2025-26 Winter Sports Year-End Update and Spring Sports Wrap-Up

6/5/2026 1:00:00 PM

Played tough schedule, finishing with top-15 strength of schedule
Set new single-season scoring average record, recording 82.3 points per game
Also established new single-season record for fewest turnovers per game

Individual Highlights

UAA Rookie of the Year – Jordan Owusu '29
Second Team All-UAA – Tomiwa Adetosoye '26, Corvin Oprea '26
NABC Second Team All-District – Adetosoye
D3hoops.com Third Team All-Region III – Oprea
USBWA All-Rochester Area – Adetosoye, Oprea, Owusu
Oprea scored 40 points on Senior Day, becoming just the sixth player in team history to hit that milestone
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District – Oprea
UAA All-Academic – Nate Beitel '26, Savvas Gonatas '28, Paul McGillion '28, Oprea

Women's Basketball (11-14, 4-10 UAA)
Team Highlights

Earned Head Coach Jim Scheible his 600th career win in a thrilling last-minute comeback against Brandeis
Faced nine total top-25 opponents and ended the season with the #14 toughest schedule in NCAA Division III

Individual Highlights

Honorable Mention All-UAA – Grace Corelli '28, Franki Gomez '25
USBWA All-Rochester Area – Corelli
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District – Deniz Alparslan '28, Bridget Miller '26, Tia Poulakidas '27
UAA All-Academic – D. Alparslan, Melis Alparslan '28, Allison Dauer '28, Peyton Jones '27, Miller, Poulakidas

Squash (6-8, 2-0 Liberty League)
Team Highlights

The Yellowjackets won their seventh straight Liberty League title with back-to-back wins over Haverford and St. Lawrence in February
URochester competed in the Hoehn Cup (B Division) at the CSA Team Championships, ranking in the top-20 for the 19th year in a row
The team had nine Athlete or Rookie of the Week awards from the Liberty League
Rochester's coaches were named Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year

Individual Highlights

Liberty League Rookie of the Year – Gilberto Aceves Moreno '29
First Team All-Liberty League – Aceves Moreno, Dhirren Rajarathinam '27, Thomas Valderrama '28
Second Team All-Liberty League – Karim Moataz '28
Honorable Mention All-Liberty League – Arjith Mathew '29
Both Aceves Moreno and Rajarathinam represented the Yellowjackets at the CSA Individual Championship in New York City
Liberty League All-Academic – Sam Knoll '25, Van Inman-Benavente '27, Moataz, Rajarathinam, Preston Wu '28

Men's Swimming & Diving (3-5)
Team Highlights

URochester claimed seventh place at the UAA Championships
A total of 13 individuals set new all-time top-10 marks in the program record book, with many earning multiple spots on the list
The Yellowjackets were honored as a Scholar All-America Team by the CSCAA for the 20th time overall, ranking with the eighth-best GPA in Division III

Individual Highlights

New school records were set by Max McClung '26 in the 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly, along with Ben Friedberg '26 in the 50 freestyle
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District – Nate Attwell '27, Connor Kann '28, Max Wozinski '27
UAA All-Academic – Attwell, Brendan Habert '26, Demo Hong '28, Kann, Wozinski
Lysle 'Spike' Garnish Scholar-Athlete – McClung
Provost Circle Scholar – Attwell
UR Athletics Louis Alexander Alumni Award – McClung

Women's Swimming & Diving (9-0)
Team Highlights

Finished undefeated in dual meets for the first time in 50 years, going 9-0
Placed seventh at the UAA Championships
The Yellowjackets received the CSCAA Scholar All-America Team award for the 22nd time in a row
21 swimmers, divers or relays set new all-time top-10 marks in the URochester record book this season

