The women’s varsity four boat won the gold medal and the team placed third overall at the Colonial Athletic Association Championships at Sandy Run Regional Park in Virginia on April 29. The varsity four boat of coxswain Katherine Evely, Margaret Lawn, Julia Hahn, Katie Coffin and Cornelia Willis edged Boston University by a tenth of a second. The two boats exchanged leads five times before the Bulls held off the Terriers for the win, finishing in 7 minutes, 47.5 seconds. The same group won the bronze medal in June at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association National Championships, finishing in 7:25.44. It was UB’s first appearance in the event. Rowing program coach Randy WIELER Wieler announced he would retire at the end of the season, completing an 11-year tenure during which he helped propel the Bulls to national prominence, including multiple wins at the prestigious Dad Vail Regatta.
BASKETBALL New York City native
Felisha Legette-Jack
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Baseball, Murphy have season to remember The 2012 season will be one to remember in the annals of UB Bulls baseball. The Bulls won their first MAC tournament game in program history on May 24, defeating Ohio 6-5 on a 10th-inning double by Alex Baldock. The next day, UB eliminated Western Michigan before falling to top-seeded Kent State in the MAC semifinals. In that game, junior catcher Tom Murphy cranked his 13th home run of the season, setting a Bulls BALDOCK single-season record. “I told the team after the game that this is something to be proud of; we put Buffalo on the map and hopefully every single team going forward will strive to match what we did here this week,” Murphy says. The great news continued for Murphy, who was taken by the Colorado Rockies in the third round (105th overall) of the Major League Baseball first-year player draft. “For Murph, it wasn’t about stats. It was about the team and getting to where we wanted to be,” says head coach Ron Torgalski. “Our goal was to make the MAC tournament and now he is able to move on having met that goal.” David J. Hill is a staff writer in UB’s Office of University Communications.
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Women’s rowing captures gold; Wieler retires
Former Senior Associate Athletic Director Paul Vecchio was named director of athletics at Alfred University, his alma mater. Vecchio began his appointment at Alfred in July.
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Watt’s three-game shot block total (13) set an invitational WATT record, garnering the Goodyear, Ariz., native a mention on NBA. com. Watt keyed coach Reggie Witherspoon’s Bulls to their secondstraight 20-win season, concluding with a 20-11 overall record ROBINSON and a program-best 12-4 mark in MAC action. UB fell to Ohio University in the MAC tournament semifinals. Following the MAC tournament, UB earned an invite to the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. The Bulls’ season ended with an 84-76 loss to Oakland in the tournament’s second round after defeating American University in their tournament opener. In June, Titus Robinson signed a contract to play for the SB Tigers of the Thailand Professional Basketball League.
was named head women’s basketball coach on June 14. She succeeds Linda Hill-MacDonald, who guided the Bulls for seven seasons. Legette-Jack joins UB from Indiana University, where she spent the past six seasons as head coach, guiding the Hoosiers to a program record-tying 21 wins in 2008-09. FOOTBALL Wide receiver and Lackawanna, N.Y., native Marcus Rivers signed a free agent deal in April with the Green Bay Packers, joining former Bulls teammate and Super Bowl champion James Starks, BA ’10. TRACK AND FIELD Junior Asia Henry set a new school record in the 800 meters while finishing 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. The Rochester, N.Y., native finished fourth in her heat with a time of 2:04.65. Also competing in the championships, Rob Golabek, BA ’12, placed 12th in the shot put with a throw of 61-0.25 feet to earn secondteam All-American honors. The Hamburg, N.Y., native caps his outstanding career as a four-time All-American and UB record holder in both indoor and outdoor shot put.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“Through his gift, Jack ensures the team will live on in perpetuity in the hope and expectation that future players and teams will carry on the team’s noteworthy legacy: teammate loyalty in the face of injustice.”
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Fred Kogut, EdM ’65 & BA ’60, 1958 Bulls football team member, on teammate John “Bear” Dempsey’s significant estate gift in support of the 1958 Lambert Cup Team Football Endowed Scholarship. www.alumni.buffalo.edu UBTODAY Fall 2012
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