Huskies athletics highlights

HUSKIES ATHLETICS HIGHLIGHTS

Competition for Huskies Athletics paused in March when the NCAA canceled tournaments and competitions. St. Cloud State University’s Division II athletes are expected to resume competition in January. In the meantime, get ready to root for the Huskies by downloading the new SCSU Huskies fan app in Google Play or the App Store and celebrating these 20192020 season highlights:

» Wrestling finished the season as the nation’s No. 1 ranked team with a 16-0, 8-0 record.

The team won the 2020 National Wrestling Coaches Association Division II National Duals team title and the 2020 NCAA Division II regional title, had nine wrestlers advance to the

NCAA Division II championships, and eight wrestlers earning All-America honors. Head

Coach Steve Costanzo earned NWCA Division II National Coach of the Year honors, and first year Joey Bianchini earned NWCA Division II Rookie of the Year honors. » Women’s Swim and Dive captured its second consecutive Northern Sun Intercollegiate

Conference (NSIC) championship in 2019-20 and its fifth NSIC title since 2012-13. Coach

Jeff Hegle earned NSIC Coach of the Year honors, Kayla Deters earned NSIC Diving Coach of the Year and Senior Rebekah Stone earned NSIC Diver of the Year honors. » Women’s Basketball captured first in the 2020 NSIC postseason tournament and earned a bid to the 2020 NCAA Division II regional tournament. » Volleyball qualified for the NCAA Division II tournament for the first time since 2004.

The team advanced to the championship game of the NSIC postseason tournament and received a bid to the 2019 NCAA Division II Central Region tournament. Senior Clara Krenz earned NSIC’s Libero of the Year, and Head Coach Chad Braegelmann earned NSIC Coach of the Year.

SWIM CAPTAIN SAVES LIVES

A St. Cloud State University couple were vacationing in the right place and the right time this July when they answered a cry for help and saved three swimmers from a Lake Superior rip current.

Swim Team Captain and communication studies major Marena Kouba and her boyfriend business economics and finance double major Dayton Nash were vacationing in Presque Isle in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan July 19 when they heard the cries.

Nash recognized the distress of the man and two children struggling in the current and Kouba took action. As she put her swimming skills to work to reach the trio, Nash called for emergency assistance.

Kouba helped calm the swimmers and pulled them back toward shore as more help arrived. The following Monday Kouba was back on campus at St. Cloud State working at the Admissions welcome desk when President Robbyn Wacker, Vice President Jason Woods and Athletic Director Heather Weems stopped by to congratulate her for her heroic actions. “On behalf of the entire St. Cloud State leadership we wanted to come down and say how proud we are of what you did and the courage, the selflessness, the leadership you exhibited,” Wacker said. “We just wanted to say how much we appreciate you and thank you for being a Husky.”