigers to their second
consecutive undefeated North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC)
season. Wittenberg finished 8-0 in the NCAC regular season and 12-4
overall as Warye poured in a school-record-tying 57 goals to go
along with 15 assists, which totaled 72 points, the third-best mark
in school history. While leading the Tigers in both categories,
Warye ranked third in the NCAC and among the top 90 nationally in
goals per game. |
Hunter Bastian
Men's Lacrosse (5/7/13): Junior defender Hunter
Bastian played a key role on defense for the Wittenberg men's
lacrosse team, helping the Tigers to records of 8-5 overall and 3-4
in the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC). He started 11 games
before suffering an injury in the second-to-last game of the
season, contributing 31 ground balls and 11 caused turnovers, both
tops among defensemen on the team. |
Ashlee Wright
Softball (4/15/13): Sophomore catcher Ashlee
Wright has been a fixture in the middle of the Wittenberg softball
team’s line-up in 2013, and her play is one of the big
reasons the Tigers have posted a 14-7 overall record (thru April
14). Wright has started all 21 games, batting .344 to rank third on
the team, while her 22 base hits ranks second. She has four
doubles, one homer and seven runs batted in while also playing
outstanding defense behind the plate. Wright has committed just two
errors and has a .979 fielding percentage, which ranks third on the
team amongst players with at least 16 starting assignments. |
Ian Streicker
Men's Tennis (4/15/13): Sophomore Ian Streicker is
performing well atop the Wittenberg men’s tennis team’s
line-up for a second straight year. A second-team All-North Coast
Athletic Conference (NCAC) honoree a year ago, Streicker has posted
a 12-9 overall record during the 2012-13 season. He is 6-6 at the
No. 1 singles position as the Tigers have taken on some of the top
teams in the nation. Playing with four different partners,
Streicker has posted an 11-5 record in doubles. As a team,
Wittenberg men’s tennis stands 13-5 overall and 1-1 in the
NCAC West Division (thru April 14). |
Erin Guiliano
Women's Lacrosse (4/15/13): Senior Erin Guiliano
has been a key leader for the Wittenberg women’s lacrosse
team again in 2013, once again stuffing the statistics sheet game
in and game out. A three-time All-North Coast Athletic Conference
(NCAC) selection, Guiliano stands fourth on the team in goals with
19 and fifth in total points with 24 as the Tigers have jumped out
to records of 9-3 overall and 5-0 in the NCAC (thru April 14). A
team captain in 2013, Guiliano also ranks among the best on the
team in seven caused turnovers and five assists. |
Tyler Hutchinson
Baseball (4/15/13): Junior Tyler Hutchinson has
made quite an impact on the Tiger baseball team in his first season
in the Red & White, checking in with a .394 batting average
while starting all 24 games (thru April 14). Hutchinson ranks among
the team and North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) leaders in a
variety of offensive categories, including on-base percentage
(.522), slugging percentage (.676), home runs (3), runs batted in
(21), total bases (48) and hits (28). Hutchinson is one of the
primary reasons for Wittenberg’s 14-10 start to the 2013
campaign, as well as the team’s .302 team batting
average. |
Zach Finke
Baseball (3/18/13): Senior pitcher Zach Finke got
his 2013 season off to a tremendous start, tossing a pair of
complete-game shutouts during the Tigers’ Spring Break trip
to Florida. Finke allowed just three hits in a 1-0 win over WPI and
then scattered a mere four hits in a 2-0 win over Union. He did not
allow a walk in either game as the team’s pitching staff
compiled a sparkling 2.95 earned run average as the Tigers posted a
6-1 record. Finke was honored by the North Coast Athletic
Conference with Pitcher of the Week honors and by the National
College Baseball Writers Association with Honorable Mention Pitcher
of the Week honors. |
Francine Murzynski
Women's Lacrosse (3/18/13): Junior midfielder
Francine Murzynski has picked up right where she left off in 2012,
leading the Wittenberg women’s lacrosse team in almost every
statistical category through the first three games of a promising
2013 season. Murzynski has scored nine goals and dished out four
assists for a total of 13 points, and she also leads the squad in
