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Ivy League Recap -- Spring 2004 |
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Untitled Document
Ivy League baseball reaffirmed its position on the national stage in the 2004 season. Thirteen Leaguers were taken in the Major League Baseball first-year player draft including Princeton outfielder B.J. Szymanski, who was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round. The Tigers won the Ivy League title and claimed victory in their first game of the NCAA tournament versus Virginia. Dartmouth’s Ed Lucas, an eighth-round draft choice of the Kansas City Royals, was named Ivy League Player of the Year after he led the League in hitting with a .493 average. Pitcher of the Year honors went to Harvard’s Trey Hendricks, a 24th-round selection of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Hendricks led the League in wins and was also chosen as a first-team All-Ivy selection at first base.
Men’s golf was another one of six Ivy League championships won by Princeton in the spring. Jason Gerken, who won the Ivy League Golf Championships by five strokes over his nearest competitor, led the Tigers. It was the fourth time in five years that Princeton had won the Championship. Both the Tigers and Yale advanced to the NCAA Tournament before falling in their respective regional tournaments.
The women’s golf title fell the way of the Tigers. Avery Kiser, who won the tourney for Princeton, became the first player to earn medalist honors three times. The Tigers beat runner-up Yale by 13 strokes before falling in the NCAA regional at Illinois.
Three Ivy League teams made it to the NCAA Tournament in Men’s Lacrosse and League co-champion Princeton advanced to the Final Four before succumbing to Navy, 8-7. The Tigers' Ryan Boyle was named Player of the Year after recording 67 points (23 goals, 44 assists). Boyle was the No. 2 overall pick in the Major League Lacrosse draft in June. The other co-champion, Cornell, advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament where the Big Red was also eliminated by the Midshipmen.
Princeton was ranked No. 1 in the nation all year in women’s lacrosse but fell in the NCAA title game to Virginia. That loss snapped a 28-game win streak for the Tigers. In 2004, Princeton was a perfect 7-0 in conference play while winning the Ivy League title. Midfielder Theresa Sherry was named Player of the Year after scoring 42 goals and assisting on another 15 for the Tigers. Six Leaguers were named IWLCA/USLacrosse Division 1 first-team All-Americans.
Men’s rowing was all Harvard. Both the lights and heavies won the Ivy Championship by being the top Ivy boat at the Eastern Sprints. The heavyweights built on the success of their Ivy and EARC Sprints titles to win the national championship at the IRA Regatta. It was the first time since 1995 that a crew had repeated as national champs. The Crimson won the annual race versus Yale at Red Top before heading to Lucerne, Switzerland, to race in the Bearing Point World Rowing Cup Regatta. Harvard took sixth in that event and then placed second at Henley, behind the Dutch National Team. Princeton’s lightweights claimed the top spot at the IRAs as far as Ivy League crews were concerned, taking third overall.
In women’s rowing, Princeton won the Sprints title and the Ivy Championship that goes with it. Four schools advanced to the NCAA Championships where Brown emerged victorious, claiming its fourth national title in the last six years. The Bears finished 12 points ahead of Yale, the national runner-up. Seven rowers and a cox were selected as first-team All-Americans and Brown’s Karen Prazar was tabbed as an Academic All-American.
It was a season of streaks for the Cornell softball team. The Big Red won the Ivy Championship on its way to 18 straight victories and a school-record 42-win season. Cornell won its first NCAA Tournament game in school history with a 2-1 decision over Long Beach State. Losses to Alabama and Mississippi Valley State ended the Big Red’s run. Cornell’s Lauren May won the League’s unofficial triple crown, was named Player of Year, and was selected as a third-team All-American. Harvard’s Kara Brotemarkle was named Co-Pitcher of the Year after striking out 133 in 135 innings. Sharing Pitcher of the Year honors with Brotemarkle was Brown’s Uchennna Omokaro, who was named to the All-Ivy team for the second time.
Led by Player of the Year David Lingman, the Harvard men’s tennis team won its second consecutive Ivy League championship and pushed its conference win streak to 21 matches. The Crimson advanced to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament before falling to No. 1 seed Illinois, 4-3. Two of the final 16 doubles teams in the NCAA Tournamnent were Ivy Leaguers, Brown’s Jamie Cerretani and Adil Shamasdin accompanied Lingman and Jonathon Chu from Harvard.
On the women’s side of the net Harvard took another Ivy Championship. The Crimson won its 15th League title and second in a row on the strength of Player of the Year Courtney Bergman. Bergman was 5-0 in singles play and 6-0 in doubles play on the season. 
Harvard was the lone Ivy school to receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament, but was upset in the first round by Ohio State.
Cornell’s third and fourth Ivy League Championships of the spring season came at Brown Stadium in Providence, R.I., as the Big Red swept both the men’s and women’s Ivy Heptagonal Outdoor Championships. Penn wrapped up second place for the men and Brown took second for the women. Princeton’s Emily Kroshus captured the Female Athlete of the Meet award with two first-place finishes, the 5,000 and 10,000-meter runs, and a second-place finish in the 3,000-meter. Cornell’s Rahim Wooley won the 100 and 200-meter races to claim the title of Male Athlete of the Meet.
All eight schools were represented at the NCAA Regional as 94 athletes participated. Of the 94, 19 went on to compete in the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas. Four men finished in the top 10 including Penn’s Brian Chaput (second in the javelin) and Dartmouth’s Mustafa Abdur-Rahim (third in the decathalon). Two Princeton women were the lone Ivy League top-10 finishers. Kroshus was fourth in the 10,000-meter run and Chelo Canino was sixth in the pole vault.
