(Lock Haven, Pa.) – The Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Department of Athletics has officially announced the appointment of Kristen Geissler as the new Lady Eagle women’s lacrosse coach.  Geissler will also assume assistant coaching duties with Lock Haven’s national championship field hockey team.

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Eight wrestlers on Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania’s NCAA Division I wrestling team earned recognition for being among the top contenders in their weight class, including five grapplers ranked in the top 20 in InterMat’s 2001-02 NCAA Division I Pre-Season Rankings.  JaMarr Billman (Easton/Easton Area), Mike Maney (Clarence/Bald Eagle Area), Josh Millard (Mill Hall/Bald Eagle Area), Avery Zerkle (Urbana, Ohio/Graham), Trap McCormack (Loganton/Bald Eagle-Nittany), Chris Spealler (Paoli/Great Valley), Victor Jackson (Poquoson, Va./Poquoson), and Jason Gilligan (Brookville/Brookville) were all among those garnering national billings.
            Senior 149-pounder JaMarr Billman headlined the group, earning a No. 3 ranking in his respective weight class.  A 2001 All-American after finishing fifth at the NCAA national championships, Billman tallied a 25-3 overall record including a team-best eight pins.  He tore through the competition in his first season with the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and Eastern Wrestling League, capturing conference titles at both post-season championships.  
            Mike Maney, a sophomore at 141 lbs., is ranked No. 8 in the pre-season poll.  Maney, the 2001 Mat-Town and PSAC champion and EWL runner-up, qualified for nationals and finished just one win away from All-American status. Sporting an overall mark of 28-6 with a team-leading seven major decisions, the rookie was named the PSAC and EWL Rookie of the Year.
            Returning for his final season at 184 pounds is senior Josh Millard, who earns a No. 17 ranking.  Millard came on strong last season, posting a 20-13 overall mark after capturing an EWL title and his first trip to the NCAA championships.  
            Avery Zerkle also returns for his senior campaign, earning a No. 19 pre-season rating.  The Bald Eagle grappler won titles at 197 pounds at the PSAC and EWL championships en route to his first appearance at the national tournament. Zerkle finished out the season with a 25-8 overall record.
            Senior Trap McCormack returns to the mat after his most prolific season, when he registered a 30-5 overall mark, including a season-high of six falls.  McCormack garnered the PSAC title at 125 pounds and a fourth-place finish at the EWL championships.  He secured his third-straight trip to nationals with an EWL wild-card spot, where he posted a 2-2 record.  
            Receiving Special Mention at 133 pounds were Chris Spealler and Victor Jackson.  Spealler recorded a 9-5 mark last season, including four major decisions and a seventh-place finish at Mat-Town.  Jackson, a two-time Virginia state champion (130 lbs.) and two-time Freestyle All-American, red-shirted last year but is poised for action this upcoming season.  
            Jason Gilligan was among those receiving Honorable Mention at 157 pounds. Gilligan went 14-9 last season, finishing third at the PSAC Championships and fifth at the EWL tournament.  The red-shirt freshman topped off his season by earning a wild card bid into the national championships. 
            The 2000-01 Bald Eagle wrestling team, under the guidance of Head Coach Carl Poff, closed out the season with a 21^st place finish at the NCAA Division I National Wrestling Championships and a No. 21 national (InterMat) ranking.  The Haven posted a school-record 21 wins while capturing the PSAC tournament title and a runner-up finish at the EWL championships. 

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference released its list of 2000-2001 Scholar-Athletes, highlighting the academic accomplishments of a record 1,013 student-athletes from the 14 state-owned institutions in the conference.   Included in the PSAC's total number are 82 scholar-athletes hailing from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania.
      To be eligible for the conference award, student-athletes must maintain at least a 3.25 cumulative grade point average while competing in an intercollegiate varsity sport. 

