Moravian Announces 2020 Senior Athlete Award Winners
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian College honored its 2020 senior student-athletes with its Senior Athletics Award video that debuted on Sunday, August 16. Women’s basketball standout Maddie Capuano and women’s track & field/cross country runner Carly Danoski were named the Co-Outstanding Senior Female Athletes while baseball player Ian Csencsits and men’s track & field/cross country runner Greg Jaindl were honored with the Co-Outstanding Senior Male Athletes. The Blue & Grey Scholar Athlete awards were presented to Danoski and football player Sal Pagano.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian College honored its 2020 senior student-athletes with its Senior Athletics Award video that debuted on Sunday, August 16. Women's basketball standout Maddie Capuano and women's track & field/cross country runner Carly Danoski were named the Co-Outstanding Senior Female Athletes while baseball player Ian Csencsits and men's track & field/cross country runner Greg Jaindl were honored with the Co-Outstanding Senior Male Athletes. The Blue & Grey Scholar Athlete awards were presented to Danoski and football player Sal Pagano.
The awards ceremony can be viewed on GreyhoundTV at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sjD0O5F4RI.
Capuano, a four-year starting guard, netted 1,772 points, the third most in school history, in 105 games to go along with 404 rebounds, 280 assists, eighth all-time, 223 three-pointers, the school record, 152 steals and 11 blocked shots for the Greyhounds. Capuano was named to the Landmark Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll three times and was honored on the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Academic All-District Team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America in 2020. She was selected to the Landmark All-Conference First Team and the D3hoops.com All-Mid-Atlantic Region Second Team in both 2019 and 2020, the Landmark All-Conference First Team in 2018 and as the Landmark Conference Rookie of the Year in 2017. Capuano was a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, and she made Moravian's Dean's Honor List six times.
Danoski won a trio of Landmark Conference Indoor Track Championships in 2020, capturing the 800-meter run, the mile run and as part of the 4x400-meter relay team. She was selected as All-Mideast Region in all three events by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for being in the top five in each of the individual events and the top three in the relay among all of the competitors in the region. Danoski was set to run in the mile at the 2020 NCAA Division III National Championships on Friday, March 13 when the championship was cancelled; however, the USTFCCCA awarded Danoski and all qualifiers for the national meet All-America accolades. Danoski was an eight-time Landmark Conference Indoor Champion, winning the title in the 800-meter run in 2018, 2019 and 2020, the mile run in 2019 and 2020 and the 4x400-meter relay in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She earned All-Conference Second Team honors as a freshman in the 4x400-meter relay in 2017 when she also finished third in the 400-meter dash and the 11th in the 800-meter run at the Landmark Championship meet. Danoski made her first trip to the NCAA DIII Indoor Championships in 2019 where she finished 16th in the 800-meter run preliminaries. Danoski had four Landmark Outdoor titles – the 800-meter run in 2018 and 2019, the 1,500-meter run in 2019 and the 4x400-meter relay in 2019, and she is a three-time All-Conference Second Team honoree in the 1,500-meter run in 2018, the 4x400-meter relay in 2018 and the 800-meter run in 2017. Danoski also participated at the NCAA DIII Outdoor Championships twice in the 800-meter run, finishing 18th in 2019 and 19th in 2018. She garnered a pair of Landmark All-Conference Second Team accolades in cross country with tenth place finishes in 2018 and 2019. Off the track, Danoski graduated with a 3.92 GPA as an environmental science major with a minor in French, and she was named the 2020 Landmark Conference Women's Indoor Track & Field Senior Scholar-Athlete. Danoski made Moravian's Dean's Honors List seven times, and she was a three-time selection to the Landmark Conference Fall, Winter and Spring Academic Honor Rolls. Danoski was also a member of Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, and she was also selected to the 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-District Team for Women's Track & Field and Cross Country.
Csencsits had a .371 batting average for the Greyhounds this spring before the season ended. He was 13-for-35 in 10 games with 15 runs, four doubles, a triple, a homer and 15 RBIs. Csencsits completed his 116-game career with a .357 batting average, fourth in program history, 111 runs scored, tenth all-time, and 142 hits, ranking 15th in school history, to go along with 23 doubles, eight triples, tied for seventh in program history, three home runs, 67 RBIs, 66 walks, tied for seventh in school history, five stolen bases, a .480 slugging percentage, tenth in program history, and a .463 on-base percentage, second all-time. Csencsits, who was named a two-time Landmark All-Conference First Team honoree before moving to the outfield in 2020, had 291 putouts and 216 assists, tenth in program history, in 526 chances in the field over 116 games played. Csencsits was a three-time member of the Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll and the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society while making the Dean's Honors List six times.
Jaindl ran distance events for both the cross country and track & field squads for the Greyhounds. On the cross country course, Jaindl garnered spots on the Landmark All-Conference First Team in 2017, 2018 and 2019, the Landmark All-Conference Second Team in 2016 and the NCAA Division III All-Mideast Region team in 2017, 2018 and 2019 while racing at the 2019 NCAA Division III National Championships. In indoor track, Jaindl was a two-time Landmark Conference champion, winning the 5,000-meter run in 2018 and 2019, and he was on the Landmark All-Conference Second Team for runner-up finishes in the 5,000-meter run in 2020 and the 3,000-meter run in 2018 and 2019. Outdoors, Jaindl won the 2017 Landmark Conference title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase while making the Landmark All-Conference Second Team six times, placing second in the 1,500-meter run, the 3,000-meter run and 3,000-meter steeplechase in both 2018 and 2019. Jaindl earned United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Mideast Region outdoors in 2019 in the 1,500-meter run and in 2018 and 2019 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as he went on to compete in the event at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships in both years. Jaindl made the Landmark Conference Fall, Winter and Spring Academic Honor Roll three times apiece, and he was on Moravian's Dean's Honor List three times and selected as USTFCCCA Cross Country All-Academic in 2017.
Pagano, a fullback/tight end, had five career receptions for 36 yards despite missing parts of three seasons with injuries. Pagano served as a team captain for the Greyhounds in 2019 for a second consecutive fall. He was honored on the 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team for NCAA Division III football and was a three-time member of the Centennial Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll. Pagano was selected one of 185 semifinalists across college football for the 2019 William V. Campbell Trophy Presented by Mazada, and he was also honored on the 2020 National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society and made Moravian's Dean's Honor List eight times. Pagano earned a degree in health sciences at Moravian, and he had a perfect 4.0 GPA. Pagano also worked with the 5-Star Heart project – weekly visits to local middle schools to engage with mentees, monthly mentor session involving a workout and discussion of program material, assist with clean up and remodel of Bethlehem Boys & Girls Club, coached youths at various one-day camps. He participated in Read Across America, in the Greyhounds' Be the Match Bone Marrow Donor Registration Drive, helped to tutor teammates and worked at the Bethlehem Boys & Girls Club and a foreign exchange student football clinic.