Individual Highlights

Kaela Springer '28 earned CSCAA Second Team All-America honors after placing 14th on the 3-meter diving board at the NCAA Division III Championships
Springer also captured URochester's first-ever NCAA Regional Diving victory, placing first on the 3-meter board. She was also seventh on the 1-meter board at regionals and teammate Julia Sides '27, was ninth and 12th in the 3-meter and 1-meter events, respectively
Four new school records were set this season, including the 1-meter dive by Springer, the 200 breaststroke by Ariana Pasquella '26, the 400 IM by Amelia Hardiman '28 and the 800 freestyle relay which included Hardiman, Adele Hellstrom '27, Morgan Edstrom '26 and Julianne Weaver '29
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District – Sophia Dmytruk '27, Edstrom, Hardiman, Sides
UAA All-Academic – Rachele Bachmann '27, Caelan Clayton '26, Olivia Dewar '28, Dmytruk, Edstrom, Hardiman, Paige Lovelace '26, Katelyn Packer '28, Isabel Phillips '28, Talia Proweller '26, Rachel Ruminer '28, Sides, Izzy Stevenson '26, Marlena Vieira '26
Phi Beta Kappa – Lovelace, Stevenson
O'Brien Book Award – Hardiman

Men's Indoor Track & Field
Team Highlights

The Yellowjackets placed second at the Liberty League Indoor Championships at RIT
URochester secured a top-10 team finish at the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Championships (AARTFC) in New York City
As a team, UR earned 16 All-Region honors from the USTFCCCA during the 2025-26 indoor season
20 All-Conference awards were earned by the Yellowjackets from the Liberty League

Individual Highlights

Emmett Hansen '28 earned Second Team All-America honors following a 16th place finish in the heptathlon at the NCAA Division III Championships. He also was selected as Liberty League Indoor Field Athlete of the Year
Barack Abdallah '29 was voted as Liberty League Men's Indoor Rookie of the Year this season
Liberty League event champions were Ethan Beer '27 (shot put), Armaan Butler '27 (weight throw), Hansen (heptathlon) and Aadit Jain '26 (long jump)
Three school records were set during the season, by Abdallah (60 meters), Beer (shot put) and Elijah VanHoover '27 (60 meter hurdles)

Women's Indoor Track & Field
Team Highlights

UR earned second place as a team at the Liberty League Championships at RIT
In New York City, the Yellowjackets were third among 53 scoring teams at the All-Atlantic Region Indoor Track & Field Championships
22 All-Liberty League awards were earned following the conference championship results
Ten individuals combined to earn 19 All-Region honors from the USTFCCCA

Individual Highlights

Nora Chen '27, Eva Ciuffetelli '27 and Lauren Murphy '29 combined to earn five All-America awards following competition at the NCAA Division III Championships. Chen was First Team in the 400 meters and Second Team in the 60 meter hurdles, Murphy was First Team in the triple jump and Second Team in the long jump and Ciuffetelli earned First Team honors in the 800 meters.
Murphy was named Rookie of the Year in the Liberty League following the season, and earned Field Performer of the Meet honors at the Conference Championships
At the AARTFC meet, Molly FitzGibbons '26 (M) secured a win in the mile, while Ciuffetelli claimed a victory in the 800 meters
Four new school records fell during the season, earned by Chen (60 meter hurdles), Murphy (long jump & triple jump) and Aimee Oszer '27 (shot put)

2026 Spring Season Update

Baseball (14-21, 7-13 Liberty League)
Team Highlights

7-3 southern trip record in Florida
Will return entire team for the 2026-27 season

Individual Highlights

Third Team All-Liberty League – Benjamin Garber '28
Walk-off wins provided by Teddy Monahan '29 against Union and Grady Davis '29 versus league champ RIT
Liberty League Players of the Week – James Nelson '29, Carlos Barajas '29 (Rookie)
Nathan Carpenter-Holmes '27 was named a Provost Circle Scholar
Sophomores Sunil Lindsay '28 and Brendan Ryan '28 received the O'Brien Book Award from the University.
Liberty League All-Academic – Ryan Arora '28, Sammy Besztery '27, Luke Blozy '27, Carpenter-Holmes, Randy Davis '28, Lindsay, Derek Llanes '28, Ryan

