This Week:

The Hawks tackle their only 2 duel meet weekend with SUNY Oneonta away on Friday night at 4:00pm and then the US Coast Guard Academy at home on Saturday at 1:00pm.

Format:

@ Oneonta – 400 Medley Relay, 1000 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 Fly, 50 Free, Break, 100 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 500 Free, 100 Fly, Break, 400 IM, 200 Free Relay

Vs. Coast Guard- 200 Medley Relay, 1000 Free, 200 Free, 100 Back, 100 Breast, 200 Fly, 50 Free, Break, 100 Free, 200 Back, 200 Breast, 500 Free, 100 Fly, Break, 200 IM, 400 Free Relay

Last Year:

In 2008, the New Paltz women swept the same weekend doubleheader, defeating Oneonta 129-71 and Coast Guard 144-118.  The New Paltz men split, beating Oneonta 115-63 but falling to Coast Guard 143-113.  Then freshmen Pete Nastasi had a landmark swim in the 1000 Free, going an in-season best 10:10 to lead the Hawk men.

Scouting the Opponents:

The Oneonta Red Dragons began with a pair of losses to SUNYAC rival Oswego last week.  Results can be found here: http://www.oneonta.edu/academics/athletics/archives/swimming/0910/oswego09.htm

Coast Guard travels to NY to face against New Paltz for the 2^nd straight week.  Last week, Coast Guard swept the Union Relay meet, scoring 120 points on the women’s side and 164 points on the mens side.

Last Week:

The Hawk women finished 3^rd of 4 teams and the men finished 4^th of 4 at the Union Relay Invitational.  The Hawk women claimed three relay victories, in the 300 Back Relay (Suzuka, Morris, Lester), 300 Fly Relay (Suzuka, Genovese, Wells) and 500 Crescendo Relay (Lown, Wells, Morris, Lester).  Diving played a big part in the finish as New Paltz men would have finished 2^nd if we had a program.  Results can be found here:  http://www.unionathletics.com/documents/2009/10/31/Union%20Relay%20Results%202009.htm?id=602

Upcoming Schedule:

11/14 vs. Rowan University (New Paltz, NY)1:00

11/21 @ Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) 1:00

12/4-6 ECAC Championship (East Meadow, NY) 10:00/6:00

Lauren Doolittle has been featured in this week’s “Senior in the Spotlight”.

Click here for a link to the page.

This Week:

SUNY New Paltz will face the Bears from The United States Coast Guard Academy, the Union College Dutchmen, and the Red Hawks from Montclair State—Saturday October 31, 2009 at 1:00pm.  New Paltz, USCGA, and Montclair St. will all travel to Schenectady, NY to Union College for the Union Relays.

Format:

400 Medley Relay

3 x 100 Backstroke Relay

3 x 100 Breaststroke Relay

3 x 100 Fly Relay

500 Crescendo Relay

200 Freestyle Relay

3 x 200 IM Relay

200 Medley Relay

400 Freestyle Relay

Last Year:

New Paltz finished 3^rd for both men and women at this meet last season.  For the women- Union won with 136 points, Coast Guard had 100, and New Paltz 88.  For the men- Coast Guard vectored with 122 points, Union had 118, and New Paltz 70.  New Paltz had a relay victory in the women’s 300 Breast Relay (Hopf, Ellis, Baker).

Scouting the Bears:

The Bears return a solid core of swimmers and divers from the 2008-09 season. The men’s team will be lead by senior captains Timmy Berry, Ray Chaisson and Chris Hepp. Also returning to the squad is a group of six men who qualified for NCAA Division III championships in 2009.

The Lady Bears return key swimmers: senior captains Kaitlin Godden, Ariana Pourmonir, and junior Kim Shadwick. The Lady Bears returns four NCAA qualifiers from the 2008-2009 season.

This meet will be the 2009-2010 season opener for both squads.

Last Week:

SUNY New Paltz men’s and women’s swimming teams fell to New York University and Stevens Saturday afternoon.  On the men’s side, NYU defeated the Hawks 85-37 and Stevens defeated the Hawks 101-21. On the women’s side, NYU defeated New Paltz 95-27 and Stevens defeated New Paltz 77-45.

The relay team of Jesse Sweeney, Steve Cozzolongo, Keith MacDonald and Billy Papetti finished second with a time of 1:41.59 in the 200 yard medley relay. Cozzolongo finished second in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 54.61 and finished second in the 100 yard butterfly with a time of 54.21. Rob Webb finished fourth in the 200 yard breaststroke with a time of 2:24.18.

