Mercyhurst honored a pair of deserving senior athletes — volleyball standout Elyse Texido and basketball star Luis Leao – by recently naming them the Lakers’ Senior 
Female and Male Student-Athletes of the Year, respectively.

Read more about the Lakers’ latest honorees in this week’s On Campus notebook.

Also, the PSAC revealed its final Dixon Trophy standings for the 2012-13 season.

Edinboro took fifth overall and Gannon led all women’s 
teams in the chase for the Dixon Trophy, awarded to the conference’s top athletic program.

West Chester took first place overall in the standings, while the Knights earned a best-ever eighth-place finish and Mercyhurst came in 11th out of 16 teams.

Get a look at the final Dixon Trophy standings in this week’s On Campus notebook.

Mercyhurst women’s volleyball standout Elyse Texido and Luis Leao of the men’s basketball team were named the Lakers’ Senior Female and Male Student-Athletes of the Year, respectively, at the university’s annual Senior Sports Banquet this past weekend.

Elyse Texido

Luis Leao

Texido, a defensive specialist/libero, racked up a school-record 666 digs and was named the PSAC West Defensive Athlete of the Year and All-PSAC first team selection. She helped Mercyhurst go to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009. Texido finished third in program history in digs (1,627) and aces (126).

Leao, a 6-foot 5-inch forward, was the first Lakers’ player ever to be named to the NABC All-American Team. He averaged 18.6 points and 6.7 rebounds per game this past season. Leao also was named PSAC West Athlete of the Year to go along with numerous other accolades.

Leao  finished ninth in program history in scoring (1,221 points).

The Gannon University women’s volleyball team finished 20-12 a year ago and qualified for the Division II postseason for the third straight year. How does this season shape up? Have a look at the sports information department’s preview video:

Missy Soboleski arrived at Edinboro 6 1/2 years ago to take over a women’s volleyball program in a state of flux. The Scots were one year removed from the departure of highly-successful coach Lynn Theehs, who had produced back-to-back 26-win seasons and NCAA appearances before leaving for the University of Maine.

Soboleski inherited a young team that went 13-19 under interim coach Dale Flickinger and, at least initially, fought her on everything from coaching style to strategy. Eventually, Soboleski won out, and the team won 17 of 19 after a 7-12 start.

The end result has been a stretch that includes five NCAA Division II Atlantic Region berths and at least 23 wins in five of her first six seasons.

Soboleski, who played and coached at Gannon and coached at Mercyhurst, recently posted her 300th career win.

She took time out recently to talk to the Erie Times-News about her coaching career and her preparations for Edinboro’s latest playoff push, which begins next week.

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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 the next day for the answer and another Old School athlete photo.

Feb. 15:

Central graduate Chrissy Johnson played volleyball for Thiel College in the mid-1990s.

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