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AROUND THE QUADS

ROAR LION ROAR

HARRIERS

Caitlin Hickin ’04 and Steve Sundell ’04 earned All-America honors at the NCAA cross-country championships in Waterloo, Iowa, on November 24, and the women’s team, despite being weakened by injury and illness, finished 13th in the nation.

“Overall, I am greatly pleased,” said Willy Wood, director of track and cross country. “We had two All-Americans and [the women] finished among the nation’s top 13 teams. I have no doubts that if we were healthy, we would have finished higher. But even so, we walk away as one of the top distance programs in the nation.”

Trish Nolan ’05 missed the entire season due to a foot injury and Lisa Stublic ’06 was hit with the flu in the week before the NCAAs. Stublic still managed to compete — despite the 20-degree temperature and strong winds — and help the women’s team, which earlier had won the Heptagonal Championships for the second consecutive year and the Metropolitan Championships for the sixth consecutive year, to a solid finish.

Hickin was the Lions’ leading finisher, placing 27th, followed by Melissa Stellato ’04 (74th), Stublic (93rd), Tenke Zoltani ’06 (156th), Delilah DiCrescenzo ’05 (162nd), Loretta Kilmer ’05 (179th) and Alex Guerrero ’04 (191th). It was the second time Hickin earned All-America honors, having also done so as a sophomore, when she finished 20th in the NCAAs.

Sundell, the only Columbia male runner to qualify for the NCAAs, finished 32nd, a significant improvement over last year’s 61st-place finish. He earlier had won the Heptagonals (in which the Lions placed second as a team) and finished second in the Northeast Regionals.

Hickin, Stublic and Stellato earned All-Ivy first team honors for their performances at the Heps, while Zoltani, Kilmer and Guerrero were named to the second team. On the men’s side, Sundell made All-Ivy first team and Karl Dusen ’05 and Gerry Groothuis ’05 made second team.

ALL-IVY

Cross-country runners weren’t the only Columbia athletes from fall sports to earn All-Ivy recognition in 2003. Football’s Nick Rudd ’05 was doubly honored, earning first team recognition as a punter and honorable mention as a place kicker. Other football players cited were Steve Cargile ’04, Kevin Coco ’04, Wade Fletcher ’05, Ayo Oluwole ’04 and Michael Quarshie ’05 (second team) and Travis Chmelka ’04, Stephen McKoy ’04 and Prosper Nwokocha ’06 (honorable mention).

Soccer’s Tommy McMenemy ’04 was a unanimous first team selection for the second year in a row. Other men honored were Dean Arnaoutakis ’05, Sekou Cox ’06, Stephen Foster ’05 and Blake Lindberg ’06 (second team) and Gui Stampur ’04 (honorable mention). From the women’s soccer team, Erica Woda ’04 and Jana Whiting ’05 (second team) and Courtney Nasshorn ’06 and Shannon Munoz ’07 (honorable mention) were recognized.

Field hockey’s Kate Mansur ’05 was voted to the All-Ivy second team and volleyball’s Natalia Premovic ’07 received honorable mention.

ALL-ACADEMIC

Soccer goalie Dean Arnaoutakis ’05 was named to the Academic All-America first team by the College Sports Information Directors Association, which honors athletes who display leadership in the classroom as well as in athletics. The biology/pre-med major posted a league-leading 0.83 goals-against average this season with six shutouts. He played every minute of every game in goal for the Light Blue.

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