Sports News: Spring 1999

Wednesday, March 17, 1999

FOUR ‘HOUNDS ON MAC EXECUTIVE DIRCETOR’S
ALL-ACADEMIC TEAMS

EIGHT OTHERS NAMED TO ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL

ANNVILLE, PA --- A total of 12 student-athletes from Moravian College are listed on the Middle Atlantic Conference All-Academic Teams and Honor Rolls that were released Wednesday. This year is the first for the MAC Executive Director’s All-Academic Teams and the Academic Honor Rolls. In the past, all student-athletes were named to the MAC All-Academic Teams.

Moravian placed four student-athletes on the MAC Executive Director’s All-Academic Teams while the other eight were named to the Academic Honor Roll.

To be eligible for All-Academic honors, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore, maintain a 3.20 or higher grade point average and be a starter of significant reserve on a fall athletic team.

Seniors Jessie Coughlin (Bethlehem/Bethlehem Catholic HS) and Matt Getter (Broomall/Marple Newtown HS) from the women’s and men’s basketball teams and juniors Erica Landes (Reading/Muhlenberg HS) and Tim Pfluger (Slatington/Northern Lehigh HS) of the women’s and men’s indoor track and field teams were named to the MAC Executive Director’s All-Academic Team.

Coughlin led Moravian to its 19th straight winning season by averaging 12.6 points per game, 3.3 assists per contest and 2.9 steals per night. Coughlin, a member of the MAC Commonwealth League All-Star Second Team, completed her career with 1,137 points, 346 assists, 312 steals, and 166 three-pointers in 99 games.

Getter set the Moravian single season and career three-point field goal records this season. He connected on 71 treys this winter and made 140 three-pointers in his career. He was second on the Greyhound squad in scoring this season at 14.5 points per game. Getter also set a school record with nine three-pointers in a 36-point effort in a victory over Elizabethtown.

Landes placed third at the MAC Championships in the high jump, clearing a height of five feet. She cleared the same distance last winter for the MAC Indoor title. Pfluger was the MAC Champion in the 1,500 meters this season, as was also part of the MAC Champion distance medley relay team.

Earning spots on the MAC Academic Honor Roll were senior Stephanie Rickards (Lansdowne/Upper Darby HS) and junior Jen Polaha (West Lawn/Holy Name HS) from the women’s basketball team, juniors Jim O’Rourke (Park Ridge, NJ/Park Ridge HS) and Rich Whalen (East Brunswick, NJ/East Brunswick HS) of the men’s basketball squad, sophomores Brooke Dancho (Bethlehem/Freedom HS) and Leah Williams (Andreas/Tamaqua HS) from the women’s indoor track and field team and senior Chris Lowthert (Auburn/Pottsville HS) and sophomore Damon Rutherford (Reading/Exeter HS) of the men’s indoor track and field team.

Rickards, a two-time GTE Academic All-American in volleyball, averaged 7.5 points and 6.1 rebounds for the 14-10 Lady Greyhounds while Polaha, one of the team’s best defenders, scored 2.1 points per contest.

O’Rourke was inserted into the 10-14 Greyhounds starting line-up late in the season and averaged 3.8 points and 3.4 rebounds per game while Whalen, the starting point guard, netted 5.9 points per contest and dished out 3.5 assists a night.

Dancho placed second in the long jump and fourth in the 200 meters at the MAC Championships while Williams competed on the MAC Champion 1,600-meter relay team. Rutherford was fifth in the 5,000 meters and sixth in the 10,000 meters at the MAC meet while Lowthert competed in the distance events as well.