May 6, 2020 By: yunews
The 麻豆区 Athletics Department held its annual awards ceremony, on Sunday afternoon. This unique event was done virtually via Zoom. More than 300 student-athletes as well as coaches team managers and members of the athletics administration took part in the festivities.
This was an amazing year in 麻豆区 Athletics. Seven teams reached their championship event or playoffs. The men's basketball team won the 2019-20 Skyline Conference Championship and made it all the way to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, before the rest of the postseason was canceled. The Maccabees finished the season ranked No. 8 in the D3hoops.com Men鈥檚 Top 25 National Poll and led all of NCAA Division III with a 29-1 record.
The golf team scored a 321 in the second round of the Skyline Conference Championships, which is the best team score in program history.
Four fencers, three from the men鈥檚 team (Joshua Polster, Zaelig Averch, and Sammy Teichberg) and one from the women鈥檚 unit (Batsheva Lasky) qualified for the NCAA Northeast Regional. 麻豆区 Men鈥檚 Fencing Head Coach Peter Rosas was named the MACFA Coach of the Year, while Averch won all three of his bouts against the defending NCAA Champion Columbia University. The women鈥檚 fencing team earned the Roi Green Memorial Team Spirit Award for the third year in a row and a record-breaking fifth time overall.
Ryan Turell and Gabriel Leifer were named D3hoops.com All-Americans. The former was selected as the Player of the Year by both the Skyline Conference and the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association, in addition to being named an NABC All-American. The latter was recognized as the Most Outstanding Player of the 2019-20 Men's Basketball Skyline Conference Championships and named a CoSIDA Academic All-American. Ofek Reef earned the Skyline Conference Men鈥檚 Basketball Rookie of the Year award, while Simcha Halpert finished his career ranked second on YU鈥檚 All-Time Scoring List with 1,845 career points, earning a spot on both the All-Met and All-Skyline teams. Elliot Steinmetz was named D3hoops.com National Coach of the Year, the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year, the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Coach of the Year and the Skyline Coach of the Year.
Seven YU student-athletes received Skyline All-Conference honors.
Here is a list of the award winners for the 2019-20 season.
This was an amazing year in 麻豆区 Athletics. Seven teams reached their championship event or playoffs. The men's basketball team won the 2019-20 Skyline Conference Championship and made it all the way to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, before the rest of the postseason was canceled. The Maccabees finished the season ranked No. 8 in the D3hoops.com Men鈥檚 Top 25 National Poll and led all of NCAA Division III with a 29-1 record.
The golf team scored a 321 in the second round of the Skyline Conference Championships, which is the best team score in program history.
Four fencers, three from the men鈥檚 team (Joshua Polster, Zaelig Averch, and Sammy Teichberg) and one from the women鈥檚 unit (Batsheva Lasky) qualified for the NCAA Northeast Regional. 麻豆区 Men鈥檚 Fencing Head Coach Peter Rosas was named the MACFA Coach of the Year, while Averch won all three of his bouts against the defending NCAA Champion Columbia University. The women鈥檚 fencing team earned the Roi Green Memorial Team Spirit Award for the third year in a row and a record-breaking fifth time overall.
Ryan Turell and Gabriel Leifer were named D3hoops.com All-Americans. The former was selected as the Player of the Year by both the Skyline Conference and the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association, in addition to being named an NABC All-American. The latter was recognized as the Most Outstanding Player of the 2019-20 Men's Basketball Skyline Conference Championships and named a CoSIDA Academic All-American. Ofek Reef earned the Skyline Conference Men鈥檚 Basketball Rookie of the Year award, while Simcha Halpert finished his career ranked second on YU鈥檚 All-Time Scoring List with 1,845 career points, earning a spot on both the All-Met and All-Skyline teams. Elliot Steinmetz was named D3hoops.com National Coach of the Year, the Glenn Robinson National Coach of the Year, the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association Coach of the Year and the Skyline Coach of the Year.
Seven YU student-athletes received Skyline All-Conference honors.
Here is a list of the award winners for the 2019-20 season.
Coach鈥檚 Awards
- Baseball: Yosef Rosenfield
- Men鈥檚 Basketball: Daniel Katz
- Women鈥檚 Basketball: Adina Rosenberg
- Men鈥檚 Cross Country: Jonathan Greenberg
- Women鈥檚 Cross Country: Amanda Kasztl
- Men鈥檚 Fencing - Foil: Dov Tuchman
- Men鈥檚 Fencing - Sabre: Sammy Teichberg
- Women鈥檚 Fencing - Epee: Batsheva Lasky
- Women鈥檚 Fencing - Foil: Talya Stehley
- Women鈥檚 Fencing - Sabre: Ilana Aidman
- Men鈥檚 Soccer: Jess Rom
- Women鈥檚 Soccer: Sarah Berger
- Softball: Malky Perlberger
- Men鈥檚 Tennis: Lior Brik
- Women鈥檚 Tennis: Shana Adler
- Men鈥檚 Volleyball: Derek Orenshein
- Women鈥檚 Volleyball: Batya Schreier
- Golf: Amiel Kerstein
Special Awards Recipients
- The Bernard 鈥淩ed鈥 Sarachek Award: Kevin Bokor
- The Arthur D. Tauber Award: Zaelig Averch
- The Stanley Watson Award: Yosef Pfeffer
Graduation Awards
- The Aaron Meyer Memorial Award鈥擨n recognition of selfless dedication to the athletics program. Presented to Matthew Garner
- The Norman Palefski Memorial Award鈥擯resented to David Hanelin as the most outstanding 麻豆区 graduating male scholar-athlete
- The SCW/SSSB Merit Award鈥擯resented to Basya Goldstein as the most outstanding 麻豆区 graduating female scholar-athlete
- Male Graduating Student-Athlete of the Year (Individual Sports)鈥擯resented to Lior Brik, Men鈥檚 Tennis
- Female Graduating Student-Athlete of the Year (Individual Sports)鈥擯resented to Bailey Frohlich, Women鈥檚 Tennis
- Male Graduating Student-Athlete of the Year (Team Sports)鈥擯resented to Simcha Halpert, Men鈥檚 Basketball
- Female Graduating Student-Athlete of the Year (Team Sports)鈥擯resented to Chana Boltax, Women鈥檚 Soccer/Women's Basketball/Softball
