Wednesday,
May 2, 2007
THREE MORAVIAN STUDENT-ATHLETES HONORED
WITH LVAIAW AWARDS
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Seniors
Jenny Hackleman, Margo Kokolus and Erin Recker
at the 2007 LVAIAW Awards Luncheon. |
BETHLEHEM, PA --- Three Moravian College student-athletes, seniors
Margo Kokolus (Orefield, PA/Parkland HS),
Erin Recker (Catasauqua, PA/Catasauqua HS) and Jenny
Hackleman (Solvang, CA/Rutgers Prep {NJ} HS), were honored
with awards at the 2007 Lehigh Valley Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics for Women Annual Awards luncheon hosted by Moravian Wednesday.
The LVAIAW is made up of seven schools, Cedar Crest College, DeSales
University, Lafayette College, Lehigh University, Kutztown University
of Pennsylvania, Moravian and Muhlenberg College. For pictures from
the event, click
here.
Kokolus earned her award in the sport of women’s
tennis after leading Moravian to a 12-1 record last fall and its
first-ever NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament appearance.
Kokolus named to the Commonwealth All-Conference
First Team while posting a 9-8 record at first singles for the Greyhounds.
Kokolus was also 6-10 in doubles action while playing
the top spot with senior Courtney Hall. Moravian is now 14-2 overall
and will participate in the NCAA Division III Regional at Washington
& Lee University on Friday, May 4th when the team takes on Johns
Hopkins University at 2:00 p.m. in a first round match. However,
Kokolus will not be playing due to an injury that
has sidelined her for the entire spring season.
Recker was honored for her prowess on the track.
This past winter, Recker won the 55-meter dash at the 2007 Middle
Atlantic Conference Championship in a time of 7.34 seconds, the
fourth consecutive year she has won the event at the MAC Indoor
Championship meet. Over her career, Recker has
qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships in the
55-meter dash indoors and the 100 and 200-meter dashes outdoors.
She placed tenth in the 55-meter dash at the 2005 NCAA Indoor Meet.
Recker, who has helped Moravian to three indoor
MAC team championships and two outdoors, has also won a total of
nine MAC Championships in her career with two wins in the 100-meter
dash outdoors, two in the 4x100-meter relay outdoors and one in
the 4x200-meter relay indoors in addition to her four 55-meter dash
titles indoors. Recker is part of Moravian’s
outdoor 4x100-meter relay squad that set the school record and provisionally
qualified for the 2007 NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships
on April 21st.
Hackleman, who was named Moravian’s LVAIAW
Outstanding Athlete for the school, helped Moravian's women's basketball
team to a 19-11 overall record and the 2007 Eastern Collegiate Athletic
Conference Division III Southern Championship. Hackleman
averaged 11.2 points per contest while contributing 65 assists,
50 steals, and she led the team in rebounds with 229 and in blocked
shots with 32 this season. Hackleman was also named
to the Commonwealth All Conference Second Team. Hackleman
finished out her career with 814 rebounds, which is third all-time,
and with 1,161 points, which is 11th all-time.
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