The following is the list of Lock Haven University's 2000-2001 PSAC Scholar-Athletes:

LADY EAGLE SCHOLAR-ATHLETES

Name	Yr.	Sport	Hometown (High School)
Tara Ballintine	Fr.	Basketball	Allison Park (Hampton)
Stacy Herlocher	Sr.	Basketball	Jersey Shore (Jersey Shore)
Alicia Price	Fr.	Basketball/Soccer	Pittsburgh (Woodland Hills)
Lauren Bechtel	Sr.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Exton (Downingtown)
Meghan Johnson	So.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Brookville (Brookville)
Jana Kauffman	So.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Strasburg (Lampeter-Strasburg)
Jennifer Muri	Sr.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Altoona (Bishop Guilfoyle)
Jessica Stoltzfus	So.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Elizabethtown (Elizabethtown)
Angelique Conlin	Sr.	Field Hockey	Lititz (Warwick)
Sara Daley	Fr.	Field Hockey/ Lacrosse	Phoenixville (Spring Ford)
Val George	Jr.	Field Hockey	New Oxford (New Oxford)
Amy Hale	So.	Field Hockey	Hanover (South Western)
Michelle Hickey	Sr.	Field Hockey	Greene, N.Y. (Greene Central)
Ododo Omo-Osagie	Jr.	Field Hockey	Hershey (Milton Hershey)
Sara Segerlin	Fr.	Field Hockey	Penfield, N.Y. (Webster)
Carrie Witherel	So.	Field Hockey	Woodbridge, Va. (Woodbridge Senior)
Marci Yousaitis	Sr.	Field Hockey	West Lawn (Wilson)
Laura Oakes	Jr.	Lacrosse	Covington (North Penn)
Jessica Pease	Fr.	Lacrosse	New Milford (Blue Ridge)
Danielle Poynor	Fr.	Lacrosse	Levittown (Conwell Egan Catholic)
Amanda Vetterlein	So.	Lacrosse/Soccer	Springfield, Va. (West Springfield)
Christa Cox	So.	Soccer	Ephrata (Ephrata)
Rebecca Nichols	So.	Soccer	Wind Gap (Nazareth)
Christina Saxton	Fr.	Soccer	Columbia Cross Roads (Pitt-Bradford)
Lindalee Thompson	Jr.	Soccer	Ephrata (Ephrata)
Kristin White	So.	Soccer	New Tripoli (Northwestern Lehigh)
Jennifer Gable	Fr.	Softball	York (West York)
Angela Gula	So.	Softball	Jim Thorpe (Jim Thorpe Area)
Stacie Miller	Sr.	Softball	Lock Haven (Lock Haven)
Jacy Proctor	So.	Softball	Julian (Bald Eagle Area)
Julie Snavely	Jr.	Softball	Lebanon (Annville-Cleona)
Tara Trabosh	Jr.	Softball	Pottsville (Pottsville Area)
Sarah Blatz	Fr.	Swimming	Bradford, Pa.
Kristen Maksinchuk	So.	Swimming	Pittsburgh (Plum)
Erin March	Jr.	Swimming	Wellsville (Dover)
Sara McClure	Fr.	Swimming	North East, Pa.
Brooklyn Fanus	Sr.	Track and Field	Mt. Holly (Boiling Springs)
Jaime Gauer	So.	Track and Field	Neshanic Station, N.J. (Somerville)
Suzanne McCombie	Fr.	Track and Field	Edensburg (Northern Cambria)
Darla Neff	So.	Track and Field/ Volleyball	Trout Run (Liberty)
Briana Winkler	Sr.	Track and Field	Newark, N.Y. (Newark)
Carly Woodmansee	Jr.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Lake Como (Honesdale)
Corry Cass	Jr.	Volleyball	Ault, Colo. (Highland)
Angie Daughterty	Sr.	Volleyball	Wrightsville (Eastern)
Jillian Klinzing	Sr.	Volleyball	Pittsburgh (South Park)
Stefanie LaFata	Sr.	Volleyball	Reading (Holy Name)
Kathryn Stallings	Sr.	Volleyball	Mechanicsburg (Mechanicsburg)
Brianne Stark	Fr.	Volleyball	Bradford (Bradford)
BALD EAGLE SCHOLAR-ATHLETES
Name	Yr.	Sport	Hometown (High School)
Richard Franco	Fr.	Baseball	Lebanon (Cedar Crest)
John Hanna	So.	Baseball	Lock Haven (Lock Haven)
Brian Hanna	So.	Basketball	Lock Haven (Lock Haven)
Christopher Ruff	Fr.	Basketball	Halifax (Halifax)
Michael Acresti	Sr.	Cross Country	Canton (Canton)
Jesus Iturrino	Fr.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Prospect Park, N.J. (Manchester Regional)
Michael Rohl	Fr.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Harleysville (Souderton)
Michael Trumbull	So.	Cross Country/ Track and Field	Punxsutawney (Punxsutawney)
Brent Emel	Fr.	Football	Mill Hall, Pa.
Edward Galiczynski	Sr.	Football	Barnesboro (Northern Cambria)
Michael Lopata	Fr.	Football	Nesquehoning (Panther Valley)
Derrik Metz	Fr.	Football	Roaring Spring (Central)
Bjoern Priske	Jr.	Football	Berlin, Germany
Andrew Thiboldeaux	Jr.	Football	Langhorne (Neshaminy)
Warren Whitaker	Fr.	Football	Wilkes-Barre (GAR Memorial)
Rob Battisson	So.	Soccer	Leicester, England
Graham Boyle	Fr.	Soccer	Paisley, Scotland
Justin Chirico	Jr.	Soccer	Conesus, N.Y. (Livonia)
Jon Davy	Jr.	Soccer	Grimsby, England
Richard Melchior	Jr.	Soccer	Pittsgrove, N.J. (Schalick)
Jeffrey Mercier	Sr.	Soccer	South Rawdon, Canada
Scott Lightfoot	Jr.	Track and Field	Medford, N.J. (Shawnee)
Frank McMaster	Fr.	Track and Field	Bensalem (Neshaminy)
Micah Smith	So.	Track and Field	Hanamaulu, Hawaii (Kauai High)
Bryan Walter	Fr.	Track and Field	Milton (Milton)
Scott Bair	Sr.	Wrestling	Mill Hall (Bald Eagle Nittany)
Charles Brenneman	So.	Wrestling	Hollidaysburg (Hollidaysburg)
Gerard Carroll	Fr.	Wrestling	Hackensack, N.J. (Hackensack)
Brett Kleckner	Fr.	Wrestling	Beech Creek (Central Mountain)
Michael Maney	Fr.	Wrestling	Clarence (Bald Eagle Area)
Trap McCormack	Jr.	Wrestling	Loganton (Bald Eagle Nittany)
Matthew Meisenhelter	Sr.	Wrestling	Red Lion (Red Lion)
Frank Piff	Jr.	Wrestling	Catasaqua (Catasaqua)
Craig Tefft	Sr.	Wrestling	Oxford, N.Y. (Oxford Academy)

