| February 16, 2004
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA . . . The Iowa
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) announced today that
Buena Vista basketball players Katie Maguire (Treynor,
Iowa/Treynor HS) and Scott Weber (Audubon, Iowa/Audubon
HS) were named IIAC Female and Male Athletes of the Week for the
period ending Sunday, February 15.
Maguire, a sophomore guard, averaged 16.0 points,
5.7 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.7 steals per game in three contests
during the week. In a 90-59 victory over Dubuque, she scored 14
points, had five assists, four rebounds (3-1) and two steals. She
scored 12 points to go along with seven rebounds (3-4), three assists
and one steal in a 63-62 victory over Central. Maguire helped Buena
Vista clinched its first Iowa Conference title since 1997 with a
22-point, six-rebound, four-assist, four-steal performance against
Simpson, a 70-60 Beaver victory.
Weber, a senior forward, averaged 22.0 points,
7.0 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game in three contests during the
week in which the Beavers clinched their third straight Iowa Conference
title and fourth in five years. He scored 19 points, including an
11-of-11 performance from the free throw line, in an 83-53 victory
over Dubuque in which he also had five rebounds (1-4) and had two
steals. In a 77-63 victory over Central, he scored 21 points, grabbed
five rebounds (2-3), and had one assist and one steal. Weber scored
26 points, grabbed 11 rebounds (5-6), and had two assists and one
steal in a 112-111 double-overtime loss to Simpson.
The IIAC also announced its Players of the Week
in the Conference’s six sports in competition during the week. Maguire
and Weber earned the weekly honor for women’s and men’s basketball,
while the following individuals were recognized for their athletic
performances.
Men’s Tennis: Coe College
senior Nick Barnes (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/Washington
HS) posted a 4-0 record during the week including two victories
at #1 singles and two victories at #1 doubles. In singles, he posted
identical 6-1, 6-2 victories over Cornell’s Kent Lehr and Luther’s
Marcin Niewiadomski. In doubles, Barnes and partner Adam Elliott
defeated Cornell’s team of Lehr/Tim Clifford and Luther’s team of
Niewiadomski/Adam Strand by matching 8-2 scores. Barnes improved
to 10-0 on the season and has dropped just one set in 10 matches.
Women’s Track & Field: Central
College senior Raegan Schultz (Barnum, Iowa/Manson-NW
Webster HS) won the pentathlon at the Graceland Pentathlon with
3,458 points. She ran the 55-meter hurdles in 8.75, the top time
among the 16 competitors. Her high jump mark of 5-1.25 and long
jump mark of 17-3.5 were the second highest mark in the events.
She recorded a throw of 36-6.5 in the shot put and ran the 800-meters
in 2:31.23. In addition to her performance in the pentathlon, she
competed at Nebraska Wesleyan’s Prairie Wolf Invitational finishing
fifth in the 60-meter hurdles (9.24) and 21st in the 200-meter dash
(26.90).
Men’s Track & Field: Loras
College freshman Geoff Kaiser (Horicon, Wis./Horicon
HS) had three top-five finishes at the Pepsi Challenger hosted by
Carthage College. He won the triple jump and provisionally qualified
for the NCAA Championships with a school record jump of 46-8. Kaiser
ran a 50.4 split on the 4x400 relay team that finished second in
3:23.17, and he ran a personal best time of 8.19 in a fifth-place
finish in the 55-meter hurdles.
Wrestling: Wartburg College
senior Bart Mehlert (LaPorte City, Iowa/Union HS)
improved to 24-0 on the season at 149-pounds with a pin of Buena
Vista’s Andy Dick at 1:14. Mehlert’s victory, his 26th straight
overall, was part of the Knights’ 33-6 win over Buena Vista, giving
Wartburg a school record 27 victories on the season.
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