The Albright women’s swim team won its second consecutive MAC Championship, the sixth in seven years for the Lady Lions.

The team finished the meet with 723 points, comfortably ahead of second-place Scranton, who totaled 638.

Rachel Cantwell ’08 won the David B. Eavenson Outstanding Swimmer award for the second consecutive year after winning three individual titles and swimming on four championship relay teams.

The Lady Lions also crowned eight individual champions - Cantwell in the 200 IM, 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke; Erin Jagielski ’07 in the 100 and 200 free; Cheyenne Gehman ’08 in the 100 and 200 fly; and Adrienne Peoples ’09 in the 1,650 free.

The men’s team, who also had an excellent year, placed second.

Coach John Stuhltrager said of his teams: “Both teams swam very well. I could not be more proud of them. The women jumped out to a 75 point lead the first day and refused to let Scranton back into the meet. The team worked hard all year and were rewarded with great swims and another MAC championship.”

The men’s basketball team captured the ECAC South Region Tournament Champion-ship in March with a 92-72 win over Pitt-Greensburg at Keystone College. The Lions finished the season with a 19-9 record.

Men’s basketball players Trevor Deeter ’06 and Matt Kieselowsky ’07 were named to the Commonwealth Conference All-Conference teams. Deeter, forward, was named to the All-Conference First-Team while Kieselowsky, point guard, was named to the All-Conference Second-Team.

For the women, Annie McMahon ’09 was named Commonwealth Conference Freshman of the Year, and also named to the All-Conference Second-Team.

This is the third straight year that Deeter has earned First-Team honors. For his career, he has scored 1,669 points, placing him eighth on Albright’s career scoring list. He has also pulled down 942 career rebounds, the second-highest total in school history.

With 338 assists in his career, Kieselowsky already ranks third on the all-time assist list at Albright, and his 4.28 assists per game is the second-highest career total in school history.

Chosen as one of only 200 recipients from more than 1,000 applications, Maxine Lodato ’09
has been named a Gates Millennium Scholar (GMS).

Lodato is a psychobiology major from Bristol, Pa.

The GMS award, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provides outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education, in all discipline areas and a graduate education for those students pursuing studies in mathematics, science, engineering, education or library science.

“It feels good to know that I’m someone in a minority who’s going to be able to make changes in the world that most only dream of,” she said.

And Lodato has many dreams.

Following graduation from Albright she would like to enter the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps for a year, then go to graduate school and finally have a career in pharmaceuticals creating medications for the brain. “If I can’t change the world I can at least help one person,” she said.

“We are so proud of Maxine,” said President Lex McMillan. “She’s a shining example of the caliber of students we have here at Albright.”

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation established the initiative in 1999 to encourage and support students to complete college and continue on to earn master’s and doctoral degrees in disciplines in which their ethnic and racial groups are currently underrepresented.

The Gates Millennium Scholars award helps young Americans to prepare to assume important roles as leaders in their professions and in their communities.