The University of Rochester saw five athletes from spring teams garner weekly awards from the Liberty League, as announced by the conference on Monday.
 
Senior Molly Broccolo and junior Riley Laygo from softball, junior Nora Chen and first-year Lauren Murphy from women's track and field and first-year Brant Nicholls from men's track and field were this weeks honorees.
 
Broccolo was named softball Pitcher of the Week after a solid week for the Yellowjackets in the circle, posting a 2-0 record over three appearances. She had a 0.54 ERA across 13 innings pitched, allowing 6 hits, 4 runs (1 earned) with 7 walks and 13 strikeouts. Opponents hit just .125 during the week against the senior.
 
She tossed a 5-inning, 2-hit shutout with 6 strikeouts on Monday versus SUNY Geneseo and then combined to throw 8 innings in a DH sweep of RIT on Saturday. She earned the win in game one, throwing 5 innings allowing 3 hits, 4 runs (1 earned) with 6 more strikeouts.
 
Laygo secured her second straight softball Performer of the Week honor after her strong performance on the diamond, helping URochester softball go 4-0 during the week. The junior hit .600 (9-for-15) with 8 runs scored, 1 double, 1 triple, 2 home runs and a team-high 8 RBI over the four games. She added two steals, slugged 1.200 and was 30-for-30 on fielding attempts at first base.
 
Laygo had multiple hits and multiple runs scored in every game, adding 4 RBI against Geneseo (game 1) on Monday and 3 RBI against RIT (game 1) on Saturday, crushing home runs in each of those contests.
 
Chen, the Liberty League women's track Performer of the Week, had an outstanding weekend for URochester, competing at the Division I William & Mary Colonial Relays on Friday and Saturday. The junior posted the Division III top-time in the 400 meter hurdles so far this season, running a new UR school record of 1:00.13, placing first among 17 competitors at the DI meet.
 
Chen also ran on the second-place 4x400 meter relay that posted a 3:50.51 time, ranking #5 in Division III this season. Her last effort over the weekend was the 100 meter hurdles, where Chen posted a time of 14.71 seconds in her first collegiate effort in that event. It finished her in fourth place at the meet and ranks top-25 in Division III at this point in 2026. All three times were AARTFC qualifiers.
 
Murphy was selected as the conference's women's Field Performer of the Week following a meet where she posted two top-5 NCAA Division III marks at the William & Mary Colonial Relays over the weekend. The first-year is number two in the triple jump with a 12.12 meter leap and also ranks fifth on the D3 list in the 4x400 meter relay, running on UR's team that posted a time of 3:50.51. Murphy also competed in the 200 meters, running 26.61 seconds.
 
Her triple jump distance set a new school-record and was good enough to win the event at the D1 meet, while the relay time placed URochester as event runner-up, with both of those marks being good enough to qualify for regionals.
 
Nicholls was selected as the Liberty League men's track and field Rookie of the Week. He competed in two events at the William & Mary Colonial Relays over the weekend, helping the Yellowjackets to a top-10 team result at the Division I meet. The rookie finished fifth among 18 athletes in the pole vault competition, clearing 4.62 meters, the current #37 mark on the Division III performance list and AARTFC qualifier. Nicholls also ran the 110 meter hurdles at W&M, ending 12th place with a 16.04 second time.