Sports News: Spring 1999

May 13, 1999

MORAVIAN HONORS SENIOR STUDENT-ATHLETES

MORAN & REECEK NAMED SENIOR ATHLETES OF THE YEAR

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Moravian College honored its 1999 senior student-athletes at its annual Senior Awards Banquet Thursday evening. Men’s basketball standout Jason Moran (Scranton/West Scranton HS) was named the Outstanding Senior Male Athlete while All-American and two-sport standout Kristie Reccek (Hellertown/Wilson HS) was honored with the Outstanding Senior Female Athlete award. The Blue & Grey Scholar Athletes awards were presented to volleyball and basketball player Stephanie Rickards (Lansdowne/Upper Darby HS) and men’s basketball player Matt Getter (Broomall/Marple Newtown HS). The H.T.D. Gillespie Award for outstanding service to Moravian’s athletics program was presented to Bob and Pat Schoenen.

Moran, a two-time Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth League All-Star, led the men’s basketball team to a 10-14 record this season and the squad’s fourth straight championship in the Greyhound Classic. Moran was also named the Most Valuable Player of the Greyhound Classic for the fourth straight season. He led Moravian this past winter with 16.1 points and 8.3 rebounds per game averages. Moran, who finished his career as a four-year starter with over 1,300 points and 700 rebounds, also led the Greyhounds with 33 blocks and was second on the squad with 60 assists.

Reccek was an All-American at the 1997 NCAA Division III Cross Country National Championships and won a total of 12 MAC Team Championships in her career with four in cross country, four in indoor track and field and four in outdoor track an d field. Reccek has also won 10 MAC Individual Championships the past two seasons including five this year. She was the MAC Champion at the MAC Cross Country meet and won both the 1,500 meters and the 3,000 meters at both the MAC Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Reccek was named the Most Outstanding Athlete at the MAC Outdoor meet and has automatically qualified in the 3,000 meters and provisionally qualified in the 1,500 meters at the NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships to be held at Baldwin Wallace College from May 20th to 24th. Reccek competed in the NCAA Division III Cross Country National Championships all four years at Moravian with one top ten team finish, eighth in 1997.

Rickards, who maintained a perfect 4.0 throughout her college career, led the women’s volleyball team to a 51-12 record over the last two seasons and the school’s first two appearances in the NCAA Division III National Championships in volleyball. This past season, Rickards set a school record with 468 kills and had a team leading .368 hitting percentage. She added 125 blocks, 276 digs and 38 service aces. Rickards was honored on the GTE Academic All-American College Division First Team and was the GTE Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for all of NCAA Divisions II and III and the NAIA. She was also on the MAC Commonwealth League All-Star First Team and the American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Mid-Atlantic Region Team. The English and secondary education major helped the women’s basketball team to a 14-10 record this season with career highs in points with 131 and in rebounds with 135. Rickards was named to the MAC All-Academic Teams six times in her career.

Getter set three records this past season with nine three-pointers in a game against Elizabethtown College on January 23rd, 71 three-pointers for the season and 142 three-pointers in his career. Getter netted 14.5 points per game this past winter and added 50 steals and 38 assists. Recently, Getter was named to the United States Jewish All-American Division III First Team. He led all players on the team in three-point field goal percentage at 38.6 percent (71 of 184). Getter will play for the United States in the Maccabiah Pan American Games to be held in Mexico City between July 8th to 20th. He was also named to the MAC Executive Director’s All-Academic Team this season after making the MAC Academic Honor Roll the two previous seasons.

The Schoenen’s have been active members of the Blue & Grey Club and have donated money to the athletics department for several different projects. The couple also works with the Blue & Grey Golf Classic and headed the committee for the President’s Inaugural Ball for Dr. Ervin J. Rokke’s last year.