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At A Glance
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League Championship Teams (*NCAA) |
| Baseball |
Princeton* |
| Golf (M) |
Princeton* |
| Golf (W) |
Princeton* |
| Lacrosse (M) |
Cornell*, Princeton* |
| Lacrosse (W) |
Princeton* |
| Heavyweight Rowing (M) |
Harvard |
| Heavyweight Rowing (W) |
Princeton* |
| Lightweight Rowing (M) |
Harvard |
| Lightweight Rowing (W) |
Radcliffe |
| Softball |
Cornell* |
| Tennis (M) |
Harvard* |
| Tennis (W) |
Harvard* |
| Outdoor Track (M) |
Cornell* |
| Outdoor Track (W) |
Cornell* |
Additional NCAA Participants |
| Golf (M) |
Yale |
| Lacrosse (M) |
Penn |
| Lacrosse (W) |
Dartmouth |
| Heavyweight Rowing (W) |
Brown, Radcliffe, Yale |
| Tennis (M) |
Brown |
| Outdoor Track (M) |
Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale |
| Outdoor Track (W) |
Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale |
Player of the Year |
| Baseball |
Trey Hendricks (Harvard)
Ed Lucas (Dartmouth) |
| Lacrosse (M) |
Ryan Boyle (Princeton) |
| Lacrosse (W) |
Theresa Sherry (Princeton) |
| Softball |
Kara Brotemarkle (Harvard)
Lauren May (Cornell)
Uchenna Omokaro (Brown) |
| Tennis (M) |
David Lingman (Harvard) |
| Tennis (W) |
Courtney Bergman (Harvard) |
All-Americans |
| Baseball |
Third Team: |
Ed Lucas (Dartmouth)
Ross Ohlendorf (Princeton) |
| Frosh Team: |
Stephen Perry (Dartmouth) |
| Lacrosse (M) |
First Team: |
Ryan Boyle (Princeton) |
| Third Team: |
Tim DeBlois (Cornell) |
| HM: |
Oliver Barry (Princeton)
Joe Boulukos (Cornell)
Drew Casino (Princeton)
Andrew Collins (Cornell)
Jason Doneger (Princeton)
Ben Grinnell (Dartmouth)
Ryan Kelly (Penn)
Mike Levin (Brown)
Will Phillips (Penn)
Ricky Schultz (Princeton) |
| Lacrosse (W) |
First Team: |
Lindsey Biles (Princeton)
Kate Norbury (Princeton)
Elizabeth Pillion (Princeton)
Theresa Sherry (Princeton)
Lana Smith (Dartmouth)
Miles Whitman (Yale) |
| Third Team: |
Jennifer Kessel (Yale)
Sophie Melniker (Yale)
Lauren Vance (Princeton)
Devon Wills (Dartmouth) |
| Heavyweight Rowing (W) |
First Team: |
Ashley Brzozowicz (Yale)
Hannah England (Princeton)
Lis Lambert (Radcliffe)
Caroline Lind (Princeton)
Karen Prazar (Brown)
Maria Stevens (Yale)
Marie Walcott (Brown)
Erika Faires (Brown) -- cox
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| Softball |
Third Team: |
Lauren May (Cornell) |
| Outdoor Track (M) |
First Team: |
Mustafa Abdur-Rahim (Dartmouth)
Brian Chaput (Penn)
Sean Furey (Dartmouth)
Steve Sundell (Columbia) |
| Outdoor Track (W) |
First Team: |
Chelo Canino (Princeton)
Emily Kroshus (Princeton) |
CoSIDA Academic All-Americans |
| Lacrosse (M) |
Second Team: |
Tim DeBlois (Cornell) |
| Heavyweight Rowing (W) |
First Team: |
Karen Prazar (Brown) |
| Tennis (M) |
Second Team: |
Scott Paltrowitz (Cornell) |
| Men's Outdoor Track |
First Team: |
Brian Chaput (Penn) |
| Third Team: |
Sean Furey (Dartmouth) |
CoSIDA Academic All-District |
| Baseball |
First Team: |
Matt Horn (Penn)
Ross Ohlendorf (Princeton)
Bobby Wiginton (Brown) |
| Golf (M) |
First Team: |
Kevin Scelfo (Cornell) |
| Lacrosse (M) |
First Team: |
Tim DeBlois (Cornell)
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| Second Team: |
Jason Doneger (Princeton)
David Willard (Princeton)
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| Lacrosse (W) |
Second Team: |
Adie Moll (Columbia) |
| Heavyweight Rowing (W) |
First Team: |
Karen Prazar (Brown) |
| Second team: |
Lis Lambert (Harvard) |
| Softball |
First Team: |
Peggy Hunt (Yale)
Leah Kelley (Yale)
Kristy Kwiatkowski (Yale)
Marisa Marconi (Columbia)
Beth Pavlicek (Yale)
Ty Ries (Princeton) |
| Second Team: |
Kara Brotemarkle (Harvard) |
| Tennis (M) |
First Team: |
Scott Paltrowitz (Cornell) |
| Outdoor Track (M) |
First Team: |
Brian Chaput (Penn)
Sean Furey (Dartmouth)
Giles Longley-Cook (Cornell)
Mike Nanaszko (Cornell) |
| Outdoor Track (W) |
First Team: |
Shonda Brown (Cornell)
Rebecca Hunter (Yale) |
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