ground balls with 13 and draw controls with 12. A 2012 first-team
All-North Coast Athletic Conference and second-team All-West Region
honoree, Murzynski has played a key role in the Tigers’ 2-1
start to the 2013 season, heading into a challenging road trip that
features games at Stevenson on March 23 and Washington &
Jefferson on March 24. |
Jordan Shoger
Men's Lacrosse (3/18/13): Junior Jordan Shoger has
played a key role in the Wittenberg men’s lacrosse
team’s 4-1 start to the 2013 campaign. Through March 18,
Shoger ranks third on the team in scoring with 10 goals and 11
total points after a breakout performance in which he had a
career-high four goals in a 9-7 victory over St. Vincent in the
Tigers’ 2013 home opener. Heading into the Tigers’
North Coast Athletic Conference-opener against Kenyon, Wittenberg
has outscored its opponents 52-35. Shoger came into the season with
just two goals and two assists in his career, which has been
limited due to injuries. |
Rachel Ross
Softball (3/18/13): Junior Rachel Ross has been a
steady performer through her first two collegiate seasons, and
during the Wittenberg softball team’s trip to Florida she
continued to perform at her customarily high level. Ross posted a
record of 4-1 with a sparkling 2.26 earned run average during the
trip as the Tigers posted their best start ever with eight wins in
nine games. In addition to tossing five complete games while
chewing up 34 innings in the pitcher’s circle, Ross was hot
at the plate, batting .423 with four doubles, one home run and
seven runs batted in during the trip. |
Molly Gustafson
Women's Swimming & Diving (2/12/13): Heading
into the annual NCAC Championship Meet, junior breaststroke
specialist Molly Gustafson has been in excellent form for the
Wittenberg women’s swimming and diving team. The Tigers
compiled a 9-3 dual meet record in the 2012-13 season, with all
three losses coming to teams ranked nationally. She capped her
individual dual meet season with an impressive first-place finish
in the 200-yard breaststroke against third-ranked Kenyon with a
time of 2:27.54. She also finished second in the 1000-yard
breaststroke and swam a leg on the third-place 200-yard medley
relay team in the same meet as she earned NCAC Swimmer of the Week
honors on Feb. 4. A two-time All-American, Gustafson has the
second-fastest time in the league in the 100 breast and third-best
time in the 200 breast heading into the conference championship
meet. |
Sam Collins
Men’s Basketball (2/12/13): Sophomore
forward Sam Collins has started all 23 games for the Wittenberg
men’s basketball team in the 2012-13 season, helping the
Tigers to records of 15-8 overall and 8-6 in the NCAC (through Feb.
12), good for third place in the conference standings heading into
the final week of the regular season. Collins ranks third on the
team in scoring with 10.8 points per game, including a career-high
21 against Oberlin on Jan. 21, and he ranks second on the team in
rebounds with 5.8. He also leads the Tigers with 65 assists. |
Brea Medlock
Women's Track & Field (2/12/13): Freshman Brea
Medlock's collegiate career is off to a tremendous start, as she
has already become one of the top sprinters for the Wittenberg
women's track and field team. She earned NCAC Athlete of the Week
honors on Feb. 4 after picking up a pair of individual victories at
Wooster's Fighting Scot Invitational, where she won the 400-meter
dash in a time of 1:01.42 and the 200-meter dash in a time of
0:27.02. Medlock followed that up with a fine performance at the
challenging All-Ohio Invitational at Otterbein on Feb. 9 as she
placed eighth in the 200-meter dash and fourth in the 400-meter
dash against some of the best competition in all of NCAA Division
III. She also ran a leg on the 4x200-meter relay that placed
seventh. |
Justin Yates
Men's Track & Field (2/12/13): Sophomore
Justin Yates is off to a fast start to the 2013 Men's Indoor Track
and Field season. Yates took first-place finishes in the 400-meter
dash at both the Defiance Invitational and Wooster's Fighting Scots
Invitational, where the Tigers won their first indoor track team
title since 1997. He was rewarded for his efforts with NCAC Athlete
of the Week honors on Feb. 4. Yates topped himself a week later,
breaking the school record in the 400-meter dash at the All-Ohio
Invitational at Otterbein as he crossed the finish line in a time
