CHICAGO – A trio of College of Chicago student-athletes obtained weekly honors from the College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) and the Midwest Convention (MWC) on Monday.
Drew Bryan picked up his second MWC Pitcher of the Week accolade this season. The junior righthander proved untouchable in a 1-0 victory at Lawrence College on Saturday. Bryan tied his season excessive with 15 strikeouts in 7.2 innings pitched, placing out 54 % of the batters he confronted. He solely allowed three hits and one stroll, and his scoreless streak now stands at 17.2 innings. Up to now this yr, Bryan is 6-2 with a 2.63 ERA and 83 strikeouts in 51.1 innings pitched.
Claudia Ng was named the UAA Ladies’s Tennis Athlete of the Week. The senior led the No. 1-ranked Maroons to a pair of 5-0 sweeps within the second and third rounds of the NCAA Division III Championship. Ng went an ideal 4-0 between No. 2 doubles and No. 6 singles. She shut out her Grinnell Faculty opponent 6-0, 6-0 and adopted that up with a 6-1, 6-2 victory in opposition to Carleton Faculty. Ng teamed with Perene Wang to select up doubles wins by scores of 8-3 and 8-4. On the season, the senior boasts a 21-2 singles file and a 25-8 doubles mark.
Maddie Kelly garnered the UAA’s accolade in ladies’s monitor for the second time in 2023. On the Loras Faculty Dr. Tucker Open, Kelly gained the 1,500 meters in a school-record time of 4:27.85. That mark broke the earlier UChicago file by practically three seconds. The junior runner presently ranks within the prime 20 nationally in three totally different occasions – the 1,500 meters (fifth), the 5,000 meters (eighth) and the 800 meters (seventeenth).
