Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Senior Tim Petri has the distinction of becoming the first WPI student-athlete to earn the NCAAs coveted Elite 90 Award, as announced at the 2017 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships banquet Tuesday night.

WPI junior Ama Biney was unanimously selected as the Worcester Area College Basketball Association (WACBA) Women's Player of the Year. The voting was conducted by the sports information departments from the nine four-year schools in Worcester County, including Assumption and Holy Cross, as well as three members of the local media.

Senior Hope Shevchuk claimed her fourth National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Scholar of Distinction honor while 10 others were also named to the National Academic Squad and the team earned its 13th consecutive National Academic Team Award.

Junior Ama Biney has been tabbed as the first D3hoops.com Women's Basketball All-Northeast Team selection in program history. The local product was named to the second team.

Sophomore Nick Day, junior Jack Nigro and freshman Tyler Marsh have been named Division III Scholar All-Americans by the National Wrestling Coaches Association. Collectively, the Engineers starting lineup, along with four key reserves, boasted a 3.22 GPA to earn top 30 program status for the second consecutive season. The Crimson and Gray were 19th overall out of over 100 Division III wrestling programs.

Comei had an outstanding week in the Engineers final eight games on Spring Break in Central Florida, hitting .563 with a home run, two doubles, two walks, a sacrifice bunt, four stolen bases and 11 RBI

The quartet of sophomore Jack Bauer, senior Tim Petri, junior Karim Elsayed and senior Andrew Bauer clocked a 1:29.74 in the 200-yard medley relay championship final to become the highest finishing relay in program history.

This past week it was announced that Shevchuk earned her fourth NFHCA Scholar of Distinction for carrying at least a 3.9 GPA during the field hockey season.

Rives won both of his starts on the week. He yielded three hits and two walks and fanned five in six against Muskingum. The sophomore held Ohio Northern to four hits and one walk while striking out three in a five-inning outing in the finale versus Ohio Northern.

Murphy-Cook led the Engineers with a .435 batting average with seven stolen bases, four walks and three RBI. The junior enjoyed a quartet of 2-for-3 performances in the eight-game stretch. She has also stolen at least one base in the last five games and totals 11 on the young season.

Packard, the first rookie to make the indoor championships in the decade-plus that head coach Brian Chabot has been associated with the program, was in contention for a spot in the finals through two laps with splits of 32.362 (sixth) and 32.999 (fourth) for a fifth-place time of 1:05.361. The second half of the race was not as fruitful resulting in a total time of 2:18.54, which was 4.49 off her best converted time of the season.

Fabrizio batted .667 on the week, including a 3-for-4 performance in the season opener versus Thiel. She drew a walk against Simmons and scored a run in each game. It marks the third consecutive year the nationally-ranked Engineers have gone 2-0 to begin the season.

Capuano posted a slash line of .667/.714/1.500 with four RBI in the season-opening DH versus St. Joseph's (ME). He followed up a 1-for-2 (double) game with a 3-for-4 outing featuring three runs, two more doubles and a triple.

Packard helped the distance medley relay achieve a new record time at the All-New England Championships and set the 800-meter run record at the BU Last Chance Meet. The team of Maggie LaRoche, Packard, Lea Strangio and Emily Newman combined for a 10th-place 12:23.81 Friday night while Packard handed in a 2:12.52 in the 800 Sunday. As a result, Packard jumped up 24 spots to No. 10 on the NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships performance list.

Freshman Alex Rus, junior Paul-Henry Schoenhagen, sophomore Ryan Wittenberg and junior Warren Staver collaborated for a second-place, and new record, time of 3:17.47 on Saturday to earn All-New England honors at the NEICAAA Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center. Their converted time of 3:20.63 is 13th overall, but more importantly 11th when the second teams from Wisconsin-Eau Claire and Wisconsin-La Crosse are removed.

Louisville, KY --- Senior Lindsay Gurska along with juniors Ama Biney and Nina Murphy-Cook are among the Schutt Sports/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III Player of Year Top 50. Now in its second year, the watch list will be pared down as the season progresses until one player remains. Biney and Murphy-Cook have the distinction of being chosen for a second time.

Freshman Sydney Packard has been selected to compete at the 2017 NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field Championships this weekend at North Central in Illinois. Additionally, a total of four individuals and a relay were named All-Region by the USTFCCCA for handing in a top five performance over the course of the season.

A handful of WPI track and field student-athletes competed at the Tufts Final Qualifier Saturday, March 4.

Four senior WPI winter student-athletes were named to the inaugural NEWMAC All-Sportsmanship Team, as announced as part of the league's revamped postseason award program.

Junior Ama Biney was named a repeat All-NEWMAC First Team selection and the inaugural NEWMAC Defensive Player of the Year while senior Priscilla Dunphy was placed on the second team.

The WPI senior duo of Ian Converse and Sean Doncaster accounted for three NEWMAC Men's Basketball postseason awards following a series of votes by the conference's head coaches.

The trio of Tyler Marsh, Stephen Jendritz and Dan Wensley reached the podium for WPI on Sunday (Feb. 26) as the Engineers competed in the final day of the NCAA Division III Northeast Regionals at Roger Williams.

The men's 4x400-meter relay and women's distance medley relay team each set a new record as the track and field programs were busy this past weekend with the All-New England All-Divisions Championships and the BU Last Chance Meet. Individually. Freshman Sydney Packard and senior Austin Scott set school records in the 800 and mile, respectively.

WPI juniors Randy Melanson and Kristen Bender closed out the diving portion of the schedules following day two of the NCAA Division III Diving Regional Saturday, February 25th at MIT.

Sophomore Jack Bauer along with fellow members of the 400-yard freestyle and 400-yard medley relay have earned an invitation to the 2017 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships, which will be held March 15 - 18 at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, Texas.

Honorees placed in the top eight individually or as part of a relay at the Division III New England Indoor Track & Field Championships this past weekend.

Two individuals accounted for three titles as three relays and an individual were second at the 2017 NEWMAC Swimming & Diving Championships. Each program also set seven records.

Led by men's swimming and diving seniors Ricky Coffin and Tim Petri, and women's swimming and diving seniors Emily Martin and Abbey Nack, 28 WPI winter student-athletes were designated Academic All-NEWMAC for their work in the classroom. The swimming & diving foursome each collected their third certificate while 14 others were repeat honorees and 10 were cited in their first year of eligibility.

Paced by four-time honoree senior Austin Scott a total of five WPI student-athletes were tabbed U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic in the sport of cross country. The men's and women's programs were also recognized as USTFCCCA All-Academic teams for the seventh-consecutive year.

Converse narrowly missed averaging a double-double in the Engineers 2-0 week as he posted 23.5 points and 9.5 rebounds to go with four assists, three blocks and three steals. He began with 24 points and eight rebounds at Wheaton before scoring 23 and grabbing 11 rebounds in the season finale versus Clark. He shot 50 percent from the field in both games.