Chi Alpha Sigma recognizes undergraduate college student-athletes who participate in a sport at the varsity intercollegiate level, achieve junior academic standing or higher after their fifth full time semester, and earn a 3.4 or higher cumulative grade point average.
Owls' athletics recognized its major award winners, including the Senior Scholar Athlete Awards, the Peter Mazza Athletic Award, the Senior Male and Female Athletes of the Year, and the John Kurty Award, the department's highest award for four-year contributions to athletics, and inducted 33 new members of Chi Alpha Sigma, the national honor society for college athletes.
At the conclusion of the winter sports season, Westfield State University Athletics continues to hold the top spot in the 2023-24 Howard C. Smith Cup standings as the best athletic program in the MASCAC.
Jackie Roccabruna (Pittsfield, Mass.) turned in a fourth place finish in the 100 freestyle at the Little East Conference Championship meet at the Boston Sports Institute in Wellesley, Mass., on Sunday, helping the Owls to a fifth place team finish.
Westfield State first-year Jackie Roccabruna (Pittsfield, Mass.) took second in the 200 freestyle to highlight day 2 of the Little East Conference Swimming and Diving Championships for the Owls at the Boston Sports Institute in Wellesley, Mass. on Saturday evening.
Westfield State women’s swimming and diving sits in fifth place in the team scoring after Friday evening’s finals at the Little East Conference Championship meet at the Boston Sports Institute in Wellesley, Mass.
The Westfield State women’s swimming and diving team were named to The College Swimming and Diving Association of America Scholar All-America Team for the 2023 Fall semester.
Westfield State had eight student athletes on the Women’s Swimming and Diving team that were named the Little East Conference Fall 2023 Academic Honor Roll, as announced by the league on Thursday.
Westfield State swimming and diving celebrated the careers of seniors Molly Finnegan and Kara Banagan on Saturday, then went out and swam past UMass-Dartmouth, 162-41 to cap the home portion of the schedule for the Owls.
Westfield State junior Alexa Richter won the 50 freestyle to lead the efforts of the Owls women’s swimming and diving team at the Bridgewater State Invitational on Saturday.
Smith College swimming and diving swept the first six events of the meet as the Pioneers swam past Westfield State, 190-87 in a dual meet at the Ely Pool on Saturday afternoon.
Westfield State’s 200-yard freestyle relay won the final event of the meet to secure a 116-113 win over Western New England University at the Alumni Healthful Living Center in Springfield on Saturday.
Sophomore Ally Linkenhoker (Monson, Mass./Belchertown) won three events for Westfield State, but the Owls fell to Simmons College, 135-123 in the season opening swimming and diving meet for both teams.