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All-ECAC Weekend for Emmanuel Track & Field Over the weekend of March 1-3, 14 members fo the Emmanuel College Indoor Track & Field team travelled to New York City to compete in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships

NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Emmanuel College Saints posted several incredible performances at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships on Saturday, March 2 at The Armory. Overall, the Saints collected ten AllECAC honors and set five new Emmanuel records at the Championships. Junior Nathan Bruno (Lenox, Mass.) couldn’t have been better on Saturday morning, as he tore up the track in the men’s 500 meters. Bruno’s time of 1:03.77 earned him 1st place in the event and he crossed the line more than two seconds

ahead of his nearest competitor, a Hamilton College sophomore, who finished in 1:05.80. Bruno’s All-ECAC performance broke his own EC program record. Bruno finished 2nd in this event at the ECACs in 2012 with a time of 1:04.75. He is just the second EC student-athlete to win an ECAC Championship. Emmanuel’s Chris Conway won the ECAC 55m hurdles championship back in 2009. Bruno’s flawless ECAC 500m performance will conclude the indoor season, as NCAA does not run a 500m race at nationals. Sophomore Adam Julien (New Orleans, La.) sprinted to a 7th place in the men’s 400 Members of the Indoor Track & Field team with their coaching staff at the Armony in NYC during the ECAC Championships.

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By the Numbers – The 2013 Emmanuel College men’s volleyball roster is the youngest it has ever been as 17 of its 18 members are underclassmen. Senior setter Nick Updike (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) is the lone upperclassman on the squad that has been ranked as high as No. 15 in the AVCA National Poll this season.

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By the Numbers – Senior forward Fiona O’Dwyer (Stamford, Conn.) finished her storied four-year career with 1,557 points to rank third among the Saints all-time leading scorers. She wrapped up her EC career with 920 rebounds, the most in a career by an Emmanuel hoopster.

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Men’sVolleyball Downs No.11 Elmira at Baruch Invitational NEWYORK, N.Y. – Sophomore outside hitter Ashanti Jackson (Sacramento, Calif.) slammed home a match-high 18 kills to lead the Emmanuel College Men’s Volleyball team past No. 11 Elmira, 3-1 (25-19, 21-25, 25-23, 25-18), Feb. 24 at the Baruch College Invitational.

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at UMass Boston vs. Elizabeth College vs. Hilbert College vs. Keuka College vs. Saint Joseph’s (ME) * at Norwich University * at Anna Maria College * vs. Rivier University *

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at Regis College vs. Nichols College vs. Rivier University * at Lasell College * vs. Bard College at Simmons College * vs. Univ. of St. Joseph (CT) *

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vs. Wentworth * vs. Harvard vs. Kean University vs. MIT vs. Elms College at Endicott College vs. Mount Ida College * at MIT vs. Lasell College * at Johnson & Wales Univ. * at Emerson College at Mount Ida College * vs. Albertus Magnus * vs. Rivier University *

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at Fastpitch Dreams Classic at Anna Maria College * (DH) 3:30 pm vs.Rivier University * (DH) 12:00 pm at Norwich University * (DH) 1:00 pm vs. Suffolk University * (DH) 6:30 pm at Pine Manor College (DH) 12:00 pm

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Laura Benvenuto Women’s Basketball

On February 16 in the regular season finale against Suffolk University, senior guard Laura Benvenuto (Wyckoff, N.J.) came up with a huge defensive effort to help the Saints clinch the No. 1 seed in the GNAC tournament with their 56-35 victory over the Rams. Benvenuto registered a career-high eight steals in the win while also scoring 11 points. Her eight steals rank 11th all-time in program history for most thefts in a single-game.

Connor Morgan Men’s Basketball On February 19 in the final game of his career, senior forward Connor Morgan (Gloucester, R.I.) lit it up in the GNAC Quarterfinals, scoring a career-high 33 points in the Saints 85-76 loss to No. 1 Anna Maria College. The forward was on fire, connecting on 13 of his 15 shots from the field including 5 of 6 from behind the arc. Morgan’s 33 points ranks fourth all-time for points scored in a single game by an Emmanuel men’s basketball player while his .867 shooting percentage on the night is the third-best single-game performance in program history.

Nathan Bruno Men’s Indoor Track & Field

On Saturday, Feb. 16 at the Division III Championships at the University of Southern Maine, Emmanuel junior Nathan Bruno (Lenox, Mass.) raced to his best-ever time in the 600 meters, tearing up the track in an Emmanuel-record time of 1:21.06. Bruno’s 3rd place finish earned him All-New England honors in the event for the third-straight year. Bruno had previously placed 7th as a sophomore and 8th as a freshman in the 600m.