For the women’s team, Yuka Suzuka gave the Hawks a second place finish in the 100 yard backstroke and second in the 200 yard backstroke with times of 1:01.55 and 2:15.98. The relay team of Suzuka, Becky Baker, Kate Genovese and Allison Wells finished second with a time of 1:52.98 in the 200 yard medley relay. Baker also had a second place finish in the 100 yard breaststroke with a time of 1:10.51 and a third place finish in the 200 yard breaststroke with a time of 2:38.02. Marissa Morris took third in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 55.89 and Jessica Lester finished third in the 200 yard backstroke with a time of 2:16.56.

http://athletics.newpaltz.edu/swimming/statistics/Swimming%20at%20NYU%20%28with%20Stevens%20IT%29%20%2810-24-09%29.pdf

Upcoming Schedule:

10/31   @ Union College Relays    (Troy, NY) 1:00

11/06   @ SUNY Oneonta       (Oneonta, NY)  4:00

11/07    vs. Coast Guard (New Paltz, NY) 1:00

11/14 vs. Rowan University (New Paltz, NY)1:00

Captain and lone senior Rebecca Kafko steps on the field for the last time after four years of dedication and leadership.

She exemplifies a consistent model of what it means to be a hard worker; always giving 110% in every game, practice and run.

Rebecca AKA Bex, has played an important role in the organization and discipline of the team this year, but most importantly she was our eldest sister and will be greatly missed.

We will all miss you Bex!

xoxo – women’s soccer

Bex

This Week:

SUNY New Paltz Hawks vs The Violets of New York University and the Ducks of Stevens Institute of Technology—Saturday 10/24/09 @ 1:00pm.

In the season opener, New Paltz and Stevens Tech will travel south to the Natatorium at NYU. These events will be contested:

200 Medley Relay

1000 Free

200   Free

100   Back

100   Breast

200   Fly

50     Free

–Break–

100   Free

200   Back

200   Breast

500   Free

100   Fly

–Break–

200   IM

400   Free Relay

Scouting the Violets:

Several members of the New York University Men’s  and Women’s Swimming team competed at the NCAA Division III Championships from Wednesday, March 18, through Saturday, March 21, in Minneapolis.

Senior tri-captains Andrew Lardiere (50 and 100 Free and 100 Fly), Paul Hogan (500 and 1650 Free) and Eric Wang (400IM and 200 Fly), as well as junior Eric Pcholinski (100 Free), represented the Violets in the competition.  The Violets totaled 37 points at the meet and finished 24th in the nation.

As for the Lady Violets, A trio of swimmers: junior Patricia Beck (200IM and 200 Back), sophomore Chelsea Pfohl (100 Fly and 100Back) and freshman Molly Rippe (500 and 1650 Freestyles), as well as senior diver Melanie Peters (1-Meter and 3-Meter diving), all represented the Violets at the competition.

This meet will also mark the 2009-2010 season opener for the Violets.

Scouting the Ducks:

The Stevens Institute of Technology swimming program closed out their  2009 season at the Division III NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. The women’s team sent seven swimmers and the men’s team sent sophomore Evan Wilson.

The Women’s team finished with 100.5 points, good for 11th overall and was the top finisher in the Empire 8. Barito was a two-time All-American as Hatfield, Grunewald, and Woo earned the distinction once each. The team also took home 13 honorable mention All-America accolades.

Evan Wilson earned a 20th-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle on the first day of competition and came back to take seventh in the 400-yard individual medley on the second day. That seventh made him the first All-American in the history of the program, and his 3:58.87 broke his own school-record. Wilson closed out competition by taking 20th in the 1650-yard freestyle.

The Ducks opened their 2009-2010 season last weekend against Montclair State. Freshmen Alex Benham and John Hu each set pool records in their first-ever collegiate meet. Hu touched in with a record time of 1:59.40 in the 200-yard backstroke, while Benham set a new pool record in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:39.44. Freshman Marissa Douglas set a new pool record in her first collegiate meet, posting a time of 2:16.31 in the 200-yard backstroke.

The link to the Ducks vs Montclair State meet : http://www.stevensducks.com/assets/sports/mswimming/Montclair.htm

Scouting the Hawks:

Juniors Marissa Morris and Christine Reith competed at the 2009 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships.  Morris competed in the 200 Back and 200 and 500 Freestyle events.  Reith swam the 50, 100, and 200 Freestyles.

