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ATHLETICS
ANAJAH BROWN ’21 TO PLAY BASKETBALL AT SIENA COLLEGE
Senior Anajah Brown signed her NCAA National Letter of Intent to play basketball with Division 1 Siena College. Anajah is a 1,000-point scorer, Baldwin basketball captain, 2nd Team All-State and a 1st Team All-League and Main Line player.
Squash Scholar Athletes Named
Thirteen student athletes earned the U.S. Squash Scholar Athlete Award this year:
Saachi Singh ’20
(four-year scholar athlete)
Meghna Sreedhar ’20
(four-year scholar athlete)
Aleezah Burhan ’21 Rhea Jain ’21 Theresa Kay ’21 Grace Lavin ’21 Isabelle Lee ’21 Sydney Bramen ’22 Sophia Lee ’22 Devon Shatzman ’22 Christa Kay ’23 Catherine Li ’23 Eugenia Li ’23
They are in select company as only 391 student athletes in the country earned this incredible distinction.
Izzy Antanavicius ’22 Ranked No. 1 Player
Izzy Antanavicius '22 was ranked the No. 1 player for the 16-year-old age group in the United States Tennis Association Middle States section, which consists of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia. This is the highest ranking she has ever achieved. Izzy is Baldwin’s No. 1 tennis singles player, the 2019 Inter-Ac League singles champion and the 2021 Baldwin team captain.
SOCCER PROGRAM EARNS FIFTH TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD
Awarded every spring for the previous academic year, the varsity soccer team was recognized by the United Soccer Coaches organization with the 2019-20 High School Team Academic
Award. The varsity soccer team was one of 312 teams (178 girls, 134 boys) from throughout the United States to earn the Team Academic Award for exemplary performance in the classroom as a team during the 2019-20 academic year. This is the fifth consecutive year the program received this honor. Additionally, Baldwin was the only team in the Inter-Ac League to earn the award. Baldwin varsity soccer had a 3.6 GPA for the 2019-2020 school year.
Fall Senior Athletes Celebrated
In mid-November, Baldwin celebrated the senior fall athletes in cross country, field hockey, soccer, tennis and volleyball. Although it was an unprecedented season that focused mostly on conditioning and intra-squad competition, the teams did compete against Agnes Irwin.
Upper Right: Taylor Levinson '21 dribbles with poise under pressure from Zoe Levine '24. Left: Maya Murray '21 carefully watches Olivia Stratton '21 set the ball. Middle: Alysia Copeland '23 prepares to block a pass from Ashling O'Dwyer '21. Lower Right: Abigail Dubinski '21 concentrates on her backhand.
UPDATE ON BEARS IN COLLEGE
PGA Championship
Last summer, sophomore Megan Adelman won the Girls 1618 Division PGA Championship via a three-hole sudden death playoff. Megan shot an 80 (+9), which included an impressive birdie on the 17th hole. Megan’s victory propelled her to finish 2nd overall in the girls 16-18 division for The 2019-2020 Player of the Year rankings for the Philadelphia PGA Junior Tour. Megan is the captain of Baldwin's golf team, the sophomore representative for the Baldwin Athletic Association and also plays varsity soccer and basketball.
Former Baldwin soccer players Lauren Bracken '19 (Dickinson College, top), Celia Page '19 (Haverford College, middle) and Rachel White '18 (Haverford College, bottom) all made the 2020 Centennial Conference Fall Sports Academic Honor Roll. Each student earned a cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher.
Junior Anya Mostek has been named a 2020 U.S.A. Swimming Scholastic All-American. In a competition year shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 1,087 swimmers whose efforts in the classroom and in the pool successfully earned them the title of Scholastic All-American. The honor is given to 9-12th grade students who maintain a minimum 3.5 grade point average and have swum an individual pool time equal to or faster than the 2019 Winter Junior qualifying time in any individual event from Aug. 16, 2019 - Aug. 31, 2020. In addition, Anya competed at the 2020 Bill Schmidt Meet at the Graham Aquatic Center in York, PA and was highlighted, with the review stating, “16-year-old Anya Mostek, an uncommitted high school junior, swam a pair of best times in the 100- and 200-yard freestyles. On day 1 of the meet, in the 200 free, she swam 1:51.36. That knocked half-a second off her previous best time, which was set in North Carolina in August shortly after meets resumed. She followed that swim with a best time in the 100 free of 51.29, shaving .13 seconds off her previous fastest time. She also won the girls’ 200 back in 2:00.39, finished 4th in the 50 free in 24.28, won the 100 back in 55.50 and finished 4th in the 200 breast in 2:22.33.”
