2008-09 KU Student-Bookstore
Athletes of the Week

KU Student Bookstore Athletes of the Week

9/2 - Shane Martin, of the football team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Martin completed 20 of 23 passes in his 2008 debut for 240 yards and a touchdown. He also ran for 21 yards and a score.

9/8 - Anne Waapu, of the field hockey team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Waapu scored five goals and had two assists as the Golden Bears won three games last week. Her four goals and two assists helped the Golden Bears claim the Joshua W. Wesner Memorial Tournament title. She also had a goal in KU’s loss to East Stroudsburg.

9/15 - Kelley Healey, of the field hockey team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Healey scored two goals and tallied four assists as KU went 3-0 last week. Her four assists gave her 33 for her career, breaking the school record of 32 by Justine Baer (1998-2001).

9/22 - Raven Chiara, of the women’s soccer team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Chiara scored the only goal for the Golden Bears in a 1-0 win over PSAC East foe Millersville and the first goal in a 3-2 win at Lock Haven. The two goals have helped the Golden Bears win three straight games, two in the PSAC East.

9/29 - Chelsea Bressler, of the women’s soccer team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Bressler scored three goals and had an assist in two Golden Bear wins last week, extending the team’s winning streak to five games. In a PSAC East contest against Mansfield, Bressler had two goals, including the game-winner. Against David & Elkins, she had a goal and an assist on the game-winner in double overtime.

10/6 - Lukas Labitsch, of the men’s tennis team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Labitsch won the ITA Regionals A-Singles and A-Doubles tournaments at Bloomsburg University. Labitsch, who teamed with Arpit Sharma to win the doubles title, will compete at nationals in both the singles and doubles tournament.

10/13 - Dontay Wilson, of the football team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Wilson ran for 143 yards and two scores, including a 73-yard touchdown run, in a 42-21 win over Shippensburg at University Field.

10/20 - Kelli Pry, of the women’s golf team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Pry finished tied for fourth at the PSAC Championships with a two-day total of 155 — a 36-hole KU record on a par-72 course. She finished with scores of 76 and 79. She earned All-PSAC honors.

10/27 - Maurice Adams and Dontay Wilson, of the football team, are this week’s KU Student Bookstore Co-Athletes of the Week. The two running backs combined for 174 yards and two TDs in KU’s 26-17 win Saturday. Each had long runs for 31 yards. Adams finished with 88 yards on 14 carries and Wilson had 86 on 15 carries.

11/3 -  Joanna Horstmann, of the women’s cross country team, are this week’s KU Student Bookstore Co-Athletes of the Week. Horstmann placed 14th at the PSAC Championship meet to earn the fourth All-PSAC honor in her career. Horstmann’s All-PSAC finish this season helped KU place third as a team. She completed the race in 22:12.

11/10 - Joanna Horstmann, of the women’s cross country team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Horstmann placed fifth at the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regionals meet in a 22:08 to earn a trip to the NCAA Division II Championships on Nov. 22. Horstmann became the first KU cross country runner to earn All-Region honors in all four years.

11/17 - Melissa McQuade, of the women’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. McQuade posted back-to-back double-doubles as KU went 2-0 at the Golden Bear Classic Saturday and Sunday. McQuade had 16 points and 10 rebounds in the Golden Bears’ opener and followed that up with a career-high 30 points in a win over Pitt-Johnstown. She also had 14 rebounds and went a career-best 10-for-10 from the free-throw line in that game. She recorded nine assists in the two games.

11/24 - Stephen Dennis, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Dennis averaged 25.5 points in KU’s first two games of the season. He shot 19-of-28 from the field (67.9 percent), including 3-for-3 beyond the arc. He was 10-for-10 from the free-throw line. He also had seven assists, eight steals and two blocks.

12/1 - Joe Kemmerer, of the wrestling team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Kemmerer improved his season record at 133 pounds to 9-0 with two pins Saturday in dual meets against Delaware Valley and Elizabethtown. Kemmerer first two pins of the season included a win over the No. 4-ranked wrestler at 125 pounds in Division III, Chris Sheetz, who like Kemmerer, won his respective bracket at the East Stroudsburg Open earlier this season.

12/8 - Joe Kemmerer, of the wrestling team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Kemmerer improved 14-0, while winning the PSAC Championship at 133 pounds. His 2-1 win over the two-time defending champion, Rick Duebel. He is the first PSAC Champion at KU since 1942. Kemmerer allowed his first point of the season in the final and has won 25 straight bouts dating back to the start of his Division II NCAA title run in 2006-07.

12/22 - Dave Ben, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Ben helped the Golden Bears improved to 8-0 on the season with 32 points against District of Columbia and another 20 points in a 68-60 win over Philadelphia University. Ben is averaging 21.6 points and 5.3 rebounds per game. He also is averaging 5.3 assists a game and is shooting 52.9 percent (64-of-121) from the floor.

1/5 - Melissa McQuade, of the women’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. McQuade led the Golden Bears to a 2-1 record, averaging 15 points a game, with 23 rebounds and 10 assists. She scored 21 in KU’s win over Chestnut Hill and another 20 in a PSAC crossover win at Clarion.