(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Mike Maney (Clarence/Bald Eagle Area) and Jason Gilligan (Brookville/Brookville), both members of the Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania wrestling program, were selected to the recently released 2001 Amateur Wrestling News (AWN) All-Rookie Team.
            Maney was selected as the top rookie at 141 pounds, wrapping up his inaugural campaign with a trip to the national championships and finishing one win away from All-America honors.  He went 28-6 over the season, including a 17-3 dual meet record with a team-leading seven major decisions, and was one of two Haven grapplers to be seeded entering into the NCAA tournament.  Maney helped LHU to a PSAC team title by capturing an individual conference title, was the runner-up at the Eastern Wrestling League championships, and also won an individual Mat-Town U.S.A. title.  He was ranked as high as 11^th in the nation during the season and earned several post-season awards for his efforts, including PSAC and EWL Rookie of the Year.

Mike Maney

Jason Gilligan

            Gilligan was the fifth-ranked freshman at 157 pounds after closing out the 2000-01 season with a 14-9 overall mark.  Despite battling an early season injury, the rookie bounced back to earn All-PSAC honors with a third-place finish.  Gilligan made his first trip to the NCAA championships after receiving a wild card bid following a fifth-place performance at the EWL championships.  
            The Lock Haven wrestling team under the guidance of 11^th year head coach Carl Poff, finished 21^st at the 2001 national championships following a record-setting season in which they went 21-2 in dual meets and captured the PSAC tournament title.

