Past KU Student Bookstore Athletes of the Week

9/2   Chrissy Jack, of the women’s soccer team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athletic of the Week. Jack helped the Golden Bears open the 2003 season in style, scoring three goals and dishing out an assist in KU’s two victories in the T.G.I. Friday’s/Pizzeria Uno Classic. Jack had a goal and an assist in the 3-0 win over Molloy, then scored two goals in the 3-0 shutout over Shepherd.

9/8 Molly Lare, of the women’s cross country team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Lare began her collegiate career in style, winning the Lehigh Valley Championship with a time of 22:54 on the 6K course.

9/15  Tim Krusen, of the football team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Krusen had nine tackles, including five for loss of 19 yards and two sacks for 15 yards. Krusen led the defense that held Lock Haven to just three points in KU’s 7-3 win over the Bald Eagles on Saturday.

9/22   Danielle Gould, of the women’s soccer team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Gould led Kutztown to a 2-0 week, including a pair of 2-1 victories over PSAC foes East Stroudsburg and Clarion. Gould scored the game winner against East Stroudsburg and assisted the first goal against Clarion.

9/29  Mandi Johnsen, of the women’s soccer team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Johnson pitched a pair of shutouts in KU’s 2-0 week against PSAC competition. Johnsen had seven saves in the 3-0 win over Millersville, while picking up nine saves in the 1-0 victory at Edinboro. Johnson has seven shutouts this season, tying the school record set by Tracey Blanchard in 1994.

10/6  Matt Scartozzi, of the football team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Scartozzi, KU’s place kicker, connected on a 38-yard field goal with 0:50 left in the contest to give Kutztown a 17-16 win over nationally ranked West Chester. Scartozzi was also 2-of-2 on point-after kicks.

10/13  Alok Bhide, of the men’s tennis team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Bhide and his doubles partner, Mukundan Nandakumar, won the A Doubles title at last Monday’s ITA Regional Tournament at Bloomsburg. The victory gives the duo a berth in the ITA Small College Championship this week in Corpus Christi, TX. Additionally, Bhide advanced to the semifinals of the A Singles bracket before being knocked out.

10/20  Kelly Lau, of the women’s soccer team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Lau scored a pair of goals as KU defeated Lock Haven, 3-1. The win tied a school record for victories in a season, 11. Lau also assisted KU’s goal in a 1-1 tie vs. West Chester.

10/27 Matt Sola, of the football team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Sola led the defensive charge in Kutztown’s 17-0 shutout over Millersville. He had eight tackles, including a career-high five sacks for –22 yards.

11/3  Molly Lare, of the women’s cross country team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Lare earned All-PSAC honors at the Cross Country Championships at Bloomsburg on Saturday. Lare finished seventh in the race to pace Kutztown to fourth-place team finish. Lare completed the 6K course in 23:28. She is the first freshman to earn All-PSAC honors in cross country for KU since Megan Seefeldt in 1998.

11/10  Katie Herman, of the women’s volleyball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Herman led KU to a 3-0 week, including PSAC East wins over Millersville and East Stroudsburg. In 15 games, Herman had 150 assists, 64 digs and 13 kills. During the week, she set KU’s single-season record for assists and became the first Golden Bear to record 1,000 assists in a season.

11/17  DeLorean Reese, of the women’s swimming team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Reese led the Golden Bears to a 104-101 win over East Stroudsburg on Saturday. Reese was a double individual winner for KU, taking the 200 free in 2:02.47 and the 500 free in 5:29.78. She also swam the second leg of the victorious 400 free relay, the final event of the meet, which gave KU the dual-meet victory.

11/24  Matt Rowan, of the men’s swimming team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Rowan led Kutztown to the team title at the Golden Bear Invitational last weekend. Rowan won the 50 free in 21.18 to win the event, but his leg of the 200 free relay (20.92) set KU's school, pool and meet records and qualified him for nationals. He also set a pool and meet records and made the provisional cut for nationals in the 100 back, with his 52.32 split on the winning 400 medley relay. Rowan also took first in the 100 back (52.34) and 100 free (47.10), and led off the victorious 400 medley and 200 free relays.

12/1  Bilal Salaam, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Salaam helped Kutztown to an 81-63 win at Columbia Union on Tuesday. He scored 11 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and blocked eight shots. Salaam was 4-of-5 from the floor and hit 3-of-4 free throws against the Pioneers.

12/8  Bilal Salaam, of the men’s basketball team, repeats as this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Salaam averaged a “double-double” in three games last week. He averaged 11.7 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. He also blocked 10 shots. Against Indiana (PA), he had seven points, 11 rebounds and five blocks. Against Shippensburg, Salaam notched 16 points and 12 rebounds.

12/19 Amanda Zinobile, of the women’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Zinobile averaged 14.5 points in Kutztown’s two games this week. She scored 21 points, hitting 7-of-10 field goals and 6-of-6 free throws, in a 65-50 loss to Edinboro. She then scored eight points with four assists and five rebounds in a 66-57 loss at Clarion.

1/5  Frank Moultrie, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Moultrie was instrumental in Kutztown’s victories over PSAC West foes Slippery Rock and California (PA). He scored a career-high 26 points, including 21 in the second half, in KU’s win over #17 California. He hit five three pointers, and connected on two free throws with 10 seconds left to ice the 66-62 decision. Against Slippery Rock, Moultrie scored 13 points.

