North Coast Athletic Conference Athletes of the Week – Week of Nov. 7, 2023
 
Offensive Football Athlete of the Week – Trey Fabrocini, Denison
Denison senior Trey Fabrocini (Lancaster, OH/Fisher Catholic) accounted for four total touchdowns in a 38-15 win over Kenyon. The running back rushed 30 times for 154 yards and three touchdowns, bringing his season rushing touchdown total to 17. Fabrocini also added three catches for 36 yards and a touchdown. It was his sixth game this season that he totaled over 140 rushing yards and the third game this year that he recorded at least four touchdowns.
 
Defensive Football Athlete of the Week – Tate Journell, Wooster
Wooster sophomore Tate Journell (Northfield, MN/Northfield) had a shutout-preserving interception and a forced fumble in the Fighting Scots' 36-0 win over Oberlin on Saturday. The Northfield, Minnesota native preserved the shutout after he ran an interception back 62 yards. It was the first time since 2004 that Wooster allowed under 100 yards of total offense. The victory also marked Frank Colaprete's 50th win as head coach.
 
Men's Swimming & Diving Athlete of the Week – Marko Krtinic, Kenyon
Kenyon senior Marko Krtinic (Bor, Serbia/Gimnazija Patrijarh Palve) helped the Owls clinch two dual wins against NCAC foes in less than 24 hours. The senior secured five first-place finishes over the stretch, including two individual crowns and three relay wins, while adding one runner-up placement and a fourth-place finish. At Ohio Wesleyan, Krtinic won the 100 freestyle (46.16) and contributed to a 200 free relay victory (1:22.98) while finishing 0.02 seconds behind teammate Aleksa Dobric (Belgrade, Serbia/Sports Gymnasium Belgrade) in the 200 free (1:43.83). At Denison, Krtinic played a part in scoring 33 of Kenyon's points in the tightly-contested dual with wins in the 100 butterfly (49.54), 200 medley relay (1:32.52), and 400 free relay (3:02.92) along with a fourth-place finish in the 200 fly (1:54.90).
 
Women's Swimming & Diving Athlete of the Week – Maddie Becker
Wooster senior Maddie Becker (Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park) was a quadruple winner to help the Fighting Scots to a 24th-straight dual meet win on Saturday. Becker won the 400 medley relay (4:10.74), the 100 backstroke (1:02.31), the 200 breaststroke (2:33.49), and the 200 free relay (1:43.09) in Wooster's 164-132 win over Mount Union.
 
Offensive Women's Volleyball Athlete of the Week – Tyler Linkhart, Wittenberg
Wittenberg senior Tyler Linkhart (Yellow Springs, OH/Yellow Springs) helped the Tigers close out the 2023 regular season, winning six-straight matches, including three last week. Linkhart reached a career milestone in Wittenberg's first match of the week, a 3-0 win over Muskingum, as she surpassed 1,000 kills. Combined with the Tigers' wins over Heidelberg (3-0) and Ohio Northern (3-1), Linkhart piled up 44 kills, a .295 hitting percentage, 19 digs, and five service aces.
 
Defensive Women's Volleyball Athlete of the Week – Kait Colahan, Wittenberg
Wittenberg first-year Kait Colohan (Vermillion, OH/Vermillion) played a key role in the Tigers perfect 3-0 week, primarily with her presence at the net. She recorded two blocks apiece in wins over Muskingum (3-0) and Heidelberg (3-0), but she saved her best performance for last, contributing a match-high six blocks in a 3-1 win over Ohio Northern to go along with 16 kills and a .519 hitting percentage. On the week, the middle blocker tallied 10 blocks, 10 dig, and 27 kills, with a .420 hitting percentage.
 
NCAC Milestones & Records (Oct. 30 – Nov. 5)
 
Denison, Football – Senior linebacker Jeff Moore (Richmond, VA/St. Christopher's School) led the defensive effort for Denison with a season-high 14 total tackles and a career-high five quarterback hurries in the Big Red's 38-15 road win at Kenyon. One of his hurries forced an incompletion on fourth down to set up Denison's final touchdown pass from 31 yards out on play later in the fourth quarter.
 
Ohio Wesleyan, Volleyball – Senior middle blocker Claire Solberg (Huron, OH/Huron) made the Wid Guisler Invitational All-Tournament Team after she recorded 12 kills, six blocks and a .375 hitting percentage in their losses to Ithaca (3-1) and Juniata (3-0). Junior setter Olivia Osuna (Orlando, FL/Phillips) recorded 11 assists at top-ranked Juniata and 20 assists vs. 23rd-ranked Ithaca. The 31 assists raised her career total to 1,023, making her the 12th Ohio Wesleyan player to surpass the 1,000-assist mark.
 
Ohio Wesleyan, Football – Senior wide receiver Jakii Alston (Pickerington, OH/Central) and the duo of sophomore wide receiver Tyler Webb (Port Clinton, OH/Port Clinton) and senior quarterback Kaden Buza (Winchester, VA/Millbrook) recorded school-record-setting long plays to help Ohio Wesleyan build a 21-13 lead against Wittenberg on Saturday. Midway through the opening quarter, Buza found Webb on the left side and Webb went the distance for a 95-yard scoring play. The 95-yard connection is the longest pass play in Ohio Wesleyan history, surpassing the 91-yard play from Hayden Buckley to Bob McFarland against Connecticut on Nov. 19, 1949, and equaled from Dan Hover to Matt Apel against Denison on Oct. 8, 1994. After Wittenberg closed to within 14-13, Alston answered by returning the ensuing kickoff untouched up the right sideline for 99 yards and a touchdown to increase the lead to 21-13. Alston's 99-yard return surpasses the previous modern long of 95 yards, set by Bob McFarland against Otterbein on Oct. 4, 1947, and matched by Nick Rice at Wabash on Sept. 23, 2006.
 
Wabash, Football – Senior wide receiver Cooper Sullivan (Jacksonville, FL/The Bolles School) caught seven passes for a career-high 178 yards in a 52-13 road victory over Hiram on Saturday. Sullivan broke the Wabash career receiving yardage record of 2,858 held previously by Mike Funk. Sullivan enters Saturday's 129th Monon Bell Classic with a career total of 2,875 receiving yards.
 
Wooster, Football – Senior kicker Lake Barrett's (Columbia, SC/Hammond School) 22-yard field goal in Saturday's 36-0 win over Oberlin made him the program's all-time leader in field goals at 28.