BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- Moravian University is continuing its look back at its 2021-22 athletic campaign. The next entry in our second countdown of the summer – the Top 10 Stories of the Year selected by the athletic administration – is our No. 4 highlight – women's track & field/cross country runner Natalie Stabilito and baseball outfielder Robert Roman being selected as 2021-22 Landmark Conference Senior Scholar-Athletes.
The Landmark Conference selects 22 senior scholar athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics. The honorees must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators and sports information directors at the conclusion of each sport season.
Stabilito was the 2022 Landmark Conference Women's Outdoor Track & Field Senior Scholar-Athlete. This past outdoor season, she placed fourth in the 800-meter run and ninth in the 1,500-meter run at the Landmark Conference Championships, and she was part of the Hounds' third place 4x400-meter relay team in the final track event of the meet that saw the Greyhounds capture their 14th straight Landmark Conference Outdoor title, winning by just a point. Stabilito also finished fifth in the 1,500-meter run at the All-Atlantic Region Track & Field Conference Championships hosted at Moravian as she went from 12th to fifth on the final lap of the race. In 2021, Stabilito won the Landmark Conference and AARTFC titles in the 1,500-meter run, and she also earned Landmark All-Conference Second Team honors in the 800-meter run back in 2019.
During the indoor track season, Stabilito garnered Landmark All-Conference Second Team accolades in the 800-meter run in 2019, and she was second in the mile run at the 2020 AARTFC Indoor Championships. Moravian captured Landmark Conference indoor titles in 2019 and 2020. This past fall on the cross country course, Stabilito earned All-Metro Region honors with a fourth place finish that sent her to the 2021 NCAA Division III National Championship race in Louisville, Kentucky. She picked up 2021 Landmark All-Conference First Team honors with a fourth place finish in the meet hosted by the Greyhounds, and she was a member of the Landmark All-Conference Second Team as a freshman cross country runner in 2018.
Off the track and cross country course, Stabilito made Moravian's Dean's Honors List eight times as well as being a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. She will be a nine-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll. Stabilito completed her undergraduate degree in nursing earlier this month with a 3.83 GPA. She was also named as an United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic Individual in cross country in 2018 and 2021, and Stabilito was a member of Phi Eta Sigma National Freshman Student Honor Society. Stabilito also served in a leadership role for Moravian's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and participated in Landmark Conference SAAC events, and she also worked with Moravian's Habitat for Humanity group on campus.
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This past spring, Roman was selected as the Landmark Conference Baseball Senior Scholar-Athlete and earned Landmark All-Conference Second Team honors for the first time in his career. He recorded a .341 batting average in 2022 with 45 hits, 31 runs, four doubles and 23 RBIs, and Roman also made five assists and 75 putouts in right field. During his career, Roman collected 62 hits, 48 runs, seven doubles, 34 RBIs, four stolen bases and a .321 average while seeing action in 82 career games. He also posted 105 putouts and six assists as a Greyhound.
Off the field, Roman has made Moravian's Dean's Honors List eight times as well as being a member of the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society. He was a three-time member of the Landmark Conference Academic Honor Roll. Roman finished his undergraduate degree in nursing with a 3.77 GPA, and he has already started working as a trauma nurse in the ICU at St. Luke's Hospital, where he completed some shifts during the 2022 baseball season.
Read the original story at https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/bsb/2021-22/releases/20220523hxccfu.
The number three story in the countdown will be released on Friday, July 22.