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meters. Julien’s one-lap time of 49.25 broke his own EC program record in the event. After just missing All-ECAC honors with his 9th place finish (49.80) as a rookie, Julien’s top-eight finish earned him All-ECAC honors for 2013. The Emmanuel men’s 4x400 meter relay team placed 4th overall in a new Emmanuel record time of 3:19.93. Finishing behind Cortland State, University of Southern Maine and Coast Guard, the Saints team of Bruno, Julien, Ryan Thomas (Wakefield, R.I.) and Ben Perdue (West Springfield, Mass.) earned AllECAC honors with their top-eight finish. The Saints 4x800m relay squad also earned All-ECAC honors. The team of Abdi Ibrahim (East Boston, Mass.), Chris Baker (Holden, Mass.), Thomas Tallo (Lincoln, R.I.), Patrick Callan (Pawling, N.Y.) cruised to a 7th place finish in a time of 8:00.29, breaking the program record they set two weeks ago by six and a half seconds. The Emmanuel men’s Distance Medley Relay, featuring Baker, Thomas, Bruno and Ibrahim, raced to a 10th place finish in a

time of 10:30.09. As a team, the Emmanuel men scored 19 points to finish in 17th place overall out of 51 competing teams. The Emmanuel women qualified for the ECACs in the 4x800 meter relay. The Saints team of Molly Metivier (Keene, N.H.), Chloe Egan (Burlington, Vt.), Julie Young (Derry, N.H.) and Meaghan Mauer (South Hadley, Mass.) finished in 9:59.71 for another new program record. The squad cut five seconds off the record time they set just two weeks prior. This was a historic weekend for the Saints’ Track & Field program. The ten All-ECAC performances was Emmanuel’s best showing ever at an ECAC Championship, surpassing the previous high of five all-star performances at the outdoor ECACs in 2012. The Eastern College Athletic Conference has nearly 200 members in Division III alone, making the championships among the largest such meet in the nation. The Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships have been contested, both men’s and women’s, since the mid1980s.

Women’s Basketball makes 18th appearance in NCAA Tournament ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Emmanuel College Women’s Basketball Team suffered a heart-breaking 70-66 loss to the University of Rochester on Friday, March 1 in the opening round of the NCAA Regional. The battle featured seven lead changes and eight ties, before the host Yellowjackets nipped the Saints to advance in the national tournament. Emmanuel will close out the season with an overall record of 23-6. Fiona O’Dwyer scored 21 points and grabbed a team-high 11 rebounds to lead Emmanuel. Laura Benvenuto netted 13 points and Sarah Higgins added 12, going 8-9 from the line. Britni Mikulanecz chipped in with 5 points and dished out 5 assists in 37 minutes of action. Click Here to read the full story

SuperFan of the Month EC SuperFan of the Month – Jaelyn Walsh Jaelyn, daughter of EC Associate Athletic Director Alexis Mastronardi, is one of the biggest Saints supporters, even at the young age of 6. Not only did Jaelyn make the trip out to Rochester, N.Y. to cheer on the women’s basketball team in the NCAA tournament, she attended the team’s private shootaround.

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Emmanuel College Women’s Basketball coach Andy Yosinoff was inducted into the University of Rhode Island Athletics Hall of Fame for his accolades as a Men’s Tennis player in the late 1960’s.

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Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Following his success at URI, Yosinoff became an adapted physical education teacher in the Boston Public Schools and coached boys’ high school basketball at the Snowden International School. Joining the staff at Emmanuel College in 1976, Yosinoff has served as the Head Coach of the Saints Women’s Basketball Team for the past 36 years, making him the third alltime tenured coach at any one school, trailing just Elizabethtown’s Yvonne Kauffman (42 years) and Tennessee’s Pat Summitt (38 years) in most years coached at one school. Yosinoff became the Director of Athletics at Emmanuel in 1986, a position he held along with his coaching duties until 2003. During his 36 seasons with the Saints, Yosinoff has led Emmanuel to 18 NCAA Tournament appearances and to 15 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) titles, including a current streak of seven-straight GNAC Championships. He has coached the Saints as far as the NCAA Final Four in 2001, to the NCAA Elite Eight in 2012 and to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in 2007. Currently, Yosinoff and the Saints have put together an impressive streak of thirteen-straight 20-win seasons and have not suffered a regular season conference loss since the 2009 season. Yosinoff is the third all-time winningest coach in Division III Women’s Basketball history and the second winningest active coach. Yosinoff captured his 700th career victory earlier this season, becoming the first Division III coach in New England to hit this milestone. He joined Division I UCONN’s Geno Auriemma and Division II Bentley’s Barbara Stevens in a trio of New England women’s coaches with 700 or more wins. Following Emmanuel’s Elite Eight run in 2012, Yosinoff was