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – The Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania NCAA Division I Wrestling team earned recognition as one of the nation’s top academic teams as released by the National Wrestling Coaches Association.  The Bald Eagle squad was 13^th on the NWCA’s Top 25 Division I Wrestling Academic Teams list, sporting a cumulative 3.024 grade point average for the 2000-2001 school year.
            Leading the way this season was Princeton University, which established a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.430 over the year.  Stanford University (3.235), Boston College (3.226), Harvard University (3.223), and Central Michigan University (3.187), respectively, rounded out the top five academic teams.  Lock Haven was the only ranked program from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference and among Eastern Wrestling League programs, was second only to #8 Cleveland State University, whose wrestlers earned a 3.136 grade point average.
            A total of 11 teams listed among the nation’s premier academic squads also finished in the top 25 at the 2001 NCAA Division I National Wrestling Championships, including the Bald Eagles.  In fact, the LHU grapplers are the highest-ranked team academically among those select programs.
            The Lock Haven wrestling team, led by Head Coach Carl Poff, finished 21^st at the 2001 national championships following a record-setting season in which they went 21-2 in dual meets and captured the PSAC tournament title.

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – The hard work and dedication of Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Head Wrestling Coach Carl Poff and his staff has paid off, giving the Bald Eagle grapplers one of the strongest recruiting classes in the nation.  Lock Haven is ranked fifth in InterMat’s recently released list of the Top 25 Recruiting Classes for NCAA Division I Wrestling.
            Seven state champions with a combined 11 state titles comprise the bulk of LHU’s incoming class.  In addition, five state qualifiers will also join the Bald Eagle squad this fall.
            InterMat’s 2001 Top Recruiting Class honors went to Iowa State University, with the University of Iowa, University of Minnesota, and Oklahoma State University rounding out the top four. 

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Stacie Miller (Lock Haven/Lock Haven) was selected to the Verizon Academic All-America College Division Softball Second Team, as voted on by the members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).  A first team, second team, and third team are selected, with each softball all-academic team consisting of 11 student-athletes (two pitchers, a catcher, four infielders, three outfielders, and a designated player).

Stacie Miller

             To be nominated for Academic All-America honors, the student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for her career.  No athlete is eligible until she has reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at her current institution.
            Miller earned Second Team Academic All-America honors, sporting impressive academic and athletic credentials. As a student, the senior catcher for the Lady Eagle softball team maintained a 3.82 grade point average in Health and Physical Education.  She earned LHU’s Health and Physical Education Sophomore and Junior of the Year awards, and is currently a three-time Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete.  Miller was also selected as a PSAC Top Ten Award winner this spring.
            The Lady Eagle has the athletic accolades to match her notable academic skill, earning PSAC West Player of the Year honors this season in addition to ECAC South Region First Team All-Star recognition.  She also merited her fourth-straight All-PSAC selection this season.  Miller’s 2001 totals for home runs (10) and slugging percentage (.818) marked new LHU season records, and her 36 RBIs tied the existing Lock Haven record.  She also holds Lock Haven all-time records in doubles (41) and RBIs (75).  
            Miller is one of just two student-athletes from the PSAC to earn national recognition as a Softball Academic All-American, and is the only Health and Physical Education major among those selected.

