Iroquois graduate Becky Zill finished her college softball career in memorable fashion.

Becky Zill

Niagara University catcher hit a walk-off home run in her team’s regular-season finale. She finished her four-year career with 26 homers for the Purple Eagles, who finished the season going 1-2 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament.

Read about Zill’s accomplishments in this week’s On Campus notebook.

Also this week, find out about Edinboro senior guard Kiara Brown claiming another honor to add to her standout basketball career for the Fighting Scots.

The two-time All-American will have her No. 12 jersey placed on display at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn. The jersey will hang in the Hall’s Ring of Honor display alongside jerseys of high school and college All-Americans from around the nation.

Also, Cathedral Prep graduate Tommy Steele and Iroquois grad Rachael Ragen earned the Most Improved Award for their respective University at Buffalo men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams.

Read more in the On Campus notebook.

Kiara Brown’s No. 12 jersey will hang in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame “Ring of Honor.”

Edinboro’s Gary Kagiavas has been a driving force in the success of the Fighting Scots’ women’s soccer team. The longtime coach, who took the helm when the program began in 1996, has led Edinboro to three straight appearances in the PSAC playoffs and consecutive NCAA Division II tournament berths.

Gary Kagiavas

Kagiavas earned a distinct honor Saturday night as he was named the Scots’ coach of the year at Edinboro’s Hall of Fame ceremony.In today’s Erie Times-News On Campus notebook, read more about Kagiavas and the Edinboro athletes of the year – basketball standout Kiara Brown and football player Branden Williams.

Also in today’s notes, read about former District 10 baseball players excelling for Westminster College. Senior Nick Grow (North East) set the Titans’ career saves mark last week, while senior starter Andy Wallen (Iroquois) and outfielder Kyle Allen (West Middlesex) are producing solid numbers.

In addition, check out notes on Lehigh University sophomore golfer Kelly Moylan (North East), Thiel sophomore tennis player Collin McAndrew (General McLane) and Buffalo swimmer Rachael Ragen (Iroquois). All three performed well recently in conference championships in their respective sports.

Read about all of that and more in the Times-News On Campus notebook.

Joseph Stark

Cathedral Prep graduate Joseph Stark was featured in the On Campus notebook in today’s Erie Times-News.

Stark, a former District 10 swimming star, has been a standout in the pool with the U.S. Naval Academy. He’s not the only one in his family who’s at the Naval Academy either.

Also featured in the notebook are Fairview grads Derick Fiedler and Lauren Morosky.

Read the On Campus notebook in the Times-News every Sunday.

Today’s On Campus notebook in the Erie Times-News features items on Harbor Creek graduate Jessica Zoltowski, General McLane grad Sarah Hansen, Fairview grad Carolyn Eckendorf and Corry grad Eric Fairchild, among others.

Today’s On Campus college notebook in the Erie Times-News featured items on athletes previously posted on the On Campus blog, such as Steffanie Smith-Jasper, Patrick Cochran, Kirsten Olowinski, Emma Swabb and Julia Adams.

However, today’s notebook also features items on Strong Vincent graduate Shataya White and Gannon’s new junior varsity baseball program.

Emma Swabb

McDowell graduate Emma Swabb, a freshman at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., was named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference rookie of the year at the ODAC championships recently.

Swabb set Washington and Lee records in the 200-yard individual medley (2 minutes, 9.93 seconds) and 400 IM (4:40.25) during the meet. She also swam on the 200 freestyle relay, which set school and conference records with a time of 1:37.15. Swabb turned in a 24.61 split. She also was a member of the winning 400 medley relay team and placed second in the 200 breaststroke.

Swabb also earned two earlier honors. She was named ODAC swimmer of the week Dec. 2 after turning in five first-place finishes at the Randolph-Macon Invitational in Richmond, Va.

In addition, she earned a Scholar-Athlete Award from Washington and Lee after finishing with a 3.92 grade-point average in the fall. She is a political science and pre-law major.

Swabb was a 12-time District 10 Class AAA champion at McDowell.

