COLLEGIATE ATHLETES David Kreps ’06 finished his soccer career at the University of Southern Maine with a 1.58 goals against average, making 365 saves and posting 21 clean sheets. He ranks second all-time in saves and shutouts. David played in the NEISL DIII Senior All-Star Game in November.
& Field Championship held on the last weekend of February, he contributed to a first-place finish for Princeton with an IvyLeague record 1:48.29 in the 800m. In April, the 4x400 relay team was named Princeton Athlete of the Week after setting a program and Ivy League record at the Tom Jones Invitational at the University of Florida with a time of 3:07.57.
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Kristin Codere ’07, a senior at Lasell College, was named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference women’s lacrosse goalkeeper of the week for three times in four weeks after helping the Lasers to two wins Mount Ida and St. Joseph’s of Connecticut. She is ranked first in the GNAC and seventh in the nation in Division III in saves per game with 13. After winning the award, Codere made 11 saves Thursday night in a 13−6 victory over St. Joseph’s College of Maine passing the 500 career save mark. Emily Vincunas ’07 has been named to the 2010 All-Region team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. She is attending Wheaton College. Kaitlin Camelleri ’08 placed 4th in the weight throw with a toss of 12.93 meters when the Union men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams competed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Coed Invitational in January. That throw broke the previous Union record of 12.71. At the Wesleyan Invitational in April, she threw a distance of 45.78 meters in the Hammer Throw, a 2-meter personal best, that qualified her for the ECAC Championships. Katie now holds Union records for both the hammer and the weight throw. In April, she was named the Liberty League Co-Field Performer of the Week. Russell Dinkins ’08 and the Princeton University 4x400 relay team set two records in two weeks in February. In the New York Road Runners race, they set a Princeton record of Run Russell Run! 3:11.63. In the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup at Penn State on February 5, the team bested that time by two seconds and set a new Ivy League record of 3:09.35. In the Road Runners race, Russell took first in the 500 with a time of 1:02.09, and, in the Sykes & Sabock Challenge, was runner-up in the 800 with a time 1:50.12. Princeton was ranked second at the time in the Mid-Atlantic region. At the Ivy League Heptagonal Indoor Track
Dinko Marshavelski ’10 was named player of the week by The Huntington News, the Northeastern University student newspaper, after scoring 23 points against James Madison on January 3 and shooting 53% from the floor. Head Coach Bill Coen called Dinko “a talented offensive player”. Dinko On January 15, 2011, the Bryant University Men’s Swim team defeated St. Francis and NJIT. Nate Lee ’10 garnered Swimmer of the Meet honors on the men’s side for the first time this season. Lee finished second in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.71 and third in the 50-yard freestyle with a 22.82 mark. Nate Lee
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The Western Mass. Pioneers soccer organization has added a U20 boys’ team to provide a feeder system to the Premier Development League team. Dennis Gomes ’95 has been tapped to head the coaching staff of the new team. Dennis has been coaching the Junior Pioneers for the past six years, during which time he also was assistant to Gary Cook in the WMA soccer program for a couple of years. Justine Douvadjian ’05 took first place in the Armenian Youth Federation Olympics pentathlon held in Philadelphia. Justine, who graduated last spring from Bryant University with a degree in finance, works for New Balance in Boston.
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Nick Dalton ’09 is playing wide receiver for the Osceola Rattlers, an amateur American football team in Orlando, Florida, that competes at the minor-league level in the Southeast Football League. The Rattlers won their first regular season game against Tampa 34-0.
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