Golf
Team Highlights

Finished tied for 18th at NCAA Division III Championship
Won Liberty League title for third consecutive year, shooting a program record 273 (15-under par) on final day to comeback for the win
Tied for 1st at Fred Kravetz Invitational at Oak Hill C.C. (6-team field), tying the tournament scoring record
Finished the season ranked #18 nationally, and #1 in the region
URochester was named Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year and Dan Wesley '94 was selected as Region II Coach of the Year

Individual Highlights

GCAA All-Region II – Arjun Aujla '27, Alvin Su '28, Anderson Palm '29, Galen Fowles '28, Josh Pethel '26
Liberty League Player of the Year – Su
First Team All-UAA – Su
First Team All-Liberty League – Su, Palm
Second Team All-Liberty League – Aujla, Fowles
Su finished 6th individually at the Jekyll Island Invitational, shooting 69-67-70 (10-under par)
Aujla tied the then program 18-hole scoring record with a 66 at Oak Hill West (5-under par) at the Kravetz Invitational, with Su winning the individual title, shooting 70-69 (3-under par overall)
Galen Fowles set a new URochester 18-hole scoring record, shooting a 65 (7-under par) at Shenandoah G.C. in the final round of the Liberty League Championship
Alvin Su won medalist honors at the Liberty League Championship, shooting rounds of 71-70-67 (8-under par)
Liberty League All-Academic – Fowles, Marshall Kim '26, Pethel, Su

Lacrosse (12-6, 7-3 Liberty League)
Team Highlights

12 wins are second-most in program history
UR hosted and won a Liberty League playoff game for the first time, defeating St. Lawrence 8-7
Defeated 11th-ranked St. John Fisher in the home-opener back in February
Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year
Five players earned Liberty League weekly honors during the season

Individual Highlights

IWLCA All-Empire Region First Team – Alyssa Gorny '26
IWLCA All-Empire Region Second Team – Jenna Ufberg '27
Liberty League Attacker of the Year – Gorny
First Team All-Liberty League – Gorny, Ufberg
Third Team All-Liberty League – Anna Rogers '27, Maddie Bunting '27, Isla Ablin '28
Gorny set the all-time career points, goals and draw controls records, also establishing new single-season marks for points and goals
Ufberg set a single-season caused turnovers record
Rogers hit the 100 career-goal mark while Ablin reached 300 career saves
Gorny received national honors, being named Division III Offensive Player of the Week
Liberty League All-Academic – Ablin, Kassi Boehl '26, Bunting, Kiera Delaney '26, Heidi Donovan '26, Talia Feldman '27, Gorny, Jenna Kessler 28, Lorelei King '26, Ella Lassen '28, Morgan Napolitano '26, Rogers, Ufberg, Allison Weiden '28, Kaitlyn Wilkowski '28
Phi Beta Kappa – Gorny, Napolitano
UR Athletics Merle Spurrier Award – Gorny

Rowing
Team Highlights

URochester's varsity 8 boat captured third place at the Liberty League Championships, while the 2nd varsity 8 was runner-up
The Yellowjackets varsity 8 won the petite final at the New York State Championships
UR earned the third level final at the NIRC Championships in the varsity 8 event.
The team was ranked all spring season long, reaching as high as #12 in Division III

Individual Highlights

First Team All-Liberty League – Jinx Allison '26
Second Team All-Liberty League – Ava Prevey-Sullivan '26
First-year's Katelyn Wilmarth '29, Erin Seitzer '29, Quinn Seawright '29, and Sophia Fietkiewicz '29 along with coxswain Asha Limaye '29 won the quad sculls at states
Liberty League All-Academic – Charlotte Berman '28, Sabrina Butori Valdivia '28, Elizabeth Carleton '26, Natalie Dundas '28, Hayes Keith '27, Kennedy Leininger '26, Stella Lempert '26, Prevey-Sullivan, Rachel Ruminer '28, Lubna Shah '28
Leininger was elected Phi Beta Kappa

Softball (36-10, 13-1 Liberty League)
Team Highlights

Captured Liberty League title with sweep of Ithaca on the final day, hosting the tournament at Southside Field
Made 12th appearance in NCAA Division III Tournament, going 1-2 at Angola Regional
Had 17-game winning streak during the season
Set nine new team records offensively, including batting average, runs, hits and home runs
Liberty League and NFCA Region III Coaching Staff of the Year

