BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian College honored its 2021 senior student-athletes with its Senior Athletic Recognition at Rocco Calvo Field Thursday afternoon. Women's tennis standout Emma Angle and women's track & field/cross country runner Natalie Novotni were selected as the Co-Outstanding Senior Female Athletes while football player Nick Petros and men's lacrosse student-athlete Jimmy Schicke were honored with the Co-Outstanding Senior Male Athletes. The Blue & Grey Scholar Athlete awards were presented to Novotni and men's track & field/cross country runner Peter Gingrich. The H.T.D. Gillespie Award for outstanding service to Moravian's athletics program was presented former Head Athletic Trainer Bob Ward.
Angle, a four-year member of the women's tennis squad, has a career singles mark of 32-12 heading into Sunday's 2021 Landmark Conference Championship match that the Greyhounds will host, and she is 35-16 in doubles action. Angle, who has played in the first singles and first doubles spots in the line-up all four years, was selected to the Landmark All-Conference First Team Singles and as the Landmark Conference Tournament Most Valuable Player in 2019 while helping the Greyhounds to 20-2 overall record, the Landmark Conference title and the first NCAA Division III Tournament win in program history. Angle also made the Landmark All-Conference Second Team singles in 2018, and she is a two-time member of the Landmark Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll and has made Moravian's Dean's Honor List twice.
Novotni was selected as the Landmark Conference Women's Cross Country Performer of the Year in both 2018 and 2019 after winning the conference titles each year to earn Landmark All-Conference First Team honors. Novotni was also named to the 2018 NCAA Division III All-Mideast Region Team with a 13th place finis. She is a three-time Landmark All-Conference First Team honoree and Champion on the track, winning the 3,000-meter race indoors in both 3019 and 2020 and the 5,000-meter run indoors in 2020. Novotni has a pair of Landmark All-Conference accolades on the track as the runner-up in the 5,000-meter run indoors in 2019 and the 10,000-meter run outdoors in 2019. Off the track, Novotni has a 3.94 GPA as a nursing major, and she was named the 2020 Landmark Conference Women's Cross Country Senior Scholar-Athlete. Novotni has made Moravian's Dean's Honors List seven times, and she was a three-time selection to the Landmark Conference Fall and Spring Academic Honor Rolls and twice on the Landmark Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll. Novotni is also a member of Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society, and she was also selected to the 2018 and 2019 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III All-Academic Team.
Petros put his name all over the Moravian football record books in three seasons as a wide receiver and punter. He is tied for seventh with 120 career receptions, fifth all-time with 1,789 career receiving yards, tied for second with 17 career receiving touchdowns, eighth with 137 career punts, eighth with 4,909 career punting yards and tied for sixth with an average of 35.8 yards per punt. Petros was selected to the 2018 Centennial All-Conference Second Team while making the Honorable Mention squad in 2019. Petros was named to the National Football Foundation's Hampshire Honor Society while making the Dean's Honors List twice.
Gingrich runs distance events for both the cross country and track & field squads for the Greyhounds. He earned a pair of Landmark All-Conference First Team honors as relay champions on the track for being part of the winning 4x400-meter relay indoors in 2020 and the first-place distance medley relay team indoors in 2018. Gingrich also has an All-Conference Second Team honor in the 4x400-meter relay indoors in 2019. Gingrich, who has maintained a 3.98 GPA while majoring in mathematics and minoring in both computer science and Spanish, made the Landmark Conference Fall and Spring Academic Honor Roll three times apiece and the Landmark Conference Winter Academic Honor Roll twice, and he has been on Moravian's Dean's Honor List seven times and is a member of Moravian's Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society.
Schicke, a long stick midfielder, returned for a fifth year this spring after having his 2020 campaign cut short due to the pandemic. This season, Schicke helped the Greyhounds to the program's first-ever Landmark Conference Tournament and the school's first-ever postseason win for men's lacrosse with a victory in the Quarterfinals. Schicke was selected to the Landmark All-Conference First Team in both 2021 and 2017 while making the All-Conference Second Team in 2018 and 2019 and the ECAC Division III South All-Star Second Team in 2017. Schicke completed his career with three goals, five assists, 82 caused turnovers and 224 ground balls, which ranks third in program history.
Ward retired in May of 2018 after 32 years at Moravian. Ward joined the Moravian staff in 1986 after serving as an Assistant Athletic Trainer at Lehigh University, Head Athletics Trainer at Freedom High School, and Head Athletics Trainer for the American Soccer League Pennsylvania Stoners professional soccer team. In 2011, he was elevated to an assistant athletic director for the Greyhounds in addition to running the athletic training department.
