The winter 2006-07 season is coming to a close and, with it, a couple of collegiate careers.

Catherine Maher of Newtown – a graduate of St. Margaret’s-McTernan School in Waterbury (the alltime leading scorer in Waterbury history) – finished up her collegiate career at Trinity College as the Lady Bantams were stopped by Bowdoin College in the quarterfinals of the NESCAC Tournament.

Here is what she and other NHS alumni have been up to recently …

Catherine Maher (Trinity College women’s basketball) – The top-seeded Bowdoin College Polar Bears survived a scare from the eighth-seeded Trinity College Bantams in the NESCAC quarterfinals. The Polar Bears (24-1), winners by a 61-50 count, moved on to the semifinals to face the winner of Wesleyan and Williams while Trinity closed out its season at 12-12. Maher canned 12 points in the loss, shooting 2-of-5 from three-point land. The senior played and started all 24 games for the Bantams, finishing with 189 points (7.9 per game) along with a team-high 28 three-pointers, 43 rebounds, 59 assists, a block, and 21 steals. She finished her Trinity career with 871 points.

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Carol Ann Smith (Eastern Connecticut State University women’s swimming & diving team) – Freshman Carol Ann Smith, a key component in two South-West Conference championships, one CIAC Class L state championship, and a 33-dual meet unbeaten streak while at Newtown High School, is already making an impact at Eastern Connecticut State University. At the New England Swimming and Diving Championships last weekend at the University of New Hampshire, Smith was one leg of ECSU’s 400 medley relay team which broke a university record with a finish of 4:27.45 (a .44 improvement off the old record, set at the New Englands last year). The relay finished 10th in the event as ECSU finished 15th overall among 22 institutions which scored points. ECSU was 6-4-1 in dual meet competition this year.

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Tierney Carey (St. Michael’s College swimming & diving) – Sophomore Tierney Carey finished 12th in the one-meter diving at 284.70 points (a little over 50 points off the lead) and finished 13th in the three-meter diving at 243.25 points as the Purple Knights closed out the 2006-07 season at the New England Regionals last weekend at the University of New Hampshire.

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Kacy Foehrenbach (Keene State women’s basketball) – The freshman appeared in 11 games for the 19-5 Lady Owls, averaging 4.8 minutes a game. She knocked down three baskets on the season while grabbing three rebounds, dishing off three assists, and making one steal. The Owls opened the Little East Conference tournament this week versus Plymouth State.

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Tim Lux (Middlebury College swimming & diving) – Lux was sixth in the 500-yard freestyle at 5:00.04 and ninth in the 200-yard individual medley at 2:04.70 to lead Middlebury College in the non-scoring M.I.T. Invitational back on February 2. Lux also helped lead the 400 freestyle ‘B’ relay to a sixth-place finish and the 200-yard freestyle ‘B’ relay to a seventh-place finish. Middlebury will be heading to the NESCAC championships this weekend.

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Abby Atkinson (Bucknell University swimming & diving) – The freshman finished ninth in the 100-yard backstroke in 59.50 to lead the Lady Bisons at the Patriot League championships last weekend. Atkinson also finished 10th in the 200 backstroke at 2:08.59 and 13th in the 200 individual medley to lead the Bisons to a second-place finish behind Navy.

Kelly Collier (Northeastern University women’s lacrosse) – Collier, a starting center as a sophomore last spring for the women’s lacrosse team, earned a spot on the Dean’s List for the fall 2006 semester. Kelly also was starting center on Northeastern’s Women’s Lacrosse team. Collier recently transferred to the University of Montana in Missoula to further pursue an Environmental Science degree.

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CJ Maurer (St. Bonaventure University swimming & diving) – The St. Bonaventure men’s swimming and diving team took first in six events en route to a 129-114 win over the University at Buffalo to end the regular season on February 1. On the boards, junior CJ Mauer notched 243 points in the one-meter competition and placed second as the Bonnies finished their regular season with a 5-5 record. They will be competing at the Atlantic 10 Conference Championships this weekend at the Flickinger Aquatic Center in Buffalo, New York.

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Kyle Tyll (Sacred Heart University ice hockey) – With two games left in the regular season, the Pioneers have posted a 19-9-4 overall record, 16-6-4 in the Atlantic Hockey Conference. Tyll, a sophomore and graduate of Trinity-Pawling, has five goals and three assists on the year … two of those goals coming while the Pioneers were shorthanded.

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Christine Manfredonia (Misericordia College women’s cross country) – Has been named to the PAC All-Academic team for the 2006 fall semester. Manfredonia is an Elementary Education major who maintained at least a 3.2 GPA.

 

 

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