Rebecca Haener wrapped up a solid senior season and career with the Mercyhurst University tennis 
team recently, helping the Lakers to an NCAA Division II tournament berth.

Rebecca Haener

Haener, a Mercyhurst Prep graduate, went 14-8 as the Lakers’ No. 3 singles player and was 16-6 in doubles with partner Courtney Thompson. Haener finished her career 53-32 in singles and  62-28 in doubles.

Read more on Haener in this week’s On Campus notebook.

Also in this week’s notebook, Villa Maria graduate Amy Boxer helped Thiel College win the first-ever Presidents’ Athletic Conference women’s lacrosse tournament title. Also, former Harbor Creek softball player Lauren Stoczynski proved to be a key contributor as a junior first baseman at Westminster College.

Fairview graduate Brit Claridge, a senior cross country runner at Hobart College, recently won the Coach Ron Fleury Cross Country Award for his overall dedication to his academics, the team and community.

Meanwhile, Gannon unveiled its student-athletes of the year this past week and Penn State Behrend’s men’s soccer team prepared for an upcoming nine-day trip to Spain.

Get all the details in On Campus.

Penn State Behrend senior Elliot Blackstone pulled off something this week that’s never been done before in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference — he won his sport’s player of the year award for the fourth straight season.

Here’s what coach Behrend men’s tennis coach Jeff Barger had to say about Blackstone:

“Obviously he’s the best player we’ve ever had at Behrend since I’ve been there, for 13 years. His consistency and hard work paid off for him. A lot of hard work, a lot of effort went into ti, but he was also a great temamate, a great leader on the team.”