{"id":223,"date":"2025-06-17T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/?p=223"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:32:36","slug":"fall-winter-2024-25-mariner-athletic-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/the-academy-news\/fall-winter-2024-25-mariner-athletic-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall\/Winter 2024-25 Mariner Athletic Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>\r\nh2 {\r\n    color: #005496;\r\n    margin: 1em 0 0;\r\n}\r\n<\/style><span class=\"subCategory\">Sports<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Fall\/Winter 2024-25 Mariner Athletic Achievements<\/h1>\n<p>MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY led the NAC with ten special awards, a testament to the athletic prowess of its student-athletes.<\/p>\n<h2>Senior Scholar Athlete Award:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Brody Hathorne, men\u2019s golf<\/li>\n<li>Kirra Magana, women\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<li>Elijah Yeaton, men\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Player of the Year:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Kirra Magana, women\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<li>Sydney Williams, women\u2019s volleyball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Rookie of the Year:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>William Spaulding, men\u2019s cross country<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Tate, women\u2019s volleyball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Defensive Player of the Year:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ronnie Morgan, men\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<li>Erianna Moore, women&#8217;s basketball<\/li>\n<li>Curt Heinz, men&#8217;s basketball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">Notable Team and Individual Milestones<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Women\u2019s volleyball won their 11th NAC Championship, defeating SUNY Cobleskill and earning a bid to the NCAA tournament, where they faced a tough matchup against MIT (31-1).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Ronnie Morgan became the first student-athlete in school history to be named to the first team of the 2024 Academic All-America\u00ae Men&#8217;s Soccer NCAA Division III Team.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Curt Heinz set many school records, becoming the all-time leader in assists, rebounds, blocked shots, and points in men\u2019s basketball history. He is the first Mariners\u2019 player to be named National Player of the Week by the United States Basketball Writers\u2019 Association and D3hoops.com and was named the ECAC Player of the Year. He was nominated for the prestigious Jostens Trophy, which is awarded annually to one men\u2019s and one women&#8217;s NCAA Division III basketball player based on their athletic performance, academic achievements, and community service.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Erianna Moore reached the 1,000-point milestone in women\u2019s basketball in a victory over Husson University on December 4th.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Head Coach Craig Dagan earned his 400th career win with a victory over the University of Maine-Farmington on December 7th.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Women&#8217;s basketball was 23-5 on the season and played for the NAC Championship, the outcome of which was decided in the final possession.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Men&#8217;s basketball had their best season in 21 years, finishing 13-11 under first-year coach, Cedric Gillette.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s wrestling qualified for their regional matches<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Carson Trout set six pool records at three venues over ten days in January.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports<\/p>\n<p>Fall\/Winter 2024-25 Mariner Athletic Achievements<\/p>\n<p>MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY led the NAC with ten special awards, a testament to the athletic prowess of its student-athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Scholar Athlete Award:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brody Hathorne, men\u2019s golf<\/li>\n<li>Kirra Magana, women\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<li>Elijah Yeaton, men\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Player of the Year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kirra Magana, women\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<li>Sydney Williams, women\u2019s volleyball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rookie of the Year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Spaulding, men\u2019s cross country<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Tate, women\u2019s volleyball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Defensive Player of the Year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ronnie Morgan, men\u2019s soccer<\/li>\n<li>Erianna Moore, women&#8217;s basketball<\/li>\n<li>Curt Heinz, men&#8217;s basketball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Notable Team and Individual Milestones<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\">Women\u2019s volleyball won their 11th NAC Championship, defeating SUNY Cobleskill and earning a bid to the NCAA tournament, where they faced a tough matchup against MIT (31-1).<\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\">Ronnie Morgan became the first student-athlete in school history to be named to the first team of the 2024 Academic All-America\u00ae Men&#8217;s Soccer NCAA Division III Team.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\">Curt Heinz set many school records, becoming the all-time leader in assists, rebounds, blocked shots, and points in men\u2019s basketball history. He is the first Mariners\u2019 player to be named National Player of the Week by the United States Basketball Writers\u2019 Association and D3hoops.com and was named the ECAC Player of the Year. He was nominated for the prestigious Jostens Trophy, which is awarded annually to one men\u2019s and one women&#8217;s NCAA Division III basketball player based on their athletic performance, academic achievements, and community service.<\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\">Erianna Moore reached the 1,000-point milestone in women\u2019s basketball in a victory over Husson University on December 4th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/the-academy-news\/fall-winter-2024-25-mariner-athletic-achievements\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/issue1-2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}