For the sixth time this season freshman C.J. McCollum has been named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week, it was announced on Monday.  McCollum notched his first career double-double in Lehigh’s win over American this past weekend as he totaled 19 points and a season high 13 rebounds in the Mountain Hawks’ 77-65 victory in the nation’s capital.  With this latest selection, a Lehigh player has been named Rookie of the Week each week since the start of the new year last month.  McCollum has garnered four of those awards, while classmate Gabe Knutson has been honored with two.

Lehighsports.com is excited to present the very first episode of In the Spotlight – the video edition. Throughout the school year, members of the Lehighsports.com team will catch up with student-athletes about life on and off the field of competition, and open up a glimpse of what makes the Lehigh student-athlete a Mountain Hawk. In this episode, Mike Lederer ’10 chats with Adam Welch ’10 of the men’s soccer team, who was recently drafted in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft by the New England Revolution.  

The Lehigh women’s basketball team moved into a first place tie with the American Eagles with a 53-46 win Saturday night at Stabler Arena. The Mountain Hawks were led by a balanced offensive attack and another strong defensive effort as they held the Patriot League’s leading scorer Michelle Kirk to only six points. Lehigh has now won 30 straight home games and improves to 20-3 (7-1) overall. American suffers its first lost in Patriot League play and drops to 14-8 (7-1) on the season.

It took four tries, but the Lehigh men’s tennis team picked up its first win of the spring season with an impressive 6-1 victory over Boston University Saturday afternoon at the Track and Tennis Center. After playing well in a loss to Brown Friday night, Lehigh continued its solid overall play, winning two doubles matches and five of the six singles matches as the Mountain Hawks improve to 1-3 on the spring season.

Lehigh head football coach Andy Coen has announced the addition of 28 student-athletes to the Mountain Hawks program that comprise the Class of 2014.  The incoming group spans nine states including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia and includes student-athletes predicted to contribute at every positional group.  “We’re excited to announce our newest class and to have recruited this newest group of Mountain Hawks,” Coen explained.  “This is the fourth full year of recruiting efforts by our coaching staff and we’re looking forward to bringing this group into the program after cultivating relationships with these young men for the past ten months.”