Men’s Soccer Looking for
Third Straight NEC Title
St. Francis Sweeps Scholar
Athlete of the Year Honors
T
he St. Francis Brooklyn Men’s Soccer Team has begun its
drive for a third straight NEC Championship after defeating
Saint Francis University (Loretto, PA) 2-1 in an overtime victory
to cap the 2014 season.
With a returning core of stellar players, including Vincent Bezecourt
’16, midfielder Cyril Coisne ’16, and goalkeeper Jack Binks ’16, wh o
all made last year’s All-Tournament Team, the Terriers hope to complete
the trifecta and tie for the most conference titles at seven.
Defender Andy Cormack ’15, the NEC Tournament’s Most Valuable
Player, scored the golden goal on a free kick. Remarkably, the captain
also scored the golden goal via a free kick in last year’s championship
game over Bryant. ●
The Men’s Soccer Team after its NEC Championship victory.
Terriers Answer Call to Service
W
e call them Student Athletes for a reason and Katie Fox ’15
(Women’s Basketball) and David Lönnberg ’15 (Men’s Water
Polo, Swimming) are two of the best. Both finished their academic careers at St. Francis College with a perfect 4.0 grade point
average and both were honored with the 2014-15 Northeast
Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, the first time students
from a single college swept the male and female awards.
Fox, an English and History double major, was a member of the Duns
Scotus Honor Society and earned a post-graduate Victory Scholarship
that means she’ll play professional basketball in Ireland for one year
while going to graduate school at the Waterford Institute of Technology.
On the court, Fox was a three-time co-captain who started all 3 4
games this past season as point guard and helped engineer the team’s
amazing run in the NCAA tournament. In the NEC championship win
over Robert Morris, she played all 4 0 minutes and finished with six
assists and zero turnovers. As a junior, Fox was named to the NACDA
I-AAA Scholar Athlete team. She finished her career with 350 assists
to rank seventh all-time at St. Francis.
Lönnberg double majored in Political Science and Economics/
International Economics and was President of the Duns Scotus Honor
Society. He was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, the only
water polo player to earn that award this year.
In the pool, Lönnberg helped the Terriers Men’s Water Polo team
make it to back-to-back NCAA Division I Final Four championships.
Each time, he also earned the Elite 89 award for highest GPA for a
participating player. On the swim team, Lönnberg participated in the
1,0 0 0 freestyle, 50 butterfly, and 10 0 butterfly. ●
F
rom the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers 5K (Women’s Bowling) to
the Swish for Kids Cancer Awareness Classic (Men’s Basketball),
St. Francis’ student athletes were out in the community all year.
In fact, their commitment to volunteerism earned the College the Northeast
Conference Building Communities Award for having the highest percentage
of athletes performing community service in the conference.
Other activities included working at a homeless shelter (Women’s
Tennis), helping Wounded Warriors (Men’s Water Polo), and supporting
the New York City Marathon (the entire athletic department).
“Our student athletes and coaches did an outstanding job demonstrating
who we really are, and living by the Franciscan Way,” said Director of
Athletics Irma Garcia ’80. ●
David Lönnberg ’15.
New Men’s Water Polo Coach Brings Olympic
Experience to Brooklyn Heights
Student
Athletes
setting up
a water
station for
the New
York City
Marathon.
Women’s Volleyball
Katie Fox ’15.
F
Sophomore Brooke
Haliscak ’18 is one
of several young
players leading a
turnaround on the
volleyball court.
ormer Olympian Igor Zagoruiko will be calling the
shots for the Men’s Water Polo Team this year.
Zagoruiko has years of experience in the water
and on the pool deck. He played on the Kazakhstan
National Team at the 20 0 0 and 20 0 4 Summer
Olympics. His team also won the gold medal in the
19 94 and 19 98 Asian Games and took the bronze
Igor Zagoruiko.
in the 19 95 World Military Games.
As coach, Zagoruiko was an assistant for the
Kazakhstan National Team for three years. He also coached club teams
to British and Turkish Championships before coming to New York.
“It’s an honor for me to become a part of the St. Francis Water Polo
Program,” Zagoruiko said. “We have plans to build strong fundamentals
and continue developing an unwavering commitment to the team.”
Zagoruiko takes over from Srdjan Mihaljevic ’01 who resigned after
two years as Head Coach. His tenure included one trip to the NCAA
Final Four. ●
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