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Several baseball and softball players for Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania were awarded Eastern College Athletic Conference Division II South All-Star honors.  Among those recognized were the Bald Eagle baseball team’s Dan Sowash (State College/State College) and Jason Laubach (Mifflinville/Central Columbia) and the Lady Eagle softball team’s Stacie Miller (Lock Haven/Lock Haven), Tara Trabosh (Pottsville/Pottsville Area), and Jocelyn Tutrani (Royersford/Royersford).
             Dan Sowash makes his first appearance on the All-ECAC list, taking his place among the First Team All-Star members.  A North Atlantic First Team All-Region and First Team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference pitcher, the junior right-hander went 9-2 from the mound, setting a new LHU record for season wins.  He posted a 1.16 ERA, setting another new school mark and holding the best average in all of NCAA Division II as of May 20. Sowash rewrote the history books again by throwing 74 strikeouts over the course of the season.  He made a total of 11 appearances, throwing seven complete games with five shutouts in 69.2 innings of work.
            LHU outfielder Jason Laubach earns Second Team ECAC All-Star honors.  Laubach, also a First Team All-PSAC West outfielder, paced the Lock Haven offense with a .411 batting average (51-124) in 41 starts.  The senior Bald Eagle also led the squad and was among conference leaders with nine doubles, five home runs, and 30 RBIs.  On defense, Laubach was flawless, securing 52 putouts and five assists with no errors.
           Stacie Miller earned First Team ECAC All-Star accolades.  The senior catcher for the Lady Eagles was the PSAC West Player of the Year and also a First Team all-conference player.  Miller led Lock Haven and was among PSAC leaders in batting average (.427), doubles (13), home runs (10), RBIs (36), and slugging percentage (.818).  She recorded new school records for single season home runs and slugging percentage, and her 36 RBIs tied the existing LHU mark.  With this year’s numbers, Miller took over the Lock Haven career records for doubles (41) and RBIs (75).  
            Junior first baseman Tara Trabosh earned Second Team ECAC All-Star honors.  Trabosh was also named to the First Team All-PSAC, hitting .318 including four doubles, a triple, and three home runs.  Her 15 RBIs was second only to Miller’s total.  Trabosh has led the Lady Eagles in fielding percentage for the past two seasons, this year posting a .985 percentage including a team best of 322 putouts. 
            Rookie third baseman Jocelyn Tutrani makes her inaugural appearance on the ECAC’s All-Star list, being selected to the Second Team.  A First Team All-PSAC infielder Tutrani posted 86 assists and 37 putouts in her first season of collegiate action.  At the plate, she recorded 29 hits (4 doubles, 1 triple) and seven RBI with a .302 batting average. 
            The Lock Haven baseball team finished off the 2001 season with a 29-12 overall mark and a 13-7 PSAC West ledger.  The Lady Eagle softball team was 16-21 overall and even at 10-10 in the PSAC Western Division. 

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(top to bottom) LHU Baseball's Dan Sowash and Jason Laubach.
(top to bottom) LHU Softball's Stacie Miller, Tara Trabosh, and Jocelyn Tutrani.

(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Stacie Miller (Lock Haven/Lock Haven), a senior softball player for Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, earned recognition as a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Spring Top Ten Award winner, as released last week.
         The PSAC Top Ten awards recognize five male and five female student-athletes from the PSAC who distinguish themselves in the classroom, as well as in the arena of competition.  The conference designates Top Ten Award winners after each of the competitive sports seasons, fall, winter and spring. 

Stacie Miller

            This season Miller was selected as the PSAC Western Division’s Player of the Year and a First Team All-PSAC catcher.  A four-year starting catcher for the Lady Eagles, Miller led the squad and was among PSAC leaders in nearly every offensive category, including batting average (.427), doubles (13), home runs (10), RBIs (36), and slugging percentage (.818).  Her totals for home runs and slugging percentage marked new LHU season records, and her 36 RBIs tied the existing Lock Haven record.  Miller, now a four-time All-PSAC player, also holds Lock Haven all-time records in doubles (41) and RBIs (75).
        Miller has a cumulative 3.813 grade point average as a Health and Physical Education major at Lock Haven, and also earned Verizon Academic All-American honors this season.           
        To be a candidate for the Top Ten Awards, a student-athlete must have achieved a minimum of a 3.25 cumulative grade point average and be a starter or key reserve with legitimate athletic credentials.  Only student-athletes from the Spring sports season are eligible for the Spring Top Ten Awards.  Those sports include softball, baseball, golf, women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s tennis.   
          The Top Ten Awards provide the PSAC an extra tier in the recognition of the top student-athletes on all PSAC squads with 3.25 cumulative GPA's or better.  Additionally, the PSAC names the top Male and Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.   

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Tom Carey (Altoona/Altoona), a freshman student-athlete on the Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania men’s track and field team, was selected as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Men’s Track and Field Rookie of the Year.

