Monday, February 25, 2002
TRIO NAMED MORAVIAN STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
BETHLEHEM, PA --- Freshman Kirsten Rotzell
(Bangor, PA/Bangor HS) of the Middle Atlantic Conference Champion women's indoor
track & field team, junior Kelly McLean (Allentown, PA/Salisbury HS) from
the women's basketball team and senior Kevin Bush (Stroudsburg, PA/Stroudsburg HS) of
the men's indoor track & field squad have been named the Moravian College Student-Athletes
of the week for their performances last week.
Rotzell, a jumper and sprinter, was named the Women's Most Outstanding Performer
while winning the long jump and triple jump and leading Moravian to its seventh straight
Middle Atlantic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championship. The Greyhounds
squad posted a team score of 147, 65 points ahead of second place Widener University. Rotzell won
the long jump with an Eastern College Athletic Conference qualifying leap of 5.29 meters
(17 feet, 4 ¼ inches) and she captured the triple jump with an ECAC qualifying distance
of 10.92 meters (35 feet, ten inches). Rotzell, who was Moravian's third straight
Most Outstanding Performer, placed sixth in the 55 meters with an ECAC qualifying time
of 7.68 seconds.
McLean, a forward, led Moravian to its
first postseason appearance since the 1997-98 season as the Greyhounds fell to Messiah
College, 66-56, in the Commonwealth Conference semifinals. McLean had her
second straight double-double in the game and her seventh of the season with 14 points
and 11 rebounds. She was seven of 12 from the floor in the contest.
Bush, a sprinter, was named the Men's Most Outstanding Performer after winning
the 200 and 400 meters in Middle Atlantic Conference record time and he helped the Greyhounds
to a third place team finish at the 2002 MAC Indoor Track & Field Championships. Widener
University captured the men's championship with a score of 139. Messiah College was
second with 84 points while Moravian had a score of 68 for third place. Bush,
Moravian's first Most Outstanding Performer since CJ Brown in 1996, won the 200
meters in a MAC record time and ECAC qualifying time of 22.68 seconds and he captured the
400 meters with a MAC record time and Eastern College Athletic Conference qualifying time
of 50.41 seconds. Bush also ran the anchor leg of the 4x400-meter relay and
helped the team capture the MAC title in a MAC record time of 3:28.28. Bush joined
freshman Scott Silvoy (Bethlehem, PA/Bethlehem Catholic HS), senior Josh Heebner
(Lansdale, PA/North Penn HS) and junior George Wacker (Honesdale, PA/Honesdale HS) on
the 4x400-meter relay squad. In Bush's final event, he placed seventh in the
55 meters in 7.24 seconds after qualifying for the finals with a time of 6.67 seconds in
the preliminaries.
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