1/12 Bret Wade, of the wrestling team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Wade was a perfect 3-0 in his three matches of the week. Despite the team going 1-2 at the East Regional Duals at Shippensburg over the Weekend, Wade was a bright spot. Wade won by fall in KU’s win over Anderson, won by decision in overtime in the loss to Gannon, and won by decision in the loss to West Liberty State. Wade’s 11-4 record this season is the best among the Golden Bears.

1/20  Justin Collins, of the men’s indoor track & field team, won two events to lead the Golden Bears at the Kutztown Invitational on Friday. Collins won the long jump with a distance of 22-11 1/4, more than a foot longer than his nearest competitor. He then won the triple jump with a leap of 43-7 1/4.

1/26  Justin Collins, of the men’s indoor track & field team, won two events and placed second in another to lead the Golden Bears at the Susquehanna Invitational on Friday. Collins won the long jump with a distance of 23-8 3/4, nearly two feet longer than his nearest competitor. He also ran a leg of the winning 4x400 meter relay (3:24.32). The long jump mark was an NCAA provisional distance and both his long jump and the 4x400 meter relay were field house records. Collins also placed second in the triple jump (44-9 3/4).

2/2  Bilal Salaam, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Salaam averaged 20.5 points and 11.0 rebounds in KU’s two PSAC East victories over Bloomsburg and Millersville. Salaam scored a career high 27 points on 12-of-15 shooting in the win over Bloomsburg. His slam dunk with 5.8 seconds left broke a 75-75 tie and gave KU the win.

2/9  Jeff Brickus, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Brickus averaged 12.7 points in Kutztown’s three games last week. In KU’s two PSAC East games, against West Chester and Cheyney, Brickus averaged 19 points and 7.5 assists per game, while connecting on 56% (14-25) of his field goals. He scored 16 points in the win over West Chester, and added 22 in the loss to Cheyney.

2/16  Monique Boykins, of the women’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Boykins averaged 16 points and 15 rebounds in two Golden Bear victories last week. She scored 10 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in KU’s PSAC East win over Mansfield, then scored 22 points and hauled in a career-high 17 rebounds against the University of Sciences.

2/23 Matt Rowan and Brad Borek, of the men’s swimming team, are this week’s KU Student Bookstore Co-Athletes of the Week. The duo led the Golden Bears to a program record third-place finish at the PSAC Championships. Rowan was the PSAC Champion in the 50 free, and placed third in the 100 free and fourth in the 100 back. Borek won the PSAC title in the 100 breast, setting a school record in the preliminaries. He also placed third in the 200 breast. The duo were also part of three third place relays

3/1  Matt Haverly, of the baseball team, and Justin Collins, of the men’s indoor track & field team, are this week’s KU Student Bookstore Co-Athletes of the Week. Haverly earns the honor after pitching a perfect game against East Stroudsburg on Saturday. Haverly retired all 21 batters he faced in the seven-inning victory. He had a career-high nine strikeouts. Collins shares the honor after being named the Most Outstanding Field Athlete at the PSAC Indoor Championships. He was the PSAC Champion in the long jump and triple jump.

3/8  Jeff Brickus, of the men’s basketball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Brickus was the catalyst in Kutztown’s post-season run, leading the Bears to wins in the PSAC Quarterfinals and Semifinals, before KU lost to Indiana (PA) in the championship game. He averaged 19.7 points and 3.3 assists in the three games. He had 21 points, 6 assists and five rebounds against Mansfield, 22 points and 5 rebounds against California, and 16 points against IUP.

3/15  Justin Collins, of the men’s indoor track & field team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Collins earned All-America honors at the NCAA Division II Championships on Friday in Boston. Collins finished fifth in the long jump, with a distance of 24-0 1/4. It was his third career All-America performance.

3/22  Sara Otis, of the women’s outdoor track & field team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week. Otis was a double winner as KU finished fourth of 11 teams at the UNC-Wilmington Seahawk Invitational. Otis won the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:04.39, and ran the third leg of the winning 4x400 relay. She was also a member of KU’s second-place 4x100 relay.

3/29  Alison Maurer, of the women’s outdoor track & field team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week.  Maurer won two events to help lead Kutztown to the team title at the Lehigh Valley Championships on Friday.  Maurer won the hammer throw with an NCAA provisional heave of 165-10.  She also won the discus with a PSAC-best performance of 134-6.   

4/5  Johannes Wingerter, of the men’s tennis team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week.  Wingerter won all five matches he played this week, leading the Golden Bears to three dual-meet wins.  Wingerter was 3-0 in doubles matches, playing at #1 and #2 doubles, and 2-0 in singles competition, playing #2 singles. 

4/12  Adriane Willmer, of the softball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athlete of the Week.  Willmer led Kutztown to a 6-2 week, including wins over the region’s top two ranked teams, Shippensburg and Bloomsburg. Willmer hit .429 (12-for-28) in eight games, with six runs and five RBI.  In the win over Bloomsburg, she was 2-for-3 and scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning.  She was 2-for-4 in the win over Shippensburg. 

4/19 Matt Haverly, of the baseball team, is this week’s KU Student Bookstore Athelte of the Week.  Haverly pitched a one-hit shutout against East Stroudsburg on Friday.  He took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, before allowing a single to lead off the seventh.  He finished with seven strikeouts, and faced just two batters over the minimum for seven innings.