Dattilo repeats as academic all-American

For the second consecutive year, midfielder Josie Dattilo ‘23 has earned academic all-American honors from the United Soccer Coaches (USC).

Dattilo is a kinesiology and integrated physiology major with minors in business and psychology. She was the only student-athlete from the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference’s 10 schools to earn recognition and one of only seven repeat selections for this year’s honor.

A two-time Heartland Conference defensive player of the year, Dattilo was the Heartland Conference’s newcomer of the year in 2019 and is a four-time all-HCAC honoree. She started all 18 matches for Hanover during the 2022 campaign. She tallied seven points, netting two goals with three assists.

United Soccer Coaches, founded in 1941, is the world’s largest soccer coaches’ organization with more than 32,000 members.

Women’s track and field posts three firsts, two marks at HCAC indoor meet

Hanover’s women's team posted three first-place finishes and set two school records while earning a second-place finish at the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference indoor track and field championship. The 10-team event was held Feb. 25 in Cincinnati.

Zaleeya Martin ’23 established Heartland Conference and school records in the 60-meter dash to win the league crown in the event for third time in four seasons. Martin – who also holds Hanover’s 100- and 200-meter outdoor records – posted a time of 7.73 seconds to trim six one-hundredths off her previous mark of 7.79 set just eight days prior at the Rose-Institute of Technology’s Friday Night Spikes.

Ally McGuire ’25 won the Heartland Conference’s title in the pole vault with a 2.55-meter effort (8-feet, 4.4-inches). Teammate Aliza Boles ’26 also cleared 2.55 meters but placed second due to an increased number of attempts.

Amberleigh Sorensen ’24 won the HCAC indoor championship in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:25.42. Just one week prior, Sorensen had become Hanover’s fastest indoor miler with a time of 5:16.24 at the Wittenberg University Invitational, eclipsing the mark of 5:17.29 set by Arig Tong ’22 during the 2020 season.

Jessie Stenger ’25 set a school record and posted a second-place finish in the shot put. Stenger’s 13.15-meter heave (43-feet, 1.7-inches) was eight one-hundredths of a meter (3.15 inches) farther than the previous record set by teammate Jessica Beckman ’23 Jan. 27 in Terre Haute, Ind. Hanover totaled 127.5 points to place second in the indoor championship field. Rose-Hulman tallied 195.5 points to claim the team title. Manchester University placed third with 89 points.

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Greenamoyer establishes new three-pointer records

Guard Max Greenamoyer ’24 set two of the Hanover men’s basketball program’s single-season three-point field goal records during the 2022-23 campaign.

A two-time all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference selection, Greenamoyer made 80-of-207 attempts from long range this winter, both school marks. He set the records Feb. 19 by hitting 5-of-14 three-pointers in the Panthers’ 83-73 victory against Franklin College in the quarterfinals of the HCAC tournament. Greenamoyer earned first-team all-HCAC honors this season after averaging 14.4 points and 4.3 rebounds in a team-high 34.7 minutes per game. He paced the Heartland Conference in made and attempted three-point shots.

Recent hall-of-fame inductee Thad McCracken ’04 set Hanover’s previous record with 76 three-pointers for the Panthers during the 2003-04 campaign. That season, McCracken made 76-of-194 long-range attempts while helping the squad post a 26-2 overall record.

Houston joins 1,000-point club

Ty Houston ’23 became the 39th member of the Hanover men’s basketball program’s 1,000-point club during the 2022-23 season. Houston, a three-time all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference selection, capped his career with 1,157 points to rank 30th in school history.

Houston, a guard, led the Panthers in scoring for the past two seasons. He paced Hanover with 16.5 points per game this winter and also contributed 6.9 rebounds and 2.0 assists per contest. He topped the 1,000-point mark Jan. 25 with a 28-point outing to lead the Panthers to an 84-78 win at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Mark Gabriel ’70 stands as the top scorer and rebounder in school history. Gabriel netted 2,368 points and grabbed 1,463 rebounds for Hanover from 1966-70.

Miller reaches 250-victory milestone

Jon Miller ’97 recorded his 250th win as Hanover’s head men’s basketball coach Jan. 25 with an 84-78 victory at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

A four-time Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference coach-of-the-year honoree, Miller has led the Panthers to a 256-133 record in 15 seasons on the sidelines. Overall, he has posted a 323-196 record in 20 seasons as a collegiate head coach. He posted a 67-63 record in five seasons at Defiance College before returning to his alma mater in 2008.

Hanover capped the 2022-23 season with an 17-10 overall record. The Panthers finished third in the Heartland Conference with a 12-6 mark.

The late John Collier ’51 has the most wins in Hanover’s history. Collier, a charter member of Hanover’s Athletic Hall of Fame, notched a 388-242 record as the Panthers’ head coach from 1966-88.

Crawford appointed men’s and women’s swimming coach

Jay Crawford has been appointed head coach of Hanover’s men’s and women’s swimming teams. He had served as the Panthers’ interim head coach since last October.

Crawford becomes just the second coach for the College’s program since its formation in 2017. He has 20 years of experience coaching at the high school-, middle school- and club-team levels and was co-founder of the Southwestern Aquatics Team, a local age-group club.

During a 20-year run as a coach at Southwestern (Ind.) High School, he guided two state qualifiers, two sectional champions and more than a dozen all-Ohio River Valley Conference performers. His athletes broke all of the program’s girls’ records multiple times and set eight boys’ school marks.

This past winter, Crawford helped Hanover’s swimmers set school records in the men’s 100-meter butterfly and 500-meter freestyle and the women’s 100-meter backstroke and 100-meter freestyle. Three swimmers earned all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference honors at the league’s championship meet in February.