Crusaders Earn Three Landmark Conference Performer of the Week Awards

MADISON, N.J. -- The Landmark Conference honored three Susquehanna University student-athletes with its Performer of the Week awards on Feb. 15.

Junior Christie Savard (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga) earned women's swimming & diving Athlete of the Week honors, while senior Paul Thistle (Blue Bell, Pa./Wissahickon) and junior Alycia Woodruff (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) were the men's and women's track & field Track Performers of the Week.

Savard led Susquehanna to a second-place finish out of seven teams at the 2009-10 Landmark championships from Feb. 12-14. In doing so, she earned the conference's Swimmer of the Year award, seven individual or relay titles, and provisional qualification for the 2009-10 NCAA Division III championships in three different events.

Thistle won the one-mile run at the Susquehanna Indoor Invitational on Feb. 13 with a Landmark-record time of 4 minutes, 16.55 seconds. He topped 63 other runners in that event before placing second out of 58 runners in the 800-meter race with a time of 1:57.17. No collegiate athletes finished better than Thistle in the 800.

Woodruff placed fourth out of 56 athletes in the women's one-mile run at the same meet with a time of 5:21.85.

This marks the second straight week that SU has swept the Landmark's weekly Track awards.