PHILADELPHIA – Senior Andrew
Sturner has been named the 2011 Philadelphia
Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area Men's Cross Country
Team's Performer of the Year and is joined on the squad by senior
teammate Eric Arnold. In
addition to the cross country duo, Haverford College placed three
more of its fall sport student-athletes onto all-area teams: field
hockey junior Mary Hobbs,
senior men's soccer player Alejandro
Rettig y Martinez and senior Emily Lipman
of the women's cross country team.
The all-area team is voted on by the sports information offices
of the 28 institutions from within the Philadelphia metropolitan
area which compose the Philadelphia Area Sports Information
Directors Association (Philly-SIDA).
Sturner and Arnold earn academic all-area cross country honors
for the first time in their careers after earning inclusion on the
Centennial Conference academic honor roll three times each. The
pair also represent the only institution to have more than one
runner on the 2011 seven-man all-area squad.
Sturner ran to All-America status with a 31st-place finish at
the 2011 NCAA Divsion III championship meet. In addition to his
academic all-area honor, Sturner's postseason includes earning
first-team all-conference and All-Mideast region honors. He placed
10th at the region meet and fifth in the Centennial championship
race.
Arnold was also a first-team all-Centennial and All-Mideast
region performer. He was the individual runner-up at the region
meet by less than a stride and finished fourth overall in the
conference race before closing out the season with a 43rd-place
finish at the NCAA championship meet.
The senior duo helped Haverford to team titles at the conference
and region meets, and to a runner-up finish at the national
meet.
Voted a second-team 2011 Longstreth/National Field Hockey
Coaches Association (NFHCA) Division III All-South Region player
and second-team all-Centennial Conference performer already this
postseason, Hobbs has also earned inclusion on the Centennial
Academic Honor Roll for the second time in her career.
Hobbs ranked 16th among NCAA Division III players this season
with a 1.11 goals per game mark and was 17th nationally in points
per game (2.63). She led the team with 50 points from 21 goals and
eight assists and tied for the team lead in game-winning goals with
three, including the go-ahead goal after scoring the equalizer in a
3-2 conference tournament semifinal win over Washington
College.
In early-October Hobbs was selected as the conference's
offensive player of the week following a 7-0 victory over
Gettysburg College during which she scored four goals and added a
pair of assists for a 10-point outing, a program single-game
record.
One other Centennial player, Alyssa Thren of Ursinus College,
joins Hobbs on the all-area field hockey team. The performer of the
year is Brynn Adams, the 2011 Longstreth/NFHCA D-II National Player
of the Year, from national champion West Chester University.
Rettig y Martinez, named to the all-Centennial Conference second
team and Centennial academic honor roll (third time in career)
already this postseason, picks up his first academic all-area
nod.
During a season which culminated with a shootout loss in the
conference tournament final in the team's first trip to the
Centennial playoffs, Rettig y Martinez led the offensive attack
with eight goals. His final score came in the conference semifinal
game, netting the first goal in a 2-1 upset win over top-seed and
host Johns Hopkins University.
Within league statistics he was second in goals per game (0.44)
and tied for fourth-best in game-winning goals with three on the
season. Rettig y Martinez was selected twice as the Centennial's
offensive player of the week (Oct. 10 and No. 1).
David D'Annunzio and Micah Rose of Swarthmore join Rettig y
Martinez as representatives from the Centennial on the 11-player
team. Thomas Brandt of Penn and Tim VanLiew of Rutgers-Camden are
the co-performers of the year for the all-area team.
Lipman earns academic all-area honors for the first time in her
career after earning inclusion on the Centennial Conference
academic honor roll three times.
In her final cross country season for the Fords, Lipman was the
first Haverford runner across the finish line in all three
postseason races earning first-team all-conference and all-Mideast
Region honors along the way. She narrowly missed capturing the
individual conference crown crossing the finish 1.3 seconds behind
the winner, then brought home a seventh-place finish at the region
meet and 53rd-place finish at the NCAA Division III championship
race in the following weeks.
Lipman was the lone Centennial representative on the
seven-runner all-area team. The 2011 performer of the year is
Villanova University's Sheila Reid, a two-time NCAA D-I individual
national champion (2010, 2011).
2011 Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA
Academic All-Area Men's Cross Country Team
2011 Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic
All-Area Field Hockey Team
2011 Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic
All-Area Men's Soccer Team
2011 Philadelphia Inquirer/Philly-SIDA Academic
All-Area Women's Cross Country Team
