Seven Lehigh student-athletes were recently recognized as recipients of the 2009 Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sports Scholar Award.  The seven winners included Roxy Jahangeri (women’s soccer), Quadir Carter (football), Anne Rodriguez (women’s swimming), Marquis Hall (men’s basketball), Jillian Randolph (women’s track and field), Evans Kosgei (men’s track and field), and Shannon Alejandro (women’s track and field).  Hall, Rodriguez and Randolph were First-Team selections, while Carter and Kosgei earned Second-Team recognition, Jahangeri earned a spot on the Third-Team, and Alejandro was an Honorable Mention selection.  The seven selections are the most Lehigh has ever had.

The Lehigh women’s soccer team recently put the finishing touches on a successful spring campaign, which culminated in the program’s annual Alumni Game on Saturday April 18. The spring season also featured five scrimmages as the Mountain Hawks worked towards improving on last year’s 6-10-1 campaign and working towards getting back to the Patriot League tournament, following a two-year absence, in 2009.

The Lehigh women’s soccer program will host a pair of spring clinics, a Striker-Keeper clinic scheduled for Sunday, April 5, and a Spring ID clinic, slated for Sunday, April 26. Both clinics run from 9:00am - 3:15 pm and are open to high school girls in grades 9-12. The clinics will run under the direction of Lehigh head coach Manny Oudin, assistant coaches Erin Iwaskiewicz and Amanda Brown and members of the Mountain Hawks women’s soccer team.

Lehigh head coach Manny Oudin has announced the addition of six student-athletes who will join the Mountain Hawks women’s soccer program in the fall. The class of 2013 is smaller than the recruiting classes of the previous two seasons, but Oudin is excited about the talent in this class and believes this is a group that can make immediate contributions.

Lehigh junior Natalie Hojnacki was one of nine Patriot League women’s soccer student-athletes to earn a 4.0 grade point average in the fall semester, leading a group of nine Mountain Hawks who were named to the league’s Academic Honor Roll on Thursday. To be eligible for the honor roll, a student-athlete must obtain a 3.2 GPA and be awarded a varsity letter in his or her sport. The criteria for awarding varsity letters are different among the Patriot League institutions.