HOBOKEN, N.J. (Dec. 7, 2020) – Under the leadership of current Director of Athletics Russell Rogers, who just completed his 20th year in the position, the Stevens Institute of Technology Department of Athletics has risen to unprecedented levels of success.

Under Rogers' leadership, Stevens has finished inside the top 45 in the DIII College Directors' Cup standings 11 consecutive years including a program-best 13th-place finish in both 2010-11 and 2015-16. The Ducks also won the Jostens Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) Institution of the Year Award in both 2007-08 and 2012-13, while also finishing as the Collegiate Athletic Administrators of New Jersey DIII Cup Winner in seven of the last 10 years.

The Department of Athletics will look back into the archives to reflect on the development's evolution under Rogers. Each week, key moments will be highlighted that happened "This Week in Stevens History."

The week of December 7-13
Dec. 7, 2017 – Regan Earns Prestigious Today Top-10 Award
Even after graduation, Stevens women's cross country/track and field star Amy Regan continued to rake in awards as she earned Today's Top-10 Award that recognizes former student-athletes for their successes on the field, in the classroom and in the community. Regan joined Stevens Hall of Famer Zach Carr as the only two student-athletes in program history to win the accolade.

Regan, a six-time NCAA individual national champion in cross country and track and field, was a two-time USTFCCCA Cross Country National Athlete of the Year (2014 and 2016) and earned USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Year honors in indoor and outdoor track in 2016. She became the first Stevens Institute of Technology runner ever to reach the NCAA Division III cross country championships, doing so her freshman year in 2012.

Dec. 8, 2013 – Men's Swimming Captures Fourth Straight ECAC Title
The men's swimming program won its fourth consecutive ECAC Championship in come-from-behind fashion over NYU and SUNY-Oneonta and sophomore Ravi Sun was named the Swimmer of the Meet after accumulating 124 individual points.

The Ducks tallied 1,741 points to top NYU by 68.5 points thanks to winning the 400-yard medley relay, the 500-yard freestyle and the 400-yard freestyle relay on the final day of competition. Sun was joined by Thomasz Wolinski as the top-two point scorers in the meet.

The final event of the championship decided the result as the combination of Wolinski, Joshua Lefeber, Nick Noga and Shawn Hanak set a new meet record with a B-cut time of 3:04.07 to defeat NYU by over three seconds and garner 64 points.

Dec. 8, 2019 – DiMaria and Mathews Both Break School Records at TCNJ Indoor Open
A pair of program records fell on the same day in 2019 when both Nicholas DiMaria and Laura Mathews accomplished the feat for the Ducks at the TCNJ Indoor Open.
DiMaria broke a record that he previously held in the 300-meter dash with a final time of 35.34 and placed third out of a field of 43 runners. He bested his previous record-time of 35.57 seconds he set in 2018 in the same event.

Mathews, meanwhile, made a huge splash in her collegiate debut as she broke program record in the 60-meter hurdles, posting a time of 8.95 seconds to shatter the previous record of 9.26 seconds that had stood since 2014. Mathews won the race and topped a number of Division I runners in doing so.

Dec. 10, 2013 – Men's Basketball Hands NYU First Loss of the Season in OT
The Stevens men's basketball team handed NYU its first loss of the season and defeated the Violets for just the second time in program history with a 68-65 win in overtime.

Patrick Sabatino led the way for the Ducks with 17 points and seven boards while Matt Skrelja notched 16 and Evan Klimchak added 14. Trailing by two with less than 10 seconds remaining in regulation, Skrelja hit a layup to tie the contest and send it to overtime.

In the extra period, Stevens was nails from the free-throw line as they went 6-for-7 from the charity stripe in OT compared to an 0-for-3 effort from NYU. Sabatino and Skrelja both hit a pair of free throws with less than 12 seconds remaining to seal the win.

Dec. 10, 2004 – Marks Becomes First Student-Athlete in Program History to be Named a First Team All-American
After a stellar year on the pitch, junior men's soccer student-athlete Brian Marks became the first in program history to be named a First Team All-American as he was recognized by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Marks, a two-time Skyline Conference Player of the Year, helped Stevens to a 21-2-1 overall record in 2004 and helped the Ducks win a second straight Skyline championship. He finished the season with 13 goals, including 10 goals in his final 10 games of the regular season. Marks was a third team selection in 2003 as well.

Dec. 10, 2003 – Cruz Notches 29 Points to lead Women's Basketball to Win Over Vassar
Hall of Fame inductee Aracely Cruz scored a season-high 29 points and pulled down nine rebounds to lead the women's basketball team to a 64-49 win over Vassar College. It was the third consecutive win for the Ducks after starting the year 0-3.

Leading by two points at the break, the Ducks scored the first 11 points of the second half, four of which came from Curz, and never looked back. Stevens led by as many as 21 in the contest as the three-game win streak helped jump start a season where the Ducks advanced to the Skyline Conference Championship game.

Cruz finished the 2003-04 season with 500 total points and averaged 18.5 points per game which both still rank as the most in single-season program history.

Dec. 11, 2013 – NCAA Announces Stevens as Host for 2015 Men's Volleyball Championship
The NCAA and the Stevens athletics department made a historic announcement in 2013, the weight of which was not realized until nearly two years later. The tandem, in conjunction with the City of Hoboken, announced that the 2015 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship would be held inside Canavan Arena.

Two years later, the men's volleyball team became the first program in the history of the institution to win an NCAA Championship and was able to do so in front of its home crowd as a result of this announcement. The Ducks toppled Springfield College 3-0 in the championship match to make history.

The games/events noted above are not meant to be a complete listing of Stevens' events on these dates, but a sampling of great moments as determined by the Stevens Department of Athletic Communications.

"This Week From the Pond" Archives:
Sept. 14-20
Sept. 21-27
Sept. 28-Oct. 4
Oct. 5-11
Oct. 12-18
Oct. 19-25
Oct. 26-Nov. 1
Nov. 2-8
Nov. 9-15
Nov. 16-22
Nov. 23-29
Nov. 30-Dec. 6

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