On the year, the women set nine varsity records and won three individual SUNYAC titles, setting new conference and meet records in the two events. Junior Jessica Lester (Long Beach, NY/Long Beach) won the 1650 freestyle in a time of 17:36.70, an NCAA provisional cut. Her win broke a 25-year old varsity record and a 14-year old conference record and her split at the 1000 free mark (10:40.38) made the record chart. Reith teamed with Morris, Lester and Allison Wells to set a varsity record in the 800 free-relay (7:49.78) and in the 400 free relay (3:32.91). The 400 medley relay of Rieth, Morris, Ellis and Becky Baker took second in record time of 3:58.63.

In 2008-09, the men’s swim team re-wrote the record board with six new varsity records and one SUNYAC meet and conference record. Stephen Cozzolongo lead the team in record fashion as he won the 100 backstroke (52.67) in a new varsity, conference and meet record time and scored an NCAA provisional cut. He also won the 100 fly (51.74) in varsity record time. The team of Cozzolongo, Rob Webb, Dave Gardner and Billy Papetti in the 200 medley relay broke a seven-year record in 1:36.23.  First year Jesse Sweeney posted a second place finish in the 200-backstroke in 1:55.62 breaking a 13-year old varsity record.

This meet will be the 2009-2010 season opener for the Hawks.

New Coaches:

This meet will be the first for new assistant coaches Kevin Milkovich and Kristy O’Brien.  Milkovich joins New Paltz from Hartwick College, where he graduated in 2009 with a degree in sociology and certification in elementary education.  He was named Hartwick’s MVP of the swimming program 3x in his 4 year career and won the departments prestigious Harry Mosher Memorial Award for selfless devotion to his program.  O’Brien joins New Paltz from SUNY Oneonta.  Also a 2009 grad, she majored in Psychology.  She was a SUNYAC points scorer for the Oneonta Red Dragons in both the 400 IM and 200 Back last year.

Upcoming  Schedule:

10/31 @ Union College Relays (Troy, NY) 1:00

11/6 @ SUNY Oneonta (Oneonta, NY) 4:00

11/7 vs. US Coast Guard Academy (New Paltz, NY) 1:00

Joe Gentsch crushed Phil Goodwins 8 year old 8k New Paltz school record today at the Albany Invitational with a time of 25:29 seconds.  This bested Phils time of 26:15 by 46 seconds.  Joe’s average pace per mile was 5:08.

Danielle Harmon obliterated Janet Walsh’s five year old 5k record of 19:36 in a time of 19:05.  This eclipsed the old record by 31 seconds.  Danielles average pace per mile was 6:08

Lisa Cassaro also bested Walsh’s mark with a PR of 19:19, moving into second place in the ToP Ten All Time list for 5K Cross Country.  Lisa averaged 6:13 per mile.

A tradition of the young season, the 35th annual New Paltz Alumni Meet went off with great success.

Welcome back alums!

Over 60 alumni returned to to the Elting Pool to participate in competition and meet with old friends.  Among the crowd were:  Hall of Fame Coach Art Stockin; 1972 alum Thomas Tyrol; 1984 record holders Paul Strothenke, Paul Robbins, Mark Schoenherr, and Brian Hanratty; Hall of fame alumni Louis Petto; former diving coach Robyn Gullickson; Varsity record holders Kent Yeung, Jon Amoia, Liz Delia, Joanna Masterson, Danielle Lindner, and many more.

Along with the hoopla that surrounded the return of the alumni were some great early season swims.  Sprinters Billy Papetti and Corey Lomas had eye-opening perfromances in the 50, Steve Cozzolongo had a great 100 IM, and Pete Nastasi put in a strong runner-up performance in the 200 Free.  Marissa Morris had a great 50 split in the relay, and the NP women discovered its gem of the freshmen women’s class.

Our first meet of the season is October 24th as the Hawks travel to NYU for a double-dual along with Stevens Tech.

The 1984 relay record discusses strategy for the days race

Coach Whitbeck giving advice to Coach Ellis and co.

Tomorrow night, October 14, NPVB will honor 5 wonderful seniors- Stephanie Bova, Brittany Coyle, Ali Kiernan, Kelcey Noble, and Priska Wilson- at their final regular season home match at 7:00pm.  We will also be hosting a Dig Pink event, which is an event to raise awareness and money for Breast Cancer research.  Fans will be able to donate to this important cause during the match.  All donations will go directly to the Side-Out Foundation.

Bova, Britt, Ali, Kelcey, & Priska have had outstanding careers at New Paltz and are a big reason for the success of NPVB.  We appreciate all they do and all they bring to our team.  We hope to honor them with a win tomorrow, and more home matches to play in during the post-season!