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Aerial photographs of the Cornell University campus on Saturday, May 18, 2019. Photo credit: Eldon Lindsay Photography.
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Cornell Athletics Presents 2022 Awards At Senior Banquet

5/26/2022 9:00:00 AM

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell seniors Lindsay Browning, Beatrice Juškeviciute, Hunter Nourzad and John Piatelli took home the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award on Tuesday evening during the school's Senior Banquet and Awards Show. Khary Pryce and the late Jack Robinson earned the Ronald P. Lynch Senior Spirit Award, given to student-athletes whose leadership on and off the field model the ideals of the Big Red athletics department. Kyle Betts was recognized with the Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Leadership Award for embodying leadership, athleticism and a strong work ethic.

Below are bios of each of the nine award winners:

Kyle Betts, Men's Ice Hockey
• Named the 2021 ECAC Hockey Student-Athlete of the Year.
• Two-year captain.
• Four-time ECAC Hockey All-Academic team selection.
• Was a teacher's assistant in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• Volunteered in countless endeavors, including the coaches vs. cancer events, a mentor program in the Newfield school district, and a mission trip to the Dominican Republic that saw him bring the idea forward to provide a water filtration project which then purchase and delivered to a very impoverished area in the country.
• Concluded his collegiate career with a career-high 18 points on six goals and 12 assists while playing all 32 of the Big Red's games as a senior.
• While accumulating 48 points with 17 goals and 31 assists in 125 collegiate games, he built a reputation as one of the league's top shutdown centers against the opposition's top forward combinations.
• Second-team All-Ivy League as a senior.

Lindsay Browning, Women's Ice Hockey
• Set Cornell career records for lowest goals against average (1.50) and save percentage (.937).
• Posted 18 career shutouts, tied for second-most in program history.
• Named a second-team All-American in 2020 when she was both the Ivy League Player of the Year and the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Year.
• Named a Top 10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Award as a junior.
• Two-time All-ECAC Hockey team selection, with first team honors in 2020 and second team accolades in 2022.
• Also earned All-Ivy honors twice with a first team pick in 2020 and an honorable mention selection in 2022.
• Posted a career record of 45-17-7, including a 28-2-3 record in 2019-20 when the Big Red was ranked No. 1 in the country prior to the COVID-19 outbreak canceling its season.

Beatrice Juškeviciute, Women's Track & Field
• Three-time All-American in the multi-events (2019 honorable mention outdoor heptathlon; 2021 first team outdoor heptathlon; 2022 second team indoor pentathlon).
• Undefeated for her career in Ivy League pentathlon/heptathlon competition.
• School record holder in both events.
• Ivy League Heptagonal meet record holder in the outdoor heptathlon.
• Ranks in Cornell's all-time top 10 in the javelin, 60m hurdles, 100 hurdles and the shot put.
• Made the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championship and earned All-America honors despite competing in just one other meet due to the global pandemic.
• Team captain.
• Will compete at Vanderbilt as a graduate transfer.

Hunter Nourzad, Football
• Second-team AFCA and third-team Phil Steele All-America selection.
• Named Ivy League Offensive Lineman of the Year by Phil Steele.
• Two-time All-Ivy selection, garnering first-team accolades in 2021 after being named second team in 2019.
• Started 20 consecutive games at right tackle.
• Anchored an offensive line that led the Ivy League and ranked fifth nationally in fewest sacks allowed, breaking the school record of 17 in a season by nearly cutting it in half (nine).
• Was a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, college football's Academic Heisman Trophy.
• Academic All-Ivy League selection.
• Will play at Penn State as a graduate transfer.

John Piatelli, Men's Lacrosse
• Finalist for the Senior CLASS Award.
• Two-time member of the final Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List.
• He is a first-team All-Ivy and honorable mention All-America selection in 2002 after leading the Ancient Eight in goals (60) and ranking first nationally in goals per game (3.53).
• His 60 goals rank fourth in a single season and he's five shy of a 46-year-old school record of 65 set by Mike French in 1976,
• Guided the Big Red to its first Ivy title since 2015 and its first trip to the NCAA semifinals since 2013.
• Honorable mention All-American in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.
• Ranks fourth all-time at Cornell with 142 goals and sixth with 188 points for his career.

Khary Pryce, Women's Tennis
• Four-year member of the Cornell women's tennis team.
• Co-President of SAAC (Student-Athlete Advisory Committee) where she was the main liaison between 1200+ student-athletes, the athletics administration, and the Ivy League.
• TA for the BRLI Cohort where she empowers Cornell student-athletes to confidently assume roles as both team leaders and teammates.
• Represented Cornell at all-Ivy League SAAC Conference.
• Co-facilitator of a three-credit theory-based course called Intergroup Dialogue Progect (IDP) that is focused on social identity, conflict, and communication. 
• Involved in the creation of WOCA (Women of Color in Athletics).

Jack Robinson, Men's Heavyweight Rowing
• The commodore of the heavyweight rowing team, Robinson passed away in February 2022 after an 11-year battle with osteo sarcoma.
• The Cornell coaches have renamed the team's annual Ackerman Award for Jack; it recognizes "spirit, camaraderie, and competitiveness" and will now be called the Ackerman-Robinson Award.
• The team also dedicated a trophy in his memory—the JRR333 Cup—engraved with the words that they believe describe Jack, and his impact on their lives, the best. The cup sits in the boatbay, "so we can see him every time we launch."
• Robinson was a coxswain and a role model for the Big Red team, helping instill a culture and work ethic, a contagious enthusiasm for the sport.
• When his health took a turn for the worse during the winter, Robinson's Make-A-Wish was to join the big Red for its winter training trip, where he had one last row with his teammates.

 
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