of 49.68, the 11th-fastest time in all of NCAA Division III. He
then joined three teammates to smash another school record, this
time finishing first in the 4x400-meter relay at the All-Ohio
Invitational. In defeating some of the best competition in the
nation, the members of the 4x400-meter relay posted a 29th-best
time nationally. |
Steven Newell
Men's Basketball (1/11/13): Junior guard Steven
Newell serves as one of the team captains for the Tiger men's
basketball team, which stands 10-4 overall at the midway point of
the 2012-13 season. Newell ranks third on the team with 20 assists
and second in steals with 15, in addition to his 1.5 rebounds per
contest. He ranks fourth on the team in scoring at 8.4 points per
game, but most importantly he is providing a much-needed
three-point shooting threat. Thirty-three of Newell's 37 successful
field goal attempts so far this season have been three-pointers,
and he leads the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) in both
three-pointers and three-point field goal percentage (.508). He
just misses the threshold of 2.5 three-pointers made per game
— if he did qualify, Newell would rank seventh in all of NCAA
Division III for three-point field goal percentage. |
Katelyn Haralamos
Women's Basketball (1/11/13): Sophomore Katelyn
Haralamos led the Wittenberg women's basketball team's mid-season
surge by earning Tournament MVP honors in Wittenberg's Charles B.
Zimmerman Memorial Classic Dec. 28-29. Haralamos started out the
weekend with nine points, five rebounds and five assists in a 62-44
win over Defiance before topping herself the next day in a
thrilling 61-60 victory over then-second-ranked Mount Union.
Haralamos scored a game-high 21 points and pulled down a team-best
six rebounds in the win, and her lay-up with 3:15 remaining
jumpstarted the Tigers' game-ending 7-2 run that turned a
four-point deficit into a most unlikely victory. She hit 9-of-13
shots from the field in leading the Tigers to their first win
against a nationally ranked team since the second round of the 2004
NCAA Division III Tournament, when the Tigers beat 15th-ranked
Messiah on the Falcons' home floor. Haralamos was named North Coast
Athletic Conference Player of the Week and to the d3hoops.com
National Team of the Week on Jan. 2. |
Scott Masin
Men's Basketball (1/11/13): Junior Scott Masin
continues to elevate his play for the Tigers, reaching double
figures in scoring in 13 of the first 14 games of the 2012-13
season. Masin leads Wittenberg with a 14.9 points per game scoring
average, including a career-high 21 points in a win over Kenyon on
Jan. 9. Masin also leads the Tigers by a wide margin in rebounding,
pouring in 8.9 board per game to rank second in the North Coast
Athletic Conference (NCAC). He also achieved a career high in
rebounds with 15 against Ohio Christian on Dec. 15, one of seven
games in which he finished with a double-double. |
Enri Small
Women's Basketball (1/11/13): The Wittenberg
women's basketball team has enjoyed a mid-season resurgence, in no
small part due to the strong play of sophomore Enri Small. She
leads the team in scoring at 11.9 points per game after reaching
double figures in five straight games (through Jan. 11) and eight
of the last 10. Most recently, Small put together the first
double-double of the Tigers' season and her own career against
Hiram on Jan. 4 while doubling her personal best in rebounds with
14 and tying her career best in assists with four. She also totaled
seven steals, good for the third-best single-game total in team
history. Twenty-one hours later, Small matched another career high
with 23 points against Allegheny, including eight in a row to erase
an early 13-12 deficit. Small was named North Coast Athletic
Conference Player of the Week on Jan. 7 and to the d3hoops.com
National Team of the Week on Jan. 8. |
Jane Tsivitse
Women's Swimming and Diving (12/11/12): Jane
Tsivitse is in the midst of an outstanding senior season, providing
leadership as one of the Tiger women’s swimming and diving
team’s captains in 2012-13 while consistently turning in
strong performances in the pool. After helping the Tigers to a 6-1
mark in dual meet competition in the first half of the campaign,
Tsivitse topped herself at the DePauw Invitational, helping
Wittenberg to a thrilling one-point win in the two-day event.
