Pasco-Hernando State College Volume XII, Issue I - Spring 2018 | Page 15

PHSC finished first with a team score of 25 points. South
Florida State College finished second with 67 points followed by
Tallahassee Community College (69), State College at Jacksonville
(86), and Chipola College (123).
The PHSC cross country team competed in the NJCAA Division I
Women’s Cross Country Championship in November in Ft. Dodge,
Iowa, finishing in the Top 25 for the second consecutive year.
The team closed their season with the Women’s Half Marathon in
Topeka, Kan., for the NJCAA Half Marathon Championship. The
Bobcats braved temperatures in the low 40s, light rain and strong
wind for the 13.1 mile race. PHSC finished sixth in which nine full
teams participated. Freshman Quincy Mayer finished 32nd overall
with a time of 1:40:09, followed by sophomore Lauren Hale
(37 th /1:43:41), freshman Montana Gottman (39 th /1:43:57), freshman
Skylen Acuna (41 st /1:47:07) and freshman Savanna Van Wechel
(48 th /1:53:10). Four of the five women had personal records for
this distance.
KUDOS TO PHSC ATHLETES
Volleyball
Carla Butler
All Tournament Team, Catawba Valley Invitational
Camden Bitter
Defensive Player of the Week (10/16-22)
25-Dig Club (Oct. 3 and 20)
Morgan Church
Defensive Player of the Week (10/2-8 and 10/23-29)
25-Dig Club (Oct. 3, 6, 10, 24, 26)
All Tournament Team, District P Championship
Sarah Asbury
All Tournament Team, District P Championship
Abby Epstein
Tournament MVP
All Tournament Team, District P Championship
PHSC women’s cross country team defended their state/regional
title as NJCAA/FCSAA Region 8 champions; bottom row: Montana
Gottman; Angela Goldstein; Savanna Van Wechel; Annaliese Besaw;
Maddie Toth. Top row: Jacki Wachtel, Head Coach; Steve Winterling,
Athletic Director; Dominique Phillips-Alvarez; Quincy Mayer; Skylen
Acuna; Lauren Hale; Kylyn Burbine; Jessica Davis; and Lee Rietsma,
Assistant Coach.
Alumni Games Highlight of Fall Ball
Alumni games are a highlight of the fall season. “It’s a great
opportunity for our current student athletes to visit with those
who have walked in their shoes and for the alumni to renew old
friendships from their days playing at the college,” said Steve
Winterling, PHSC Athletic Director and Men’s Head Baseball
Coach. The fall scrimmage season provides freshmen a chance to
acclimate to college ball and the sophomores to improve their skill
level and prepare for the four-year programs they hope to attend
after the spring.
“I look forward to the spring season and the challenges that lie
ahead of us in men’s baseball. Our schedule is very tough as we
play some of the top FCSAA DI programs in the state. The team
returns nine sophomores from last season’s 25-20 club. With the
addition of 15 new players, we are determined to be well prepared
for the 2018 spring season and the regional tournament that we
will host in April,” said Winterling.
Cross Country
Quincy Mayer
Top JNCAA Region 8 Finisher, Mountain Dew
Invitational (5000 meters in 20:12)
KUDOS FOR COACHES
Coach Jacki Wachtel, PHSC Women’s Cross
Country Head Coach
2017 Women’s Cross Country Region 8 Coach of
the Year
Coach Kim Whitney, PHSC Women’s Volleyball
Head Coach and Assistant Athletic Director
2017 American Volleyball Coaches Association
(AVCA) Northeast/Southeast Region Coach of
the Year
SPRING 2018
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