Tom Carey

            Carey captured the PSAC title in the discus, outdistancing the rest of the field by over 20 feet with a winning throw of 167’6” at the conference meet.  An NCAA Division II National Championship qualifier, Carey finished 14^th with a toss of 163’10”. The Bald Eagle rookie set a new LHU record in the discus this season with his career best throw of 175’4” earlier this year.  He placed fourth at the Penn Relays in the event, and went undefeated in all other regular season competition.  Carey was also selected as the NCAA Division II East Region Male Athlete of the Year.
            The Lock Haven men’s track team finished as the runners-up at this year’s PSAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania’s Brianna Bair (Bellefonte/Bellefonte), Jennifer Farrow (Canton/Athens) and Marsha Krysiewski (Kingston/Wyoming Valley West) each earned All-America accolades to highlight the Bald and Lady Eagle track teams’ performances at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field National Championships being held at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville this weekend.   
            “This is the most All-Americans we’ve ever come back with, and especially the most for our women’s team,” said LHU Head Coach Mark Elliston.  “I can’t say enough about the way all of our athletes competed, and I’m extremely proud of the effort all six of them gave. For Marsha (Krysiewski), it was just great for her to close out her Lock Haven career as an All-American.  Brianna (Bair) and Jen (Farrow) are very deserving of their All-American titles, and I hope they’ll make the trip again next year.”           
           Junior Brianna Bair  repeated as an All-American in the javelin, throwing a 138’4” to take seventh place out of the 16-strong field.  Bair was also the PSAC champion in the event this season.  This was her third straight appearance at the national meet.
            Sophomore sprinter Jennifer Farrow became LHU’s second All-American on the day, recording a 57.66 in the 400-meter dash finals for an eighth-place finish.  She had advanced to the finals of the 400-meters after clocking a 56.48 in the preliminary round.  A two-time PSAC champion in the event, this marks Farrow’s first All-America award after finishing ninth in the 400 meters at last year’s national meet.

LHU's All-Americans

Brianna Bair

Jennifer Farrow

Marsha Krysiewski

            Senior Marsha Krysiewski made her first appearance at nationals one to remember, finishing in a tie for third place in the high jump for All-America honors with a clearance of 5’5 ¾”.  She tied for third with a familiar competitor in Clarion University’s Melissa Yearous.   Krysiewski had beaten the two-time defending PSAC champion in the event at this season’s conference championships with a clearance of 5’6 ¼” for the title.  
            The senior Lady Eagle also competed in the heptathlon, closing out the event with a personal best total of 4,618 points for a ninth-place finish – just one place out of All-America honors.  Coming into nationals seeded 16^th out of the 16 vying for the title, Krysiewski’s final score is the best recorded in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference this season as well as the second best in LHU history.  
            Two-time All-American and 1999 800-meter champion Matt Sauls (Langhorne/Neshaminy) fell just short of his quest for a second national title, finishing ninth in the finals of the 800-meter run with a 1:58.12.  Sauls had put himself in prime position to earn another top-eight certificate in the 800 meters by clocking a 1:50.94 in the preliminary heat yesterday, the fifth fastest time of the day, to advance to the finals.  Sauls’ time in the preliminary heat was his best performance this season in the 800 meters, and was less than one second off his school record time of 1:49.95 set at the national championships in the 1999 season.  
           In his first appearance at nationals, freshman Tom Carey (Altoona/Altoona) finished in 14^th place in the men’s discus with a throw of 163’10”.  Sophomore Lady Eagle Jocelyn Held (Slatington/ Northwestern Lehigh), also making her debut at the NCAA meet, cleared 10’4” to finish 16^th in the finals of the pole vault.  

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) -    Dan Sowash (State College/State College), a pitcher for the Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania baseball team, earned a spot on the North Atlantic All-Region First Team as released this week.

Dan Sowash

            This is the first all-region accolade for Sowash, who also earned First Team All-Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Western Division honors for his performance this season. 
            The Lock Haven University baseball team finished off the 2001 season with a 29-12 overall mark and a 13-7 PSAC West ledger.  The Bald Eagles’ 29-12 record marks the best win percentage (.707) for any team under LHU head coach Paul “Smokey” Stover (1992-present).

