Throughout this school year, Union’s Women’s sports programs have had solid seasons. This includes a number of academic accomplishments from our student-athletes.
Women’s Hockey captain Maren Friday won the ECAC’s Mandi Schwartz Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. She is the first Union student to win this award.
Not only that, but Cat Dacey was named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Athlete list for the second year in a row, alongside the whole Women’s Track team earning USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors.
Union’s Women’s Swimming & Diving team earned the Scholar All-America Team title from the CSCAA. Six Women’s Soccer players were named to Academic All-District Teams: Maddy Mack, Grace Penna, Anne Pearl, Anabelle Thomas, Maya Koster, and Ashley Sheldon.
Volleyball’s Shelby McKim was named to an Academic All-District Team by the College Sports Communicators. Women’s Basketball’s Jelena Perovic, Jenna Forman, and Grace Ceseretti have all been named to the Liberty League honor roll multiple times over the course of the season.
Fall term teed off with first-year Iyene Essien setting a record two-day score of 151 at the season-opening St. Lawrence University Fall Invitational. At their fall-season ending home invitational, Union Golf won gold against Vassar and St. Lawrence.
Women’s Crew Varsity 4+ won gold and Varsity 8+ won silver at the Mohawk Fall Classic. Women’s Soccer beat Hamilton College for the first time in 14 years, with a score of 2-1. The following game, they defeated #9 ranked Ithaca College 1-0 for the first time in 19 years. Ithaca was undefeated until their game against Union. Women’s Soccer’s Anne Pearl was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-Region fourth-team, the first since 2014.
Field Hockey placed three players, Maddie Greco, Sophie Brady, and Megan Dorsey, on NFHCA All-Region teams. Greco was also named to the All-America second team.
Fellow Volleyball players Shannon McGrath, Maddie McCarron, and Allie Kronenberg were named to All-Liberty League Teams. McGrath is the first Volleyball player to be named to a first-team since 2016.
Women’s Basketball’s Jelena Perovic was named Liberty League Performer of the Week early in the season. Women’s Hockey won the Mayor’s Cup against RPI for the first time since 2020. They also recently broke their season win record in their victory over Brown.