2003 and was among the first class inducted to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference Hall of Fame in 2010. “I’m so proud of this great honor,” commented Yosinoff. “This is definitely the highlight of my athletic career.” View the video shown at Yosinoff’s URI Hall of Fame induction on February 24, 2013.

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. – Emmanuel College’s Head Women’s Basketball Coach and Associate Director of Athletics, Andy Yosinoff, can add yet another prestigious honor to his resume. Yosinoff was recently inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame of his alma mater, the University of Rhode Island. A 1970 graduate of URI, Yosinoff was a standout on the Rams Men’s Tennis Team, before his reign as the head coach of the perennially powerful Emmanuel Saints Women’s Basketball Team. The URI Athletic Department hosted the Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Quidnessett Country Club on the scenic coast of Rhode Island. The event was originally supposed to take place as a Hall of Fame dinner on February 8th, but was postponed due to the “Blizzard of 2013.” Regardless of the date and time change, Yosinoff’s fan club was well-represented at what became a Sunday morning brunch. Yosinoff’s supporters filled four tables, with one full of friends and family, one with Emmanuel College co-workers, one with his former URI tennis teammates and one with Yosnoff’s URI fraternity brothers. As the top singles player for the URI Men’s Tennis Team in 1970, Yosinoff led the Rams to a perfect 14-0 season that was capped off by the school’s first-ever Yankee Conference title. Yosinoff also won the conference’s individual title that season and finished his career with a record of 48 wins and 12 losses in singles competition. Yosinoff holds the distinction of being the first Rhode Island student-athlete to earn a scholarship in tennis. A member of the United States Professional Tennis Association, he held the No. 1 singles spot in the URI lineup all four years with the Rams. Yosinoff graduated from URI in 1970 with the Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and went on to earn his Master’s Degree in Physical Education from

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Roecker Calls It Like She Sees It Over the past 11 years, Emmanuel College Director of Athletics Pam Roecker has served as a freelance basketball broadcaster for several major TV networks including Comcast Sports Network, ESPN U, Fox, MSG and NESN. Over her career, Rocker has done live color analysis for the Colonial Athletic Conference, Northeast Conference, Big East, Atlantic 10, Horizon League and America East.

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honored by the Jewish Coaches Association with the Red Auerbach Award for the National Jewish Coach of the Year. In 2005, Yosinoff led the United States Women’s Basketball Team to a gold medal in the Maccabiah Games in Israel. This is Yosinoff’s third Hall of Fame induction. He was previously inducted to the New England Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in

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What do you like most about Emmanuel? I love going to school in Boston. Favorite place on campus? The gym. The library is a close second though. Favorite sports team? ECSB! Favorite athlete? Manny Ramirez Lucky #? 21 Something that most people don’t know about you? I did tap and ballet for six years and I have an unwarranted fear of whales and the deep sea. Favorite vacation spot? I really like a lot of the places I’ve visited in California. Accomplishment you are most proud of in your sport? Pitching for the Saints for four years. Favorite holiday? St. Patrick’s Day Do you have any pets? Anyone that knows me knows I am obsessed with my two Old English Sheepdogs, Jake and Bailey. I love them very much! Favorite movie? Top Gun Favorite music artist/band? Tupac Shakur Favorite pre-game song to get pumped up? MARCH 2013

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Diplo and Friends mixes on BBC Radio 1 Xtra Pepsi or Coke? Diet Coke Guilty Pleasure TV Show? Dance Moms. The dancing is good, and the moms are ridiculous Favorite cereal? Panda Puffs or Leapin’ Lemurs. Support endangered species! Best Halloween costume you’ve worn? When I was young, my mom dressed me up as a pumpkin by stuffing an orange garbage bag full of newspaper. I looked good. Favorite city or town? Of the places I’ve visited, I think San Francisco is my favorite. Favorite ice cream? Fro-yo with fruit and chocolate. How many foreign countries have you been to? One…Canada. I don’t even have a passport. If it could rain something other than rain, what would it rain? $$$$$ Favorite Family Guy character? Stewie Favorite Person at Emmanuel? My head coach Rob Spofford! Favorite quote? “During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.” Tupac Shakur

