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In athletics, honors abound

Cassondra Boston and Alex Pyle, named ESU’s Female and Male Athletes of the Year, highlight a long list of accomplishments in ESU athletics in the 2008-09 year. Along with
the baseball team, women’s basketball and volleyball claimed MIAA championships, softball won the MIAA tourney championship, men’s indoor track and field took second in the MIAA while the outdoor men took third, and men’s basketball finished third in a hotly contested league race.

MIAA Coach of the Year Winners
Bing Xu - volleyball
Bob Fornelli - baseball

MIAA Player of the Year
Ting Liu - volleyball
Ida Edwards - women’s basketball
Conner Crumbliss - baseball

MIAA Freshman of the Year
Vincent Howze - men’s indoor track & field
Katie Mona - women’s indoor track & field

MIAA Sportsmanship Award (tennis)
Kevin Schoon

All-Americans
ESU had 14 student-athletes earn All-American
honors in seven sports in 2008-09.
Ting Liu & Arica Shepard - volleyball
Ida Edwards – women’s basketball
Miranda Campbell - softball
Conner Crumbliss – baseball
Connie Philips & Brooke Kent – women’s outdoor track and field
Sam Williams, Kenton Lonberger, Josh Schuler, Derwin Hall, & Vincent Howze – men’s outdoor track and field
Alex Pyle – men’s indoor track and field
Josh Honeycutt –men’s outdoor and indoor track and field

Last Updated July 29, 2009