Eight Maroons Pull in Athlete of the Week Honors

CHICAGO – College of Chicago obtained eight complete Athlete of the Week awards from the College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) on Monday.

Lyndon Hu garnered Offensive Athlete of the Week in males’s soccer. The Maroon sophomore scored the deciding purpose that despatched UChicago to the NCAA Last 4 on Sunday. His penalty kick within the first half offered the profitable margin in a 1-0 victory over Gustavus Adolphus Faculty. The day past, he tallied an help in a 4-1 win over College of St. Thomas (Texas) within the NCAA Spherical of 16. To date this season, the Maroon midfielder ranks second on the crew with six targets and eight assists.

Griffin Wada was picked because the UAA’s Defensive Athlete of the Week for the second time this month. The senior heart again anchored the Maroon protection in a pair of NCAA postseason wins over St. Thomas (4-1) and Gustavus Adolphus (1-0). UChicago solely allowed one shot on purpose within the remaining 135 minutes of these contests because the squad superior to the NCAA Last 4 for the second-straight season.

The UAA Girls’s Basketball Athlete of the Week went to Grace Hynes. The senior guard averaged 24.0 factors, 6.5 rebounds and three.0 assists per sport in UChicago’s wins over North Park College and Colorado Faculty. Hynes shot over 50 % from the sphere on the weekend and tallied a career-high 32 factors versus Colorado Faculty. The Maroons received their two video games by a mean of 17 factors.

Cole Fibranz‘s standout efficiency on the Concordia College (Wis.) Open earned him Wrestling Athlete of the Week standing. The senior blazed by his opening 4 matches within the 285-pound draw with three pins and a technical fall. He ended up taking second place with a 4-1 file. Fibranz now owns a 13-4 file on the season.

Spencer Dearman and Cynthia Tang swept the Males’s and Girls’s Diving Athlete of the Week accolades. On the Phoenix Fall Basic, Dearman received the boys’s three-meter dive (530.65 factors) and took runner-up within the one-meter dive (484.55 factors). Tang was victorious within the girls’s one-meter dive (476.50 factors) and positioned second within the three-meter dive (471.25 factors).

Jesse Ssengonzi claimed Athlete of the Week in males’s swimming for the second time in three weeks. The junior posted 4 occasions that rank within the prime two nationally through the three-day Phoenix Fall Basic. Ssengonzi put up a college file and pool file time within the 200-yard butterfly, profitable in 1:45.85. That point leads the nation by 2.4 seconds. He swam on the 400-yard medley relay as properly, which leads the nation with a time of three:14.42. Ssengonzi additionally was a key member of the 400-yard freestyle relay (pool file 2:58.29) and 200-yard medley relay (1:29.38), with each occasions rating second-best in NCAA Division III. Within the 100-yard butterfly, he went 47.71 within the prelims to set a brand new pool file within the occasion, which at present ranks fourth nationally.

Annabel Olivo was equally dominant on the Phoenix Fall Basic as she seized the UAA’s weekly award in girls’s swimming. The Maroon rookie received the 100-yard freestyle with a school-record time of fifty.29 that ranks second-best within the nation. She additionally submitted the No. 5 time within the 50-yard freestyle (23.58) and the No. 7 time within the 100-yard backstroke (56.10). 4 of Olivo’s relays put up elite occasions as properly. The 800-yard freestyle relay (7:26.25) owns the highest mark in NCAA Division III, 400-yard freestyle relay (3:24.29) ranks second, the 200-yard medley relay (1:43.59) ranks third and the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:34.48) ranks third.