Corey Knox and Varsity 8 Boat Crew Named Athletes of the Week

Corey Knox (Buffalo, NY/JFK) of the men's track and field team won two throwing events at the Florida Relays. Knox won the men's discus with a season-best mark of 174-1 (53.06m), taking the event by nearly six feet. He later claimed the shot put at 56-6 (17.22m) as he added more than three feet to his season-best mark.

UB's Varsity Eight crew of coxswain Allison Sheehan (St. Catharines, Ontario/Denis Morris Catholic) and rowers Rosa Kemp (Putnam Valley, NY/James I. O'Neill), Hannah Miller-Selzer (Ottawa, Ontario/Colonel By SS), Jacklyn Postulka (Waterford, NY/Shenendehowa), Heide MacMahon-Manning (Fonthill, Ontario/E.L. Crossley SS), Kaitlyn Koscielniak (Lancaster, NY/Sacred Heart Academy), Shannon David (St. Catharines, Ontario/St. Francis), Sydney Gilchrist (Winnipeg, Manitoba/Sturgeon Heights) and Brittany Ronald (St. Catharines, Ontario/Sir Winston Churchill) won the Harvey Cup by more than 35 seconds over Eastern Michigan. The crew was also won Saturday's race against Dayton, ten seconds ahead of the Flyers.