CHICAGO – The College of Chicago obtained 5 Athlete of the Week honors from the College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) on Monday.
Maddie Kelly’s stellar efficiency over the weekend was rewarded with the UAA accolade for ladies’s observe. On the Aurora College Grand Prix, Kelly received the one mile with the quickest time in all of NCAA Division III this season – 4:53.94. That point additionally broke her personal faculty file by greater than a second. Thus far this 12 months, the junior is ranked within the nationwide high 10 in three totally different occasions – first within the one mile, sixth within the 3,000 meters and seventh within the 800 meters.
Susannah Truitt claimed the UAA Ladies’s Discipline Athlete of the Week distinction. The junior pole vaulter topped the competitors on the Aurora Grand Prix with a clearance of three.80 meters. That mark presently ranks third within the nation and second in UChicago’s all-time indoor file e-book.
The UAA’s wrestling award went to heavyweight Cole Fibranz. The Maroon senior went 4-1 to take second place in his weight class at Wheaton School’s Pete Willson Invite. The nation’s oldest and largest small-college event featured 33 groups in attendance. Fibranz pinned two opponents and received a pair of choices 3-2 and 2-1. On the season, he boasts a 24-7 total file.
For the fourth time this season, Veronica Fong garnered UAA Ladies’s Diver of the Week standing. In a twin meet at Calvin College, Fong received the three-meter dive with 317.10 factors and completed second within the one-meter dive with 259.13 factors.
Andrei Leonov earned the convention’s weekly honor in males’s tennis. The No. 1-ranked Maroons kicked off their 2023 marketing campaign with a 5-2 victory over Holy Cross School (Ind.) on Saturday. Leonov picked up wins at No. 1 doubles (6-3) and No. 5 singles (6-3, 6-4).
