Thursday, May 6, 2004
MORAVIAN’S BREY & ROTZELL EARN LVAIAW HONORS
EASTON, PA --- Moravian College senior Janelle Brey (Allentown, PA/Dieruff HS) and
junior Kirsten Rotzell (Bangor, PA/Bangor HS) have been named the Lehigh
Valley Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women Player of the Year in their respective
sports.
The duo was honored at the annual LVAIAW Banquet hosted by Lafayette College Thursday. Brey earned
her honor on the softball field while Rotzell was honored for the field events.
Brey, who has been named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association
All-Region Team for the third consecutive year, has helped the Greyhounds to a 34-4 record
and the #1 ranking in the nation for a month during the season. She was a First Team All-Region
player in 2002 and on the Second Team last season. Brey currently holds
14 Moravian game, season and career records and ranks in the top five of the career offensive
categories she doesn’t own the record. Brey is hitting .408 this
season with 49 hits, 42 RBIs, 32 runs scored, 12 walks, 13 doubles, a triple and seven
home runs. Moravian is the top seed in the 2004 NCAA Division III Regional at Ramapo College
of New Jersey this weekend, which begins at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 7th.
Rotzell won three Middle Atlantic Conference championships in field
events this season. She won both the long jump and triple jump indoors and then captured
the triple jump outdoors and placed second in the long jump last weekend. Rotzell also
competed at the 2004 NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships, placing ninth in
the long jump and 13th in the triple jump. Rotzell also competes in the
sprint events, placing 2nd in the MAC and 14th at the NCAA indoor meets in the 55-meter
hurdles. She was also seventh in the 200-meters indoors at the MAC championship and fourth
in the 100-meter hurdles at the outdoor meet. Rotzell also ran on Moravian’s
winning 4x100-meter relay squad last weekend.
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