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Winter Sports
Basketball | Hockey | Squash | Swimming | Track and Field | Honors & Accolades
Connecticut College sports teams enjoyed their share of success in the winter sports season.
Basketball
The Connecticut College basketball teams combined to win 29 games, the highest total in recent history.
Hockey
Squash
Swimming
The Connecticut College swimming programs continue to carry the torch when it comes to scoring at national championships. The Camel men placed third at the NESCAC Championship for the fourth consecutive year. Nine Camels were honored on the All-NESCAC Team and Marc Benvenuti was honored as the Coach of the Year.
Track and Field
The men’s and women’s track and field teams equaled a program record with its highest number of national qualifiers (five) at this winter’s NCAA Indoor Championship. The men's distance medley relay team comprised of senior Niall Williams of Scotia, N.Y, sophomores Christian Whitaker of Dolton, Ill. and Connor Trapp of Wilmette, Ill. along with junior Ben Bosworth of Dorchester, Mass. placed ninth at the NCAA Championship. The Camels posted a time of 10:07.25. They finished just .01 seconds behind eighth place finishing Middlebury College. The top eight finishers were honored as All-Americans. This talented foursome posted the fastest time in the country on a banked track at Boston University in February, setting a school record with a time of 9:55.
2015-16 Winter Major Conference Honors & Accolades
Tyler Rowe (Men’s Basketball, Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd, January 25, 2016)
Mairead Hynes (Women’s Basketball, All-NESCAC Second Team)
Tim DiPretoro (Men’s Hockey, All-NESCAC First Team)
Tim DiPretoro (Men’s Hockey, New England Hockey Writers All-Star)
Jordan Cross (Women’s Hockey, NESCAC ROTY)
Katherine Chester (Women’s Hockey, All-NESCAC First Team)
Julie Beattie (Women’s Hockey, All-NESCAC First Team)
Julie Beattie (Women’s Hockey, New England Hockey Writers All-Star)
Niall Williams (Men’s Track, USTFCCCA All-Region, DMR)
Christian Whitaker (Men’s Track, USTFCCCA All-Region, DMR)
Ben Bosworth (Men’s Track, USTFCCCA All-Region, DMR)
Connor Trapp (Men’s Track, USTFCCCA All-Region, DMR)
Bella Franz (Women’s Track, USTFCCCA All-Region, 800 Meters, One-Mile Run)
Bella Franz (Women’s Track, NCAA Qualifier 800 Meters, 12th Place)
Williams, Whitaker, Trapp, Bosworth (Men’s Track, NCAA Qualifiers DMR, 9th Place)
Marc Benvenuti (Men’s Swimming, COTY)
All of the following are All-NESCAC Swims:
Niko Brosnihan | 200-yard Freestyle Relay 400-yard Freestyle Relay |
Michael Fothergill | 50-yard Backstroke 50-yard Freestyle 200-yard Freestyle Relay 400-yard Freestyle Relay 400-yard Medley Relay |
Drake Freiberg | 200-yard Freestyle Relay |
Trebor Lawton | 400-yard Medley Relay |
AJ Pite | 400-yard Individual Medley (Champion) 500-yard Freestyle |
Joel Sibley | 400-yard Medley Relay |
Stephen Skaperdas | 500-yard Freestyle 1,000-yard Freestyle 1,650-yard Freestyle |
Dylan Steiner | 200-yard Freestyle Relay 400-yard Freestyle Relay |
George Tilneac | 100-yard Butterfly 100-yard Freestyle 200-yard Butterfly 200-yard Individual Medley 400-yard Freestyle Relay 400-yard Medley Relay |
Mike Fothergill (Men’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 100 Yard Back)
AJ Pite (Men’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 400 Yard IM)
George Tilneac (Men’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 200 Yard Fly)
Mike Fothergill (Men’s Swimming, NCAA All-American, 100 Yard Backstroke, Fifth Place)
George Tilneac (Men’s Swimming, NCAA All-American, 200 Yard Butterfly, Fifth Place)
AJ Pite (Men’s Swimming, NCAA All-American, 400 Yard IM, Sixth Place)
George Tilneac (Men’s Swimming, NCAA HM All-American, 100 Yard Butterfly, 11th Place)
AJ Pite (Men’s Swimming, NCAA HM All-American, 500 Yard Freestyle, 12th Place)
All of the following are All-NESCAC Swims:
Shannon Cry | 200-yard Freestyle Relay |
Olivia Haskell | 200-yard Freestyle Relay 800-yard Freestyle Relay |
Juliette Lee | 200-yard Freestyle Relay |
Sam Pierce | 100-yard Freestyle 200-yard Freestyle 200-yard Individual Medley 200-yard Freestyle Relay 800-yard Freestyle Relay |
Emma Rotner | 800-yard Freestyle Relay |
Valerie Urban | 1,000-yard Freestyle 1,650-yard Freestyle 800-yard Freestyle Relay |
Sam Pierce (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 100 & 200 Yard Free, 200 Yard IM, 800 Free Relay)
Valerie Urban (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 1650 Yard Free, 800 Yard Free Relay)
Emma Rotner (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 800 Yard Free Relay)
Olivia Haskell (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 800 Yard Free Relay)
Charlotte Nixon (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 200 Yard Free Relay)
Shannon Cry (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Qualifier, 200 Yard Free Relay)
Sam Pierce (Women’s Swimming, NCAA All-American, 200 Yard Free, Fifth Place)
Sam Pierce (Women’s Swimming, NCAA All-American, 200 Yard IM, Fourth Place)
Sam Pierce (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Honorable Mention All-American, 100 Yard Free, 13th Place)
Valerie Urban (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Honorable Mention All-American, 1650 Yard Free, 16th Place
Valerie Urban (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Honorable Mention All-American, 200 Yard Butterfly,11th Place
Haskell, Nixon, Cry Pierce (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Honorable Mention All-American, 400 Yard Free Relay 13th Place)
Haskell, Rotner, Pierce, Urban (Women’s Swimming, NCAA All-American, 800 Yard Free Relay, Eighth Place)
Haskell, Cry, Nixon, Pierce (Women’s Swimming, NCAA Honorable Mention All-American, 200 Yard Free Relay, 15th Place).
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