Julia Adams

Northwest Collegiate Academy graduate Julia Adams, a senior at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, was named the Ohio Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Month for February.The award covers every athlete in the conference in every sport. The senior has a 3.42 grade-point average, including 3.7 within her marketing/logistics major.

Adams was a two-time OAC swimmer of the year entering the Ohio Athletic Conference championship, which takes place today through Saturday at Wilmington College in Akron, Ohio. She was the defending champion in the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 200 individual medley.

John Carroll’s website recently posted a story about Adams and her career.

Her sister, sophomore Karyn Adams, also swims for John Carroll. She is a Collegiate Academy grad, too.

Every Sunday the Erie Times-News publishes the On Campus notebook, which helps area readers catch up with local high school stars who have taken their games to the college level.

Last Sunday’s On Campus notebook featured items on former Fairview divers Danny Roberts, now with Cleveland State, and Carolyn Eckendof, now with Grove City College. Harbor Creek grad Jessica Zoltowski, an Elmira basketball player, was also featured, along with three former area standouts who now play women’s basketball for LeMoyne. Find out who else we mentioned. Check out the link above.

The Jan. 20 On Campus notebook took a look at Girard native Curt Miller and his affect on the Indiana women’s basketball program. George Washington gymnast Stephanie Stoicovy and Buffalo swimmers Tommy Steele and Rachael Ragen also were featured. We caught up with other athletes as well.

Look for another On Campus in tomorrow’s Erie Times-News.

How Erie-area high school graduates are faring in college swimming:

1. Morgan Anderson (Fairview) helped Purchase College win the Skyline Conference championship with a second-team all-conference finish in the 400 freestyle relay.
2. Brittany DiSanti (Harbor Creek) was 17th in 3-meter dive preliminaries and 24th on the 1-meter board for Pittsburgh at the Big East championships.
3. Joe Glowacki (Cathedral Prep) was fifth for Connecticut in the 200 butterfly consolations at the Big East championships.
4. Kelsey Herbst (McDowell) helped Pitt finish fifth in the 400 freestyle relay at the Big East championships. She also was sixth in the 1,650 freestyle.
5. John Hill (Cathedral Prep) was second in the 200 freestyle in Dartmouth’s 161-138 loss to Columbia.
6. Kaitlyn Karl (McDowell) of Seton Hall was 33rd in the 1-meter preliminary dive at the Big East championships.
7. Joseph Stark (Cathedral Prep) helped Navy clinch its eighth straight Patriot League championship with a fourth-place finish in the 200 backstroke.
8. Check out the former Erie swimmers who made the all-Presidents’ Athletic Conference teams: Grove City’s Cam Coppelli (Saegertown) and Eric Fairchild (Corry); Washington & Jefferson’s Andy Rish (Cathedral Prep); and Westminster’s Ryan Taylor (Fairview) and Erin Erdley (Cochranton).
9. Julia Adams and Megan Carrig helped John Carroll continue a string of top-three finishes at the Ohio Athletic Conference championships that started in 1990.

Adams, a sophomore who attended Collegiate Academy, set three OAC records and made three NCAA Division III provisional qualifying standards. She was named OAC women’s swimmer of the year.

Adams erased her own 200 backstroke conference record — by more than 3 seconds — in the preliminaries in 2:07.17. Then she beat her new record by nearly a second to win the event title in 2:06.27.

Adams also won the 200 IM and 100 backstroke, and was on the third-place 200 freestyle relay, the second-place 400 medley relay, the second-place 800 freestyle relay, the third-place 400 freestyle relay. She also was part of the second-place 200 medley time trial team for JCU.

Carrig finished seventh in the 1,650 free, eighth in the 400 IM and swam the preliminaries in the 500 free and 400 IM.

How it works: Every day we’ll post a photo of a former college athlete from the Erie Times-News archive. You guess who it is, then check back Monday for the answer and another Old School athlete photo.

Feb. 17:

Cathedral Prep graduate Willie Drexler swam and ran cross country at the College of Wooster in the mid-1990s.

Today’s Old School Athlete: