Spring Academic All-CC Team

LANCASTER, Pa. – Eight Gettysburg College student-athletes have been honored as members of the Spring Academic All-Centennial Conference (CC) Team, it was recently announced.
 
Senior Luke Lawrence (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East)  of the baseball team; junior Jamie Abell (Glenn Dale, Md./Elizabeth Seton) and sophomore Aileen Reilly (Huntington, N.Y./St. Anthony's) of the softball team; junior Sarah Hansen (Cumberland, Maine/Greely) of the women's golf team; junior Laura Gradiska (Los Altos, Calif./Menlo School) of the women's tennis team; senior Jackson Davis (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) of the men's outdoor track and field team; and seniors Katie Cavanaugh (East Rockaway, N.Y./Kellenberg) and Katie McCoubrie (Malvern, Pa./Conestoga) of the women's outdoor track and field team all received the award.
 
The Academic All-Centennial Team recognizes individuals who have been named to their respective all-conference teams while also being included on the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll.
 
Lawrence collected All-CC Honorable Mention, and he was also named the conference's Baseball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. After serving as a relief pitcher over his first three years with the Bullets, earning first-team all-conference honors as a sophomore, Lawrence made a smooth transition to the outfield. The team's leadoff hitter for much of the season, he started the year on a tear, going 12-for-16 over his first four games. He ended up batting .327 and tied for the team lead in stolen bases (seven). He also scored 34 runs and roped six doubles, two triples, and one home run. Primarily playing centerfield, Lawrence committed just two errors for the season and had one outfield assist.
 
Abell earned First Team All-Centennial Conference and CC Player of the Year status. As the team's lead-off hitter, she finished 10th in the conference with a .359 batting average. Abell ranked among the top five in the conference in at bats (3rd, 142), runs (5th, 33), hits (4th, 51), doubles (3rd, 12), triples (1st, 5), RBI (2nd, 32), and total bases (2nd, 82).  She also set personal bests with three home runs and a slugging percentage of .577. Abell had a career-long 17-game hitting streak midseason and she went 5-for-7 with three runs and three RBI in a sweep of eventual Centennial champion Haverford College during the regular season.
 
Abell, who is Gettysburg's sixth CC Player of the Year and was the CC Rookie of the Year in 2014, already ranks among the program's all-time top 10 in stolen bases (5th, 32), runs scored (6th, 114), doubles (t-6th, 29), batting average (7th, .389), hits (9th, 159), and RBI (t-9th, 84).
 
Reilly also captured First Team All-CC recognition. She paced the conference in games started (22), wins (16), complete games (18), shutouts (4), innings pitched (146.2), and strikeouts (112). Reilly went 16-7 overall on the year with a 2.15 ERA and held opposing hitters to a .253 batting average. A two-time CC Pitcher of the Week this spring, Reilly did not allow an earned run and struck out seven in 11 innings of work during a sweep of Haverford. She also turned in a three-hit shutout against Ursinus College.
 
Through her first two seasons at Gettysburg, the sophomore hurler has accrued a record of 33-11 with an ERA of 1.81 and 220 strikeouts over 290.1 innings.
 
Hansen was named First Team All-Centennial Conference and CC Player of the Year by virtue of her first-place finish at the conference championship held at the Foxchase Golf Club April 23-24. She took the lead with an 82 on the opening day and finished with an 80 to win the event by three strokes. She was also tagged the program's second CC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
 
It was banner year all-around for Hansen, who finished second on the team and in the conference with a scoring average of 82.7 – four strokes better than her current career average. Including conferences, she won three events and finished in the top five in all but one. At the NCAA Division III Championship, she tied for 50th among 109 competitors, helping the Bullets place 17th in the team standings.
 
Gradiska earned All-CC Honorable Mention status after leading the team with 19 total wins, going 11-5 in singles play and 8-8 in doubles. She was the team's top performer in singles action and competed at each of the top two flights. Gradiska went 2-2 at No. 1 and 9-3 at No. 2. In conference competition, the junior logged a record of 6-4. She is the first Gettysburg player to record at least 11 victories in three consecutive seasons in 19 years.
 
A team captain this season, Gradiska played all of her doubles matches at the top flight. She teamed most often with freshman Maria Martinovic (Lawrence Township, N.J./Princeton Day School) as the duo posted an 8-6 overall record and a 5-3 mark against Centennial opposition. In three seasons at Gettysburg, Gradiska has racked up 57 victories, has logged a 33-19 singles record, and sits just two wins shy of cracking the program's top 10.
 
Davis also landed All-Centennial Conference Honorable Mention in honor of his third-place performance in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the outdoor conference meet. He raced to a season-best time of 9:32.45, which was also the third-best mark of his career. Davis registered an outstanding double at the conference meet, racing to a sixth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run with a season-best time of 15:17.28 – just four seconds shy of his personal record – one day after running the steeple. He finishes his career ranked second in school history in the steeplechase (9:21.94), fifth in the outdoor 5K (15:13.02), and sixth in the indoor 5K (15:49.91).
 
Cavanaugh was named First Team All-Centennial Conference in honor of her performance at the outdoor conference meet. She earned two individual victories, including a record-breaking performance in the 100-meter hurdles. With a time of 14.04 seconds, she lowered her own school and Centennial Conference record by 0.18 seconds while establishing a new meet record, surpassing the former mark of 14.42 set by Aislinn Sowash of Haverford College in 2006. Cavanaugh also won the long jump, giving her six career Centennial Conference titles and 12 CC individual medals.
 
In addition to her outdoor school record in the 100-hurdles, Cavanaugh owns indoor marks in the 60-meter hurdles (8.77), the 55-meter hurdles (8.30), and the 60-meter dash (7.99). She is currently ranked fourth in Division III in the 100-hurdles.
 
Also a First Team All-CC honoree, McCoubrie bettered her own meet record in the triple jump, leaping 38-3 1/2 to win the event at the CC outdoor meet for the third year in a row and for the sixth-straight time at the indoor or outdoor championship. She finishes with an impressive 12 career Centennial Conference titles. McCoubrie also scored in the long jump at the 2016 outdoor meet, placing fourth.
 
McCoubrie ranks second in outdoor school history in the triple jump (38-3 1/2) and fourth in the long jump (18-1). Indoors, she holds the school record in the triple jump (38-2) and ranks second in the long jump (17-9).