Three Bears Earn UAA Athlete of the Week Recognition

St. Louis, Mo., May 6, 2008 – Three Washington University student athletes garnered University Athletic Association (UAA) Athlete of the Week honors, as announced Tuesday by the league office. This week’s recipients are junior Kerry Kreitman, of the softball team, freshman Max Woods, of the men’s tennis team, and senior Morgen Leonard-Fleckman, of the women’s track and field team.

The WU softball team played four games last week and was led offensively by Kreitman, who hit .546 (6-for-11), with at least one hit in every game. Her best performance came against top-ranked DePauw University on May 3, when she went 4-for-6 in the doubleheader split, snapping the Tigers’ 37-game win streak in the process. In the Bears’ 1-0 win in game two of the twinbill, Kreitman was 2-for-3 at the plate.

Woods posted a combined 4-0 record in singles and doubles action in Washington University’s two NCAA Tournament victories last week as the Bears advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Championship. He won, 6-1, 6-1, at fourth singles and teamed with Isaac Stein for an 8-4 win at third doubles in a 5-1 win over Grinnell College. Woods and Stein also won in third doubles, 8-2, in a WU 6-0 over DePauw University, and he was also a 6-1, 6-0, winner in singles action.

Leonard-Fleckman cleared a NCAA Division III Championship pole vault provisional qualifying height once again, winning the event at the Butler Twilight Meet in Indianapolis, Ind., on May 3. She tied with a competitor from Monmouth College, as both cleared 3.70 meters, but Leonard-Fleckman had fewer misses at the winning height.