Individually, Tsivitse broke the school record in the 200-yard
butterfly and added school, pool and meet records in the 100-yard
butterfly with an NCAA B Cut time of 57.44. Her best work came in
the relays, however, as she swam a leg of the winning 400-yard
medley relay that set pool and meet records and earned a B Cut and
a leg of the winning 200-yard freestyle relay that set pool and
meet records. She was then joined by Sarah Wilson, Maggie White and
Dani Lacy to touch out DePauw in the meet-ending 4000-yard
freestyle relay while breaking the school, pool and meet records by
more than seconds. |
Scott Masin
Men's Basketball (12/11/12): Junior Scott Masin
has stepped up for the Tiger men’s basketball team in his
first season as a starter. He leads the team and ranks among the
top 10 in the North Coast Athletic Conference in scoring at 13.1
points per game and rebounding at 7.4 per outing for Wittenberg,
which is 5-2 in the early going of the 2012-13 season. Masin also
ranks third on the team in assists with 10 and steals with seven,
in addition to leading the Tigers with five blocked shots. Masin
has played 28 minutes per game to rank second on the team. |
Amber Lara
Women's Basketball (12/11/12): Sophomore Amber
Lara has picked up right where she left off a year ago, scoring 7.7
points per game in the early going of the 2012-13 season for the
Tiger women’s basketball team, which is off to a 3-4 start.
She ranks fourth on the team offensively, including a high of 18
points in a narrow loss to Kenyon on Dec. 5. Lara has played the
most minutes of any Tiger, and she ranks third on the team in
assists with 1.2 per game and third on the team in rebounding at
4.3 per game. |
Justin Yates
Men's Track and Field (12/11/12): Sophomore Justin
Yates and his Tiger teammates kicked off the 2012-13 indoor track
and field season with a solid performance at the Tiffin University
Open on Dec. 1. The highlight of the meet came in the first-place
finish by the 4x400-meter medley relay team. Yates anchored the
relay for the Tigers, following junior Chris Frierson, freshman
Laike Wallace and freshman Ben Ampudia. Yates added third place in
the 400-meter dash in a time of 51.34. |
Desi Kirkman
Football (11/1/12): Junior wide receiver Desi
Kirkman has done some fine work during the 2012 season, rushing two
times for 15 yards and a touchdown, catching 22 passes for 306
yards and three touchdowns, returning 11 punts for 88 yards and
returning 15 kickoffs for 304 yards. Add that all up, and Kirkman
ranks second on the team in all-purpose yards, a year after
breaking a several records for kickoff returns in a game and a
season. The numbers tell only one part of the story, however
– Kirkman’s big claim to fame was a highlight-reel flip
into the end zone during a 41-17 victory over the University of
Chicago. So spectacular was the end-over-end entrance into the end
zone that Kirkman earned a spot in ESPN SportsCenter’s
nightly top 10 plays feature on Oct. 13. |
Ed Young
Men's Swimming and Diving (11/1/12): Sophomore Ed
Young is off to a fine start to his second collegiate campaign,
starting with a strong swim in several events at the season-opening
relay meet hosted by Kenyon. He followed that up with first-place
finishes in a pair of events at the Tigers’ first dual meet
of the 2012-13 season, a clutch 16-point win over arch-rival
Wooster. In that meet, Young touched out the competition in the
1000-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle events by wide
margins of 22 seconds and seven seconds. |
Dani Lacy
Women's Swimming and Diving (11/1/12): Freshman
Dani Lacy is off to a tremendous start to her collegiate career,
with fine performances in her first two meets in the Red &
White. After turning in solid times at the season-opening relay
meet hosted by Kenyon on Oct. 20, Lacy placed second in the 50-yard
freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle in a dual meet against Wooster
on Oct. 27. It wasn’t the finishes so much as the times that
were impressive – Lacy touched the wall in 24.98 in the
50-yard freestyle and 54.62 in the 100-yard freestyle, both of
which put her among the top 25 swimmers in all of NCAA Division III
(as of Nov. 2). |
Team
Women's Soccer (11/1/12): Coming off an 8-9-1
record in the 2011 season, little was expected of the Wittenberg
University women’s soccer team. The North Coast Athletic
Conference coaches were polled prior to the 2012 season, and the
Tigers were picked to finish seventh in the final regular season
