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| Sports News: Spring 2002 |
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Thursday, May 2, 2002 FIVE GREYHOUNDS EARN LVAIAW HONORS ALLENTOWN, PA --- Moravian College seniors Heidi Wolfsberger (Moosic, PA/ Riverside HS), Kim Jaick (Coopersburg, PA/Southern Lehigh HS) and Corinne Kleinsmith (Shillington, PA/Governor Mifflin HS) and sophomores Kim Zipf (Wyomissing, PA/Holy Name HS) and Christina Scherwin (Denmark) have been named the Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Player of the Year in their respective sports. The four were honored at the annual LVAIAW Banquet hosted by Muhlenberg College Thursday. Wolfsberger was named the cross country Player of the Year while Jaick won the award for track. Kleinsmith earned the accolade for tennis and Zipf was honored for volleyball. Wolfsberger led the Moravian cross country team to its ninth straight Middle Atlantic Conference Championship, its second straight NCAA Division III Mideast Regional title and a third place finish at the NCAA Division III National Championships. Wolfsberger was the MAC Individual Champion for the third consecutive year and she won the Mideast Regional and was the runner-up at nationals for the second straight year. She is a three-time cross country All-American and Wolfsberger has been an All-American nine times in track & field. Jaick, who also earned All-American honors this year on the cross country team, is leading the Moravian track and field team at the 2002 MAC Championships hosted by Susquehanna University this weekend. Jaick enters the MAC meet with the top time in the conference in the 5,000 meters and she is second in the 10,000 meters. Jaick is automatically qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships in the 10,000 meters and she is a provisional qualifier in the 5,000 meters. Moravian is vying for its tenth straight MAC Championship. Kleinsmith played at first singles and first doubles for the Moravian tennis team last fall and helped the team to its second straight MAC Championships and the team's fifth title in the last six years. The Greyhounds posted an undefeated season at 16-0, the second undefeated campaign in the last four years. Kleinsmith, who finished her career with a 41-17 singles mark, won the 2001 MAC Doubles championship with partner, junior Jenn Genevese. The doubles title was the second of Kleinsmith's career and she has been on the MAC Commonwealth All-Star Team the last two years. Zipf, an outside hitter, helped the Greyhound volleyball squad reach the 2001 Commonwealth Conference Championship match, the sixth straight season Moravian had played for the conference title, and post an overall record of 25-9. Zipf was the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Year and she was on the Commonwealth Conference All-Star First Team and the American Volleyball Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic All-Region Team. Zipf led Moravian with 445 kills and 428 digs this season and will become the fourth player in school history to reach 1,000 career kills early in her junior season.Scherwin, who holds Denmark's national record in the javelin, heads into this weekend's MAC Championships as the favorite in the javelin and shot put. Scherwin has already set the Moravian records in both events at 183 feet, eight inches in the javelin and 43 feet, 9 ¾ inches in the shot put. She won the 108th Penn Relays in the javelin with a throw of 173 feet, five inches. |