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) -  Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania track and field student-athletes Tom Carey (Altoona/Altoona) and Marsha Krysiewski (Kingston/Wyoming Valley West) were voted the Male and Female NCAA Division II East Region Athletes of the Year, as released yesterday by the Division II Cross Country/Track and Field Coaches Association.
          Freshman discus thrower Tom Carey was selected as the East Region’s Male Athlete of the Year.  Carey set a new Lock Haven record in the discus with a season best of 175’4”.  This year’s Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference discus champion, the rookie outdistanced the rest of the field by almost 20 feet with his winning toss of 167’6” at the conference meet.  He placed fourth at the prestigious Penn Relays in the event, and went undefeated in all other competition during the regular season.  Carey is currently 11^th on the national list entering into the NCAA championships this weekend.

Tom Carey

Marsha Krysiewski

             Senior Marsha Krysiewski became the first track athlete in Lock Haven history to qualify for competition in two events at the national championships, the heptathlon and the high jump. She captured the PSAC high jump title with an NCAA qualifying mark of 5’6 ¼”, making all her clearances on the first attempt. She finished second at the conference championships in the heptathlon with an NCAA provisional qualifying score of 4,568 points.  Krysiewski also ran the second leg of the fifth-place finishing 4x400 meter relay at the PSAC championships.
        Kutztown University’s Brian Mondschein was voted the East Region Men’s Coach of the Year, and Slippery Rock’s John Papa earned East Region Women’s Coach of the Year honors.
            Six members of the Lock Haven men’s and women’s track and field teams, including Carey and Krysiewski, are in competition this weekend at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field National Championships being held at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville from May 24-26.

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(Lock Haven, Pa.) – Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania has won the Dixon Trophy as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference’s most successful all-around athletics program for the 2000-01 academic year.  This is the first win for Lock Haven, last finishing as high as second place in the 1999-2000 school year. 
            The Dixon Trophy is named after F. Eugene Dixon, Jr., former chairman of the Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education.  It has been awarded annually since 1995 to the PSAC member institution that accumulates the most points based on results of conference playoffs and/or regular-season records.  Each institution’s point total is calculated by adding its top six men’s finishes and top six women’s finishes in 20 conference sports. 

             Lock Haven won the trophy by tallying 117.5 points and tied the largest margin of victory in the history of the award by matching Shippensburg’s 1997-98 five-point triumph.  Shippensburg University finished second, five points behind LHU, with 112.5 points, and Kutztown University was third with 111.5 points.  Bloomsburg (109) and Edinboro University (107.5) rounded out the top five.
        “It is such a great honor for our University’s athletic program to have earned this award,” said Lock Haven President Craig Dean Willis.  “We are all extremely proud of the accomplishments of our teams, and winning the Dixon Trophy is a much-deserved reflection on the dedication and commitment that Lock Haven’s student-athletes, coaches, athletics directors, sports information, and other support staff have demonstrated throughout the year.”
           “The entire program should be thrilled by the performance of our teams,” said Lock Haven Director of Athletics Sharon E. Taylor.  “It’s a credit to the hard work of our student-athletes and coaches.  We’ve targeted some areas for improvement, so if we add that to what we’re already doing, LHU should remain competitive for some years to come.”
            The Lock Haven program captured a league-best four conference titles as the Bald Eagles and Lady Eagles claimed the PSAC crown in wrestling, field hockey, women’s volleyball and women’s soccer.  A number of runner-up performances aided in LHU’s prominence, taking second in men’s and women’s track and field and women’s cross country.  The Haven also had the highest women’s total with 65.5 points.
            Over the course of the year, Lock Haven had 60 student-athletes garner All-PSAC honors with 19 of those earning all-region and/or All-America honors.  Additionally, two coaches earned PSAC Coach of the Year honors, six student-athletes were awarded PSAC Rookie of the Year recognition, and two student-athletes were named the PSAC Athlete of the Year.  

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