Lehigh head coach Jenny Maurer announced the Mountain Hawks volleyball class of 2013 on Thursday, which includes three incoming student-athletes.  The list includes Margy Acton, a defensive specialist from Elmhurst, Illinois, Taylor Poole, a middle hitter from Keller, Texas, and Manon Palandjian, a hitter from Boston, Massachusetts.

The Patriot League announced the 2009 women’s rowing Academic Honor Roll on Wednesday and Lehigh placed 16 student-athletes on the list led by freshman Jacqueline Ogden’s 3.91 grade point average.  In all 95 women’s rowing student-athletes from around the league were named to the honor roll, including Navy’s Kerry Hannon who was named the league’s Scholar Athlete of the Year in April.

Four Mountain Hawks were named to the 2009 Patriot League Academic Honor Roll led by senior Will Robinson’s 3.82 grade point average, it was announced on Wednesday.  To be eligible for the honor roll, a student-athlete must obtain a GPA of 3.2 or better and earn a varsity letter in his or her sport.

The first of two weeks of Lehigh swim camp began on Saturday inside Lehigh’s Jacobs and Morrrissey Pools. On Monday, campers were treated to an appearance by former Olympic Champion Rowdy Gaines, who made his annual trek to Lehigh’s camp. Gaines captured three gold medals at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and has been instructing young swimmers at Lehigh’s swim camps for the last 13 years.

Last month Lisa Sweeney put the finishing touches on one of the finest careers in Lehigh and Patriot League history. This week, Sweeney will be showcased on the national level when she appears in Sports Illustrated as one of six athletes highlighted in the publication’s “Faces in the Crowd” section in the issue dated June 22, 2009.