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Saints Well Represented on All-GNAC Squads Three members from the Emmanuel College Women’s Basketball team were selected as members of the 2012-13 All-GNAC

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Emmanuel’s all-time leader in this category. Senior guard Laura Benvenuto received 3rd Team All-GNAC recognition. Benvenuto ran the show for the Saints this season, starting in the backcourt and averaging team-bests in both assists (3.7 apg) and steals (3.0 spg). One of the top defenders in the GNAC, Benvenuto led the conference in steals with 85 this season. Benvenuto was named to two different All-Tournament Teams this year, including the EC Invitational All-Tournament Team and the GNAC All-Tournament Team. In addition to her All-GNAC honor, Benvenuto was also named to the conference’s All-Sportsmanship Team for her attitude and sportsmanship on the court throughout the 2013 campaign. Sophomore center Jennifer Bujnowski joined Benvenuto, earning a spot on the All-GNAC 3rd Team. Bujnowski was Emmanuel’s second leading scorer and second leading rebounder with 9.1 points per game and 7.1 boards per game. After a stellar start to her sophomore season, Bujnowski was named the Most Valuable Player of the Emmanuel College Invitational Tournament and to the GNAC Weekly Honor Roll on November 19, 2012. Bujnowski also averaged close to a block per game in her starting role for the Saints. Emmanuel College senior forward Xavier Everson (Rochester, N.Y.) has been named to the 2012-13 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Men’s Basketball Second Team Everson was a force for the Saints all season long, averaging a team-best 18.0 points per game which also ranked third overall in the GNAC. The senior tri-captain finished the year averaging 7.0 rebounds per game to rank first among the Saints and tied for 11th in the GNAC. His 1.4 steals a game was also a team-best while ranking 13th in the conference. An extremely consistent player, Everson netted double figure point totals in 23 of his 25 games this season including a stretch in which he was in double figures for 21 consecutive games spanning from Dec. 6, 2012 through Feb. 16, 2013. The Rochester, N.Y. native put together six double-doubles on the year and registered back-toback 30 points games against the GNAC regular-season champions, Anna Maria College, on Feb. 12 and against Lasell College on Feb. 14 in a 78-66 win that clinched a playoff berth for the Saints. During the Lasell win, Everson converted 14 free-throws, a new single-game record for the Saints. A four year player and starter for Emmanuel, Everson appeared in 93 career contests to rank 12th all-time while his 90 starts ranks sixth in program history. Earlier this season, the senior became just the sixth player in program history to join the 1,000 point and 500 rebound club and accomplished both milestones in the same game, a 97-87 victory over Suffolk University on Jan. 5. Everson finishes his career ranked third all-time in scoring with 1,302 career points and third in rebounding with 626 boards. Over his career, the forward notched 13 doubledoubles and is ranked second all-time with 81 blocked shots, fourth all-time in assists with 192 helpers, and fourth all-time in steals with 119 thefts. Everson ranks within the top 10 all-time in field goal percentage, free throw percentage and three-point shoot percentage.

After leading the Saints to an undefeated 12-0 mark in GNAC regularseason action and the program’s seventh-straight GNAC title, Fiona O’Dwyer (Stamford, Conn.), Laura Benvenuto (Wyckoff, N.J.) and Jennifer Bujnowski (Salem, N.H.) were voted All-GNAC by the 13 conference coaches. O’Dwyer was deservingly named the 2013 GNAC Women’s Basketball Player of the Year. O’Dwyer is making her second-straight appearance on the All-GNAC 1st Team and her third overall All-Conference selection. A four-year starter for the Saints, O’Dwyer led Emmanuel in both scoring and rebounding this season. The senior power forward netted 17.5 points per game and hauled in 9.1 rebounds per game, recording 10 double-doubles this season. After leading the Saints to three-consecutive double-figure wins in the GNAC Tournament, O’Dwyer was named the GNAC Tourney’s Most Valuable Player. She also received four other weekly honors from the conference throughout the season, including being named to the GNAC Weekly Honor Roll three times and the GNAC Player of the Week once. With a current career total of 1,557 points, O’Dwyer will graduate as Emmanuel’s third all-time leading scorer. She also has a four-year total of 920 rebounds, ranking her among the GNAC’s top all-time rebounders and

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team including a Player of the Year nod while the Men’s Basketball team was represented with a selection as well.

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