Lake Zurich’s Hartman’s a hit at Stevens Point
One year after finshing her career setting for Lake Zurich’s volleyball team, Alexis Hartman continued to make her presence felt at the collegiate level.
The Wisconsin-Stevens Point freshman setter was a first team All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection while helping lead the Pointers to their first conference title in 30 years.
She was also a two-time all-tourney selection (UWSP Invitational and UWSP Tournament Point) this season and an honorable mention selection to the All-Midwest Region team.
Hartman played in all 33 matches, appearing in 118 sets. Her 902 assists (7.64 per set) led the Pointers. Hartman added 109 blocks (14 solo, 95 assisted) and had 166 digs on the season.
Ÿ Former Stevenson standout Margaret Salata enjoyed two standout matches for North Carolina State and was named the Atlantic Coast Conference “Volleyball Player of the Week”.
The Wolfpack picked up a pair of ACC victories, ending a 27-match losing streak against Clemson with a 3-2 victory and swept Georgia Tech.
Salata hit .458 in the two matches.
Against Clemson, the senior middle blocker matched her career-high with 19 kills and set a new career mark with 24 total points.
In the sweep of the Yellow Jackets, Salata hit .579 while recording 12 kills and 7 blocks.
The Buffalo Grove native has 145 blocks this season, tied for the fourth most in school history and ranks third in the conference in blocks per set.
NCS is 19-11 and 7-10 in conference play, the most total victories since 1996 and the most ACC wins in program history.
Ÿ Dartmouth senior Amber Bryant (Libertyville, Ill.) was named to the Capital One Academic All-District I Division I team.
She is one of three Ivy Leaguers named to an all-district squad this year.
The libero leads the Big Green in digs this season with 398 and is eighth in the conference in digs per set at 4.47. The co-captain recently set the program’s all-time record for digs and now has 1,522 in her career. She is the only player ever at Dartmouth to eclipse the 1,500 mark.
Bryant also holds the single-season dig’s record (485) and single-match dig’s record (40).
In her career, Bryant has exemplified durability, playing in 356 sets, which is the most by any player on the Dartmouth team.
Ÿ Lewis sophomore libero Amy Choi (Vernon Hills) recorded a career-high 34 digs in the Great Lakes Valley Confernce title match loss to Indianapolis.
Men’s soccer
Concordia-Wisconsin’s Kyle Sytsma (Antioch) was named to the first team of the 2011 Northern Athletics All-Conference team for the second straight season.
The junior center midfielder followed up last season’s 11 goals and 5 assists with 10 goals and 7 assists, leading Concordia to a 13-6-1 record and a second-place finish in the NAC.
He had 3 game-winning goals this year and scored 2 goals in a 3-2 victory over Edgewood.
Sytsma was second in the conference in points (27), fourth in goals (10), fourth in assists (7), second in shot attempts and third in shots on goal.
He is currently a member of the top 12 soccer-athletes all-time in the NAC for points, goals, assists, shot attempts and shots on goal.
Ÿ Carthage senior defender Zak Khoshbin (Lake Zurich) was named the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin “Men’s Soccer Player of the Year” and first-team All-CCIW. A double major in accounting and finance with a 3.504 cumulative grade-point average, Khoshbin has been named to the Carthage dean’s list four times, and he’s a three-semester member of the Carthage athletic director’s honor roll.
Women’s soccer
Kelley Moran (Stevenson) finished her career at Carroll University in an NCAA playoff game against St. Benedict of Minnesota. She scored a goal in the shootout.
Carroll finished with a share of the Midwest Conference title 7-1-1, then went on to win the conference tournament and the automatic bid to the NCAA.
Moran was named a second-team all conference midfielder and was among the top four in the conference for game-winning goals and seventh in assists.
Ÿ Wisconsin-Parkside junior forward Alexandra Hauser (Carmel) helped her team (13-4-2) reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament where it gave a valiant effort before falling to the two-time defending champ Grand Valley State 3-1.
Men’s cross country
Middlebury College (Vermont) freshman Kevin Wood (Stevenson) finished 39th out of 322 runners at the New England regional race in a time of 25:32.96. Middlebury finished second in a field of 48 teams and earned a berth at the NCAA D3 Championships.
College scholarship program
The National Sporting Goods Association has launched a college scholarship program to help establish sporting goods as a preferred employment destination for top students across the country who currently, or in the past, have worked for an NSGA member retailer or team dealer.
Applicants must have a top GPA, and provide both an official college transcript and a letter of recommendation from a representative of an NSGA member company. Preference will be given to students interested in a sporting goods retailing or team dealer career.
According to NSGA President & CEO, Matt Carlson, “We’re creating this program to help recognize some of the young employees that are integral parts of our retailer and team dealer members. Our goal is to financially assist award winners during their college years so they consider sporting goods as their industry of choice upon graduation.”
For its inaugural year, the application deadline is January 27, 2012, and recipients will be notified in early March.
A committee of NSGA members will review the candidates and choose the scholarship recipients, who will be announced in NSGA communication vehicles leading into the 2012 NSGA Management Conference & Team Dealer Summit.
Applications are now available on the NSGA website – www.nsga.org/collegescholarship – and more information may be obtained by contacting NSGA Director of Strategic Planning & Education, Chuck Suritz, by emailing csuritz@nsga.org, or by calling (847) 296-6742, ext. 130.