standings. Fast forward to season’s end, and the Wittenberg
Tigers were crowned NCAC regular season champions for just the
second time in program history, owners of a sparkling 7-0-1league
record and the No. 1 seed in the NCAC Tournament. After a loss to
DePauw in the NCAC Tournament semifinals, Wittenberg stands
11-4-3. |
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Ian Streicker
Men's Tennis (9/24/12): The Wittenberg men’s
tennis team is off to a 4-0 start to its 2012-13 dual match season,
in addition to a strong performance in the Wittenberg Invitational,
which included strong teams from Capital, Ohio Northern, Ohio
Dominican and Ohio Wesleyan. Sophomore Ian Streicker has picked up
right where he left off in 2011-12, compiling a 3-2 singles record
and 5-0 doubles record in the early going, highlighted by his play
in the home tournament. Streicker reached the championship match of
the A Flight in singles, and he teamed with freshman Stas Pakhomov
to win the A Flight in doubles. |
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Allie Lawwill
Women's Golf (9/24/12): Through the first three
weeks of the 2012-13 season, freshman Allie Lawwill has helped the
Wittenberg Tigers make an early statement. The Tigers have three
top-three finishes in their first three tournaments, highlighted by
a championship at the Denison Fall Classic. For Lawwill, the high
point came at the Illinois Wesleyan Fall Classic, where she turned
in a third-place finish individually to lead the Tigers to third
place in a 22-team field. Lawwill’s 74 in the opening round
and her two-day today of 153 both rank second in program
history. |
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Brock Hicks
Men's Soccer (9/24/12): Through Sept. 24, the
Wittenberg men’s soccer team is off to a 4-3-2 start as
several veteran players continue to step up their game. Among them
is senior Brock Hicks, who has three goals on the season to rank
second on the team in scoring. A starter in all nine matches after
earning honorable mention All-North Coast Athletic Conference
honors a year ago, Hicks’ season was highlighted by a
two-goal performance against Mount St. Joseph on Sept. 19. He
scored in the 70th minute, and then he banged home the
game-winner in overtime, rescuing a ball off the end line and
hitting a shot from a sharp angle to beat the Lions’
goalkeeper. |
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Jessica Batanian
Volleyball (9/7/12): Defense of the first NCAA
Division III championship in Wittenberg volleyball history started
off very well, despite the loss of five starters from the 2011
squad. Among the key players in wins over Wartburg, Whitworth and
Trinity (Texas) in the Courtyard by Marriott Wittenberg National
Invitational was senior outside hitter Jessica Batanian. She
tallied 39 kills, second-most on the team, and 36 digs, fourth on
the team, in the three matches, in addition to five blocks on the
weekend. |
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Maggie McIlvain
Women's Cross Country (9/7/12): Junior Maggie
McIlvain helped get the 2012 women’s cross country season off
to a solid start with an eighth-place finish in the Meijer Flyer
Invitational, hosted by the University of Dayton at Indian Riffle
Park in Kettering, Ohio. McIlvain placed second among Tiger runners
in the meet as Wittenberg took the second spot in the
Intercollegiate Division of the race, behind only Division II
powerhouse Cedarville. |
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Daniel Broidy
Men's Soccer (9/7/12): The Wittenberg men’s
soccer team is off to its best start since 2008, and senior
midfielder Daniel Broidy has played a key role in wins over Capital
and Mount Union and a tie with highly regarded Thomas More. After
the Tigers pulled out a 1-0 win over Capital, which hadn't lost on
its home field in nearly a year, Broidy assisted on the first goal
and scored the overtime game-winner in a 2-1 victory over Mount
Union. |
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Jacob Kuntz
Men's Cross Country (9/7/12): Junior Jacob Kuntz
helped the Wittenberg men's cross country squad kickstart its 2012
season with a first-place finish in the Intercollegiate Division of
the Meijer Flyer Invitational, hosted by the University of Dayton
at Indian Riffle Park in Kettering, Ohio. Kuntz crossed the finish
line in 16:37 as he led three Tigers in the top four positions.
Wittenberg won the meet with a total of 28 points, one better than
Division II Cedarville. |