NEWS
NEWS
Women’s Swim
Team, Coach, Finish
Strong
BRIEFS
Coach, Players Honored
at Eastern College
Football Awards Banquet
BRIEFS
Sara Tarbert
Stamping Her Name
in the Record Books
Women’s basketball senior Sara Tarbert has stamped
her name not only in Stevenson history but in NCAA
In just the program’s third season, the Mustangs finished history as well. This season, she set the program record
in fourth place at the 2017 MAC Swimming Champion- in points and rebounds as well as recording her 2,000th
ships while scoring a program-record best 349 points. At career point. Tarbert also holds the school record in
the event, the team broke 16 of the 18 records and fin-
ished with a school record nine medals with two gold,
five silver, and two bronze. Sophomore Colby Stein won
the first gold medal in program history after taking the
100-yard backstroke with a school record time of 59.18
before freshman Melanie Milam picked up the second
field goals made. Currently, she has 27 consecutive
double doubles, setting a new Division III record. That
mark also ranks tied for fifth across all three divisions
in a career while her 26 consecutive double doubles
this season has her tied for fourth collegiately.
gold medal with a first place finish in the 200-yard back-
Stevenson University senior defensive back Austin Tennessee
and football head coach Ed Hottle led a total of seven Mustangs
who were honored on March 2 at the Eastern College Football
stroke, in a school record time of 2:07.39. Head coach
John Stuhltrager earned Coach of the Year honors for
the 13th time in his career.
Awards Banquet at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.,
home of the NFL’s New York Giants and New York Jets.
Tennessee was honored by the Metropolitan New York Football
Writers and American Football Networks as the Rocky Myers
Division III Defensive Player of the Year. Hottle was recognized
as the ECAC Division III South Coach of the Year. In addition,
Tennessee, senior Billy Lewis, junior Dan Williams, senior
Devonte Williams, junior Preston Addo, and sophomore
Ashton Leschke were recognized as ECAC All-Stars.
Tennessee, named a consensus First Team All-American by
D3football.com and the AFCA, was also selected as the D3football.
com East Region Defensive Player of the Year and the Middle
Atlantic Conference Defensive Player of the Year. In 2016, Hottle
led the Mustangs to a 9-2 record and a final ranking of No. 20 in
the D3football.com Top 25 in the team’s sixth season. Stevenson
earned its first Middle Atlantic Conference title with an 8-1
conference record, the program’s first NCAA appearance, and
Hottle was the MAC Coach of the Year.
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VENTURES/SPRING 2017
New Heights for
Indoor Track and Field
The Stevenson men’s and women’s indoor track and
field teams have set a new standard: breaking records.
This season the men’s team has broken seven individual
records as well as the 4x200 relay. The relay finished in a
time of 1:30.86, which ranks sixth collegiately and sec-
ond in Division III. Meanwhile, the women’s team has
broken eight individual records as well as three relays.
Freshman Danika Ani’s school record shot put throw of
13.82 meters, ranks first in the MAC and sixth in Divi-
sion III.
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