2016 LC MAGAZINE

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Morgan Mantle ’07 was
inducted into the West
Branch Valley chapter of the
Pennsylvania Sports Hall of
Fame. The softball pitcher’s
1.13 career ERA is 23rd-best
in Division III history …The
women’s swim team defeated
Stevenson, 129-102, to give
Jerry Hammaker his 100th
win with the women
in his 15 years as head
coach …Wrestling
coach Roger Crebs ’87
won his 350th career
match in his 23rd
year, as the team
defeated McDaniel,
28-15, in the season opener
… In his final game, Ryan
Umpleby ’16 set a school
record with 241 receiving
yards as the football team
downed Misericordia, 38-14.
Umpleby and Matt Patterson
’16 were both named First
Team All-MAC days later.
DECEMBER
In the final National Soccer
Coaches Association of
America poll, the men’s
soccer team was ranked
10th, as the team reached the
NCAA Sweet 16 for the first
time in program history.
JANUARY
Former head football coach
and director of athletics
Frank Girardi was selected
for induction into the College
Football Hall of Fame Class
of 2016. Girardi won 257
games, 16th-most in NCAA
history, during 36 seasons as
coach of the Warriors from
1972-07 … A record group
of 63 Lycoming student
athletes earned a slot on the
2015 MAC Fall Academic
Honor Roll. Five of
Lycoming’s six fall athletic
programs set or tied
program records for
Academic Honor Roll
selections, with the
football (21), men’s
cross country (8),
women’s cross country
(9), women’s soccer (10)
and men’s soccer (8) teams all
breaking or setting
new marks for
selections … Seth
Lansberry ’17 won
his first conference
title by taking first
at 149 pounds at the
Empire Collegiate
Wrestling Conference
Championships …Thomas
picks up his second All-
America honors of the year
in men’s soccer, as he earned
second-team accolades from
both the National Soccer
Coaches Association of
America and
… Nolan Barger ’17 wins
the MAC wrestling title
at 165 pounds, becoming
the first Lycoming MAC
champion since 2006 … Jerry
Hammaker reached 200
career dual meet wins with a
double-dual meet sweep, as
the men’s swimmers posted
a 176-79 win over King’s
and 183-64 win over FDU-
Florham and the women
won by scores of 144.5-111.5
and 186-62, respectively …
The women’s swim team
earns Collegiate Swimming
Coaches Association of
America Scholar All-
American Team honors for
the fourth straight semester.
FEBRUARY
The women’s basketball
team clinched a spot in
the MAC Commonwealth
Championship for
the third time in
four years by posting
a 50-49 win over
Arcadia on Feb. 6,
two weeks before the
regular season came
to a close …The men’s
swimming team kicked off
the MAC Championships by
finishing second in the 200-
yard medley relay, the team’s
highest finish in the event
since 2004 …The men’s
400-yard medley relay set a
school record while finishing
second in
3:31.22 and
sophomore
Andrew
Canavan
set a school
record with
a time of
1:56.00
in the 200-yard backstroke
at the event …The men’s
and women’s cross country
teams were each named
All-Academic Teams by
the United States Track &
Field and Cross Country
Coaches Association for
the third straight year …
After securing a spot in
the MAC Commonwealth
Championship on the final
day of the regular season, the
Lycoming men’s basketball
team dominated in victories
over Stevenson (89-75) and
Alvernia (69-53) to reach
the conference finals for the
third time in five years. The
Warriors won the conference
championship with a dramatic
78-73 win over Arcadia, as
Nyk King stripped a defender
and hit a layup with 22
Roger Crebs ’87
Seth Lansberry ’17
Andrew
Canavan ’18
President Kent Trachte and Director of Athletics Mike Clark ’93
congratulate Head Swimming Coach Jerry Hammaker and present him a
plaque after he won his 200th career dual meet.
The Lycoming men’s soccer team won a school-record 18 games and
advanced to the NCAA Division III Sweet 16.
Former softball pitcher Morgan
Mantle ’07 was inducted into the
West Branch Valley Sports Hall
of Fame.
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