General McLane graduate Marc Farrell was named an all-West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference first-team midfielder for the West Virginia Wesleyan soccer team.
The Bobcats won the WVIAC championship with a 2-1 overtime victory over Davis & Elkins, their 11th WVIAC title in the 17 years.
Farrell, a senior from Edinboro, appeared in 21 games and scored two goals and added an assist.
-- Fairview native and Mercyhurst College graduate Scott Koskoski was named Tennessee-Chattanooga’s assistant athletics director for development. He’s responsible for fund-raising.
Koskoski is a 2000 Mercyhurst graduate. He earned a master’s degree and MBA in sports management from Robert Morris in 2002. He’s also worked in athletic administration at James Madison, Niagara, Washington & Jefferson and Robert Morris.
-- Fairview’s Rachel Stuck is a junior on the Kent State gymnastics team.
The Golden Flashes are the preseason favorites to win the Mid-American Conference championship.
As a sophomore, Stuck tied for third on the vault and tied for fourth on floor at the MAC championships.
-- Meadville’s Kyle Brown and Hartstown’s Amber Nichols, both 2007 Thiel College graduates, will be honored Feb. 10 at the college’s Athletic Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony.
Brown will be presented with the Charles Evanoff Award and Nichols will be presented with the J. Lynn Trimble Award. The awards go to previous-year seniors who best demonstrated qualities of scholarship, leadership, character and sportsmanship in addition to participation in athletics.
Brown, a four-year wrestling starter at heavyweight, went 128-34 and won four Presidents’ Athletic Conference titles. He is a two-time NCAA Division III Midwest Regional champion and the first Tomcat heavyweight to earn All-American honors, finishing eighth at the national championships as a senior. A physics major, he was a three-time National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholar All-American and made the dean’s list three times.
Nichols, a Jamestown (Pa.) graduate, was a two-year starter in right field for the Thiel softball team. Se led the PAC in batting (.488) and finished second in on-base percentage (.522) as a senior, and was named first-team all-PAC. She also was named to the Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division III all-region second team and the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II second team.
-- Mercyhurst College junior soccer player Rebecca Heintzman was one of 12 fall recipients of the inaugural GLIAC Commissioner’s Awards for Academic and Athletic Excellence.
Heintzman is a two-year starting goalkeeper for the Lakers women’s soccer team and posted nine shutouts in 2007. She had a 1.14 goals-against average. In the Division II playoffs, she had a shutout in a 1-0 win over No. 22 Quincy and allowed one goal against undefeated No. 1 Grand Valley State in a game that ended tied at 1-1 through regulation and two overtimes.
She is a two-time member of the GLIAC all-Academic Team and is a biology major with a 3.84 grade-point average.
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