Sports

Fox, Kelley are Yeoathletes of the year

Fox wins four NCAC titles this year and qualifies for Nationals twice

Junior Shannon Fox outran the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) competition this year on the track and off it. For that, Fox is the Women's Yeoathlete of the Year.
In the fall, Fox won the conference cross-country meet, finished ninth in the Regional meet and 65th in the NCAA Division III Nationals. Only one Yeowomen runner has ever done better at Nationals. It was Fox's second trip to Nationals. In 1994, Fox finished 123rd in the nation.
In the spring, Fox won the confernce meet's 3,000-, 5,000- and 10,000-meter races. It was her second year to win the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races at the meet.

In the longest of the races, Fox shattered the record at Papp Stadium in Wooster by more than two minutes and qualified for Nationals, in which she opted not to compete. Her time at the NCAC meet was 37:47.66, about 1:25 faster than the second place finisher.
The day after the 10,000m victory, Fox won the 3,000-meter race in 10:35.40 and the 5,000-meter in 18:32.00.

Runners-up

Junior Bethany Pribila played the No. 1 flight for the women's tennis team all year and made first-team all-NCAC in both singles and doubles.
Pribila went 14-8 overall in singles and 4-2 in conference matches.
With doubles partner senior Helen Kang, Pribila compiled a 17-6 record overall and a 4-3 record in NCAC matches.

Sophomore Katherine Roberts led both the women's soccer and lacrosse teams in points this year.
In both sports, Roberts was far and away the team's assist leader. In soccer, she racked up nine assists and four goals. In lacrosse, she scored 32 goals and dished out 21 assists. In both sports, Roberts made first-team all-NCAC.
Between her two field sports, Roberts ran indoor track. This is the second year in a row Roberts has been a runner-up for Yeoathlete of the Year.

Kelley is OC's all-time Lacrosse scorer and led NCAC in both goals and points

Head Coach Jim Donovan called senior Ryan Kelley "the best lacrosse player I have ever coached." This year Kelley lived up to Donovan's claim and has become the Review's Men's Yeoathlete of the Year.
This year he was first in the NCAC in goals and points and second in assists. He was chosen unanimously for the NCAC's first team as a midfielder. As a junior he was the ninth leading scorer in the country among Division III juniors.
This year he tied with Josh Cantor OC'95 for the most points in a season with 79 and scored the second most goals, 58, behind Cantor's 60. He also set records with the most goals in a career, 155, most points in a career, 236, most ground balls in a season, 165, and most ground balls in a career, 440.

Runners-up

If senior Adam Shoemaker had to follow the profession indicated by his surname, he would have to spend hours crafting enough shoes to keep up with his athletic interests.
This year Shoemaker was named to the all-NCAC first team as a goalkeeper. He had an average save percentage of .80 allowing only 27 goals to his 108 saves. In a game against Allegheny College on Oct. 11 he had 27 saves with only two goals allowed.
After soccer season Shoemaker played football for two weeks while making sporadic appearences on the men's club volleyball team.
Then tennis season started and Shoemaker played the No.1 flight for the men's team all year. He recorded 8-10 overall in singles matches, 4-3 in the conference. In doubles his record was 11-10 overall, 3-4 conference, with partner junior Koji Ebersole.
Sophomore Hugh Finn was the top runner in all of the eight meets the cross country team competed in this season. He earned first-team All-NCAC honors with a second-place finish at the NCAC championships.
At the 1995 NCAA Division II championships he went All-American by placing 20th out of 184 runners.

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