1/12 - Ryan Washington, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Washington averaged 22 points and 15 rebounds over two games, recording double-doubles in wins against Edinboro and Lock Haven. Washington keyed a crucial 16-3 run in a 13-point comeback KU needed to beat Edinboro. He had a career-high 26 points in that win. He also had seven assists.

1/20 - Brett Martinez, of the wrestling team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Martinez helped the Golden Bears defeat the No. 16-ranked West Liberty State Hilltoppers with a pin of the No. 8-ranked wrestler in Division II at 149 pounds.

1/26 - Dave Ben, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Ben averaged 21 points in two games, while surpassing Lock Jennings (1989-93) to take sole possession of the KU career scoring title. Ben now has 1,704 points.

2/2 - Dave Ben, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Ben scored 67 points in two games, posting a career-high 36 points in KU’s 97-71 win over West Chester. He hit a school record eight 3-pointers against West Chester, and had a total of 11 3s for the week. He had seven assists against West Chester and five steals against Bloomsburg.

2/9 - Joanna Horstmann, of the women’s indoor track and field team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Horstmann collected a first-place finish in the 1,000-meter run at the DeSchriver Invite. Her time of 2:59.80 set a new school record in the event.

2/16 - Dave Ben, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Ben had 24 points in a comeback win at Mansfield and scored another 20 in the Golden Bears’ ninth straight PSAC East win Saturday, a 77-61 victory at Millersville.

2/23 - Steph Jeppesen, of the women’s swimming team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Jeppesen set four school records — three individual — at the 2009 PSAC Championships. She finished second in both the 200-yard breaststroke (2:17.19) and 200 IM (2:07.51), and third in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.30). All three were NCAA A-Cut times. She also was a member of the school record-breaking 800 freestyle team.

3/2 - Melissa McQuade, of the women’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. McQuade helped KU seal up the No. 3 seed in the PSAC playoffs, averaging 21.5 points and 15.0 rebounds in two games. McQuade set the new single-season rebound record with her career-high 19 against Cheyney Wednesday. She also matched her career high in points with 30 in that game. She now has 270 boards on the season, 19 better than the previous record.

3/9 - Stephen Dennis, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Dennis scored 98 points in the PSAC playoffs. In the semifinal win over Slippery Rock, Dennis scored 28 of his career-high 32 points in the first half. Dennis now leads the PSAC in scoring, averaging 21.7 per game.

3/16 - Joe Kemmerer, of the wrestling team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Kemmerer won the NCAA Division II championship in the 133 weight class for the second time in his collegiate career. Kemmerer only had three points scored against him in his four wins to earn the title. He defeated a two-time national champion in the quarterfinals and the Atlantic Region champion to win the national title.

3/23 - Steph Denlinger, of the softball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Denlinger was 13-for-29 this past week, including 12 RBIs. She tacked on four more home runs to her NCAA Division II career record. Denlinger also had two doubles, scored 13 runs and had a .931 slugging percentage for the week.

3/30 - Jason Rebuck, of the men’s outdoor track & field team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Rebuck hit two NCAA provisional qualifying marks and set a new school record. He finished first in the discus with a school record toss of 163-11. It also was an NCAA provisional qualifying mark. His second-place finish in the hammer throw (178-1) also was a provisional qualifying mark. Rebuck also placed sixth in the shot put (45-10).

4/06 - Steph Denlinger, of the softball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Denlinger had five home runs and 10 RBIs, while batting .450 in six games. She had a 1.250 slugging percentage for the week and a .500 on-base percentage to help lead KU to a 5-0-1 week and 4-0 in the PSAC East.

4/13 - Kayla Jones, of the women’s bowling team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Jones became the first NCAA Division II bowler to be named the Rookie of the Year and Bowler of the Year by the National Tenpins Coaches Association. She had a 193.7 average to help lead KU win the NEC regular season title.

4/20 - Mary Hoch, of the softball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Hoch went 4-0, starting in one game and pitching in four others. In her only start, she pitched a complete-game shutout against Bloomsburg, holding the Huskies to three hits. Hoch did not allow an earned run in 22 2/3 innings of work. She struck out 19.

4/27 - Santiago Baquerizo, of the men’s tennis team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Baquerizo went 4-0 at the PSAC tournament, earning the MVP award as KU won its eighth tournament title in 10 years. In the No. 3 doubles he was 2-0 in wins over Mercyhurst and Bloomsburg. He won both of his matches in the No. 1 singles spot as well.

5/4 - Ashley Pinter, of the women’s outdoor track and field team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Pinter swept all three of her throwing events on the day. She had a throw of 129-1 in the discus, 40-5 in the shot put and 154-9 in the hammer throw. 

5/11 - Lukas Labitsch, of the men’s tennis team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Labitsch was 4-0 in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional preliminaries, helping KU to a 2-0 record. In both of the wins, Labitsch had the match-clinching victory.

5/18 - Mike Kacelowicz, of the baseball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Kacelowicz was 4-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored in a win over Concord in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regionals. He was named to the All-Tournament team.