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Winter 2001-2002 Athletics Round-up

* Men's and Women's Fencing
* Women's Basketball
* Men's Basketball
* Men's and Women's Swimming


Men's and Women's Fencing

  • The men's fencing team registered the best record in history, going 17-0 on the season. The team "owned" the MACFA Championships, winning the overall 3-weapon title, the sabre title, the foil title, and placed 2nd in epee.

  • Sophomore sabre fencer Richard Frank fenced a spectacular season, suffering his only loss (67-1) on the last date of regular season competition. He won the sabre title at the MACFA Championships, and with teammates Whitney Reeds (2nd), and Brian Geyer (9th), brought home the sabre team championship.

  • The MACFA Foil Championship team was comprised of Adam Ivy, who placed 2nd, Cal Petry, who finished 4th, and Cal Dupre, who posted a 10th place finish.

  • Chris Palmer led the charge for the epee quad, as he placed 5th at MACFA. David Hively and Brian Libert were also impressive throughout the season, helping to earn Drew 2nd place at MACFAs.

  • The women's team posted an impressive 10-7 record, including winning nine of their last 10 matches. They continued to improve in the NIWFA, placing 9th in the combined 3 weapon tournament, 5th in sabre, 9th in epee, and 13th in foil.

  • Senior Jessica Kates won a medal at the NIWFA Championships by placing fourth in epee, while Laurel Jacobsen placed 7th in sabre.

  • The Rangers qualified an unprecedented 14 fencers for the NCAA Regionals, including Frank, Geyer, Reeds, Hively, Libert, Palmer, Dupre, and Ivy on the men's team. The entire sabre squad of Jacobson, Nina Johnson, and Hanna Eldridge qualified for regionals, as did Kates and Esther Yun in epee, and foilist Laudine Vallarta.

  • Senior Jessica Kates capped off a great career by earning the NIWFA Scholar Athlete Award.

Women's Basketball

  • The women's basketball team finished a banner year, breaking 10 school records and finishing 11-14 (one win shy of tying the single season win record). The team broke single season game records in points, field goals, three pointers, and assists. The team also set a new mark in consecutive conference victories.

  • Sophomore Lauren Aliano led the Rangers in scoring (13.5 ppg) and rebounding (5.3 rpg), and shot a team-high 78% from the free throw line. She also broke the single-season record for three point field goal percentage, shooting 39% from behind the arc.

  • Freshman Sarah Marquez, who was the team's high scorer in eight of 16 games played before cutting her season short with a broken hand, set a single game record for three-point field goal attempts with 11. She tallied 243 points for the Rangers with a career-high 31 points against Philadelphia Biblical University and was twice named to the Freedom Conference Athletic Honor Roll.

  • Junior Eileen Herr had a team-high 98 assists and set a new record for individual assists in a game with 12.

  • Senior Alex McCaffrey had a solid senior season, averaging 4.2 rebounds per game. Her career total of 406 ties for ninth place on Drew's all-time top-10 list.

  • Juniors Elizabeth Cozine and Catherine Seto, and sophomores Ashley Payne and Jennifer Shea earned Freedom Conference All-Academic Honors.

Men's Basketball

  • The men's basketball team finished 12-13 this year, marking the program's best record since the 1996-97 season. The Rangers won the annual Rose City Classic Tournament in November with a crushing 70-47 win over SUNY Maritime in the title game.

  • Senior Diego Reino earned Freedom Conference second team honors and broke his own single season school record for assists with 149. He graduates 3rd on Drew's all-time assist list with 325; he also led the conference with 5.9 assists per game.

  • Freshman Brad Greenman led the team in scoring, averaging 13.7 points per game and had a team-high 62 three-pointers.

  • Junior Mike Machin led the team in rebounding with a season total of 219 and earned Freedom Conference Player of the Week in January; he was also second on the team scoring with 12.7 points per game.

  • Co-captains Mike Machin and Diego Reino earned Freedom Conference All-Academic Honors along with junior Matt Novak, senior Ben Huntington and sophomore Ian Chester.

Men's and Women's Swimming

  • The men's team finished undefeated in the conference and 9-6 overall; and the women finished with an overall record of 7-9

  • The Rangers garnered 10 medals at the Middle Atlantic Conference Championships with the men's squad placing 3rd and the women finishing 6th.

  • Sophomore Brent Archer received the David B. Eavenson Sr. Award which goes to the MAC's Most Outstanding Male Swimmer, after he captured gold in the 100 and 200 yard backstroke and the 100 yard butterfly. In the 200 yard backstroke he broke his own MAC record, and set a new mark for Drew as well. For the second consecutive year Archer won the100 and 200 yard backstroke at the ECAC Championships. He also set a new 200 yard freestyle record for Drew.

  • Senior co-captain Mike Migliori placed third in the 100 yard backstroke at MAC's earning him a spot on the MAC All-Star Team.

  • Senior Matt Armstrong along with Archer, sophomore Kevin McCrann and freshman Dave Capezza, broke the school's 200 and 400 yard freestyle records.

  • McCrann also place 3rd in the 100 freestyle at MAC's and set new records in the 50 and 100 yard freestyle earning him a Conference All-Star honor.

  • Junior Jin-Kyung Yoon broke school records for the women's team in the 100 and 200 yard backstroke events. She also won two medals at MAC's, finishing 2nd in the 200 backstroke and 3rd in the 100 butterfly.

  • Senior co-captain Emily Randall was named a Freedom Conference All-Star after placing 3rd in the 50 freestyle at MAC's.

  • Senior co-captain Megan Hanson along with Randall, Yoon and freshman Casey Doty set a new school mark in the 400 medley relay.

  • Brent Archer, Matt Armstrong, Corey Bower, Greg Hickey, Kevin McCrann, Mike Migliori, Adam Schulz, Megan Hanson, Christina Martinez, Lauren Nicoll, Emily Randall and Jin-Kyung Yoon all earned Freedom Conference All-Academic Honors.

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