Madison Wojciechowski, a senior libero on the Penn women’s volleyball team, was honored as a second-team selection to the ESPN Academic All-District team. She was named to the All-Ivy League Academic team last season. The former Marymount High and Sports Shack club standout is enjoying the finest season in her collegiate career. She is ranked second in the nation in digs per set with an average of 5.84. On Senior Night last Saturday she broke the Ivy League record for digs in the Quakers’ 25-20, 25-10, 25-17 victory over Cornell. Wojciechowski already owns the school record for career, single-season and single-match dig marks. Penn senior setter Megan Tryon was also Wojciechowski’s teammate at Marymount. Penn has won nine of its last 10 matches and closes Ivy League play with road matches at Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton. Former Brentwood School All-CIF selection Drew Hargrave, now a sophomore outside hitter at Washington University in St. Louis, was named 2010 All-University Athletic Association honorable mention. Hargrave, a first-time all-UAA honoree, has dominated on the outside all season for the Bears. She ranks second on the team with a .322 hitting percentage and third with 334 kills, an average of 3.15 per set, the eighth-best mark in the UAA. She has reached double-digit kills on 16 occasions this year, and notched a career-best 18 kills October 30 against Hanover College. Hayley Lemoine, a freshman on the Vassar College women’s swimming and diving team, won Liberty League Rookie of the Week honors last Saturday, earning points in every event she competed in and leading the Brewers to a 162-120 victory over Skidmore College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Lemoine, a 2010 graduate of she finished first in the 100 yard freestyle, second in the 200 yard freestyle, and fourth in the 50 freestyle. She also contributed to the fastest 400 freestyle relay team that finished in 3:53.24. This is her first such award. As a four year letter winner for Palisades Charter High School (CA), Lemoine helped her team to four LA City Championships. She was named MVP and finished second in the league in the 200 yard IM and third in the 100 yard freestyle. Senior Kai Forbath was named the Pac-10 Special Teams Player of the Week after booting a 51-yard field goal as time expired to lift UCLA to a 17-14 victory over Oregon State at the Rose Bowl. After missing two field goals earlier in the game, Forbath kicked his game-winner right down the middle–his 10th career field goal from 50 or more yards. Forbath was instrumental in Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High’s run to three CIF championships and a 35-1 record in his four years. Born in Santa Monica and raised in Pacific Palisades, he was college football’s Lou Groza Award last season. Tamar Springer, a student at Gerry Blanck’s Martial Arts Center, kicked her way to three trophies two weeks ago at the 31st annual Yoshukai Karate National Championships in Dothan, Alabama. Springer, who has been practicing karate for one and a half years, has won numerous awards at local tournaments and was encouraged by Sensei Blanck to compete at the National Championships. She did, and she took second place in musical forms, where she competed against men and women of all ages, brown belt and under. Then, Springer took first place in her favorite event, forms, in the green belt adult division (men and women). Even though Springer had never sparred in a tournament, Blanck insisted that she compete in sparring (fighting) since she had traveled so far. Once again, her Sensei’s faith was rewarded as she ended up taking first place in the adult women green belt division. Finishing second in the adult green belt men’s sparring division was Palisadian Michael Hoff.
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