Individual Highlights

NFCA Division III Player of the Year, First Team All-American – Riley Laygo '27
NFCA All-Region III First Team – Molly Broccolo '26, Laygo, Jensen Sminchak '26
NFCA All-Region III Second Team – Rowan Mulholland '26
NFCA All-Region III Third Team – Marie Kinchington '26
Liberty League Player of the Year – Laygo
Liberty League Pitcher of the Year – Broccolo
First Team All-Liberty League – Broccolo, Kinchington, Laygo, Mulholland, Sminchak
Second Team All-Liberty League – Ally Kim '27, Katelyn Wade '27
Honorable Mention All-Liberty League – Savanna Hernandez '29, Maddie White '26
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District – Julianna Lyons '27, Mulholland, Sminchak, Ilana Weiss '26, White
Liberty League All-Academic – Quin Caretti '28, Kinchington, Lyons, Mulholland, Madi Paige '28, Maithili Shah '27, Sminchak, Wade, Weiss, White
Lysle 'Spike' Garnish Scholar-Athlete – White

Men's Tennis (6-13, 0-3 UAA)
Team Highlights

URochester earned a NCAA Region II team end-of-season ranking of #7
The 'Jackets defeated #33 ranked Rensselaer 5-2 at home on March 29
Other regional wins came against Hobart, St. Lawrence, RIT and Nazareth
UR competed against eight nationally ranked Division III opponents this spring

Individual Highlights

Second Team All-UAA (1st Singles) – Andy Liu '28
Honorable Mention All-UAA (2nd Singles) – Alan Wang '28
Liu earned a season-high NCAA Region II singles ranking of #6. He defeated #1 singles opponents from NYU, Hobart, Ithaca and St. Lawrence
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District – Surya Rajamani '26, Ethan Samora '27, Alan Wang '28
UAA All-Academic – Rajamani, Rahul Ravi '26, Samora, Kavin Shukla '26, Wang, Joseph Xia '28
Phi Beta Kappa and Provost Circle Scholar - Samora

Women's Tennis (8-12, 0-3 UAA)
Team Highlights

URochester earned a NCAA Division III Region II team ranking of #7
The Jackets' defeated Northeast region opponents RIT, Ithaca, William Smith, Geneseo and Nazareth
On the spring break trip to Hilton Head, SC, the team defeated West Liberty and Hardin-Simmons
The team competed against eight nationally-ranked Division III opponents this spring

Individual Highlights

Honorable Mention All-UAA – Sanjana Karnam '26 (1st Doubles), Jasmin Toor '26 (1st Doubles), Katie Yang (1st Singles)
Team captain Toor compiled an impressive 11-5 regular season dual match W-L doubles record. She was 8-5 with partner Karnam and 3-0 with Lauren Kallas '27 on the spring break trip.
Hailey Kornbluth '29 defeated Brandeis at #2 singles and Neha Dania '26 won at #6 singles at the UAA Championship. Dania defeated the same Brandeis opponent at #6 singles during the regular season.
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District – Lilly Caldwell '28, Toor
UAA All-Academic – Maya Bravo '28, Caldwell, Toor

Men's Outdoor Track & Field
Team Highlights

URochester's men earned a runner-up team finish at the 2026 Liberty League Outdoor Championships
The Yellowjackets finished fifth as a team at the All-Atlantic Region Championships in Collegeville, PA
Compiled a team GPA of 3.44 during the Spring 2026 semester, earning USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors
12 athletes combined for 16 All-Region honors from the USTFCCCA during the 2026 outdoor season

Individual Highlights

Emmett Hansen '28 was named Liberty League Co-Field Athlete of the Year after earning Second Team All-America honors in the decathlon at the NCAA Division III Championships, just one week after winning the decathlon at the AARTFC Championships (6,596 points)
Barack Abdallah '29 was named Liberty League Rookie of the Year after setting a new 100 meter school record (10.73 seconds) and finishing top-8 in three sprint events at the Liberty League Championships
Aadit Jain '26 won the Liberty League high jump title with a clearance of 1.96 meters (6' 5")
Ethan Beer '27 won a Liberty League title in the shot put, and also set a new school record with a toss of 15.75 meters (51' 8.25") at the AARTFC Championships
Ashton Tokarski '27 won his first career Liberty League title in the decathlon, scoring 6,069 points
The team of Abdallah, Jain, Evan Bryant '27 and William Stiska '28 established a new 4x100m relay school record of 41.84 seconds at the AARTFC Championships.
Liberty League All-Academic – Jacob Bernd '28, Bryant, James Catania '25, Diego De Los Santos '27, William Eskenas '27, Tate Finger '27, Jain, Jack Maness '26, Brendan McCollum '26, Reward Mulauzi '27, Greg Palma '28, Cody Reeth '26, Jesse Rinzel '27, Liam Sakakeeny '28, Quillan Shimp '27, Gus Smith '27, Stiska, Tokarski
Lysle 'Spike' Garnish Scholar-Athlete – Jain
Provost Circle Scholar – Finger, Smith

Women's Outdoor Track & Field
Team Highlights

URochester's women's team won the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Championship (AARTFC) team title for the first time in program history, scoring 70 points to top the field of 65 teams that scored in the meet
The Yellowjackets earned a runner-up team finish at the Liberty League Outdoor Track & Field Championships
UR finished 32nd as a team at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships at UW-La Crosse
The Yellowjacket women compiled a team GPA of 3.54 during the Spring 2026 semester, earning USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors
Sam Albert '01, '02 (M) was named the Niagara Region Women's Coach of the Year, and Jay Petsch was named Niagara Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year.

Individual Highlights

Nora Chen '27 and Lauren Murphy '29 were named Niagara Region Outdoor Track and Field Athletes of the Year, respectively.
Murphy was named Liberty League Women's Field Athlete of the Year and Rookie of the Year, after she swept the long and triple Jump at the Liberty League Championships and earned First Team All-America honors with her third place NCAA finish in the triple jump
Chen earned First Team All-America honors in the 400 meter hurdles with a seventh place finish at NCAA's. Chen also captured Liberty League titles in the 400 meter hurdles and 400 meters, and the AARTFC title in the 400 meter hurdles
Graduate student Molly FitzGibbons '26 (M) won the Liberty League title in the 3000 meter steeplechase and earned Second Team All-America honors with a ninth place finish at the NCAA Championships
Aimee Oszer '27 earned Second Team All-America honors in the discus after finishing 12th at the NCAA Championships. She also won Liberty League titles in the shot put and discus, and was named the Women's Field Performer of the Meet at the Liberty League Outdoor Championships
The 4x400 relay team of Chen, Eva Ciuffetelli '27, Raquella Casserino '27, and Lizzie Merrill '28 qualified to the NCAA Championships and finished 14th in the nation. This marked the sixth consecutive year that the Yellowjackets have qualified to the NCAA Championships in the 4x400 relay
Five new school records were established during the 2026 outdoor season – Chen (400 meter hurdles), FitzGibbons (3000 meter steeplechase), Murphy (triple jump), Oszer (shot put, discus).
UR Athletics Sylvia Fabricant Award – Chen
UR Athletics Terrence L. Gurnett Female Scholar-Athlete Award – Alyssa Horng '26
Liberty League All-Academic – Toni Adewakun '27, Katie Atkins '28, Ashleigh Barrett '26, Ella Blau '27, Casserino, Chen, Talia Christopher '28, Ciuffetelli, Emily Dill '27, Isabella Doty '26, Nora Dreslin '26, Julie Durham '28, FitzGibbons, Raelen Green '28, Horng, Riley Joseph '26, Maria Khalifeh '28, Julia Lantner '26, Julia Largett '26, Grace McInerney '28, Zoe Noble '26, Adriana Ochoa '28, Cassidy Romano '27, Rita Sciortino '26, Madison Vargas '27, Ariane Yedidia '28
Phi Beta Kappa – Horng, Noble
Provost Circle Scholar – Chen, Dill