Shenandoah University

Shenandoah University's Matt Conroy has earned the Old Dominion Athletic Conference's Harry G. "Doc" Jopson Award, the conference's top senior scholar-athlete award, for the 2025-26 year following a vote from the conference's board of directors. Each year, the ODAC awards the Marjorie Berkley and Harry G. "Doc" Jopson awards to one female and one male senior (or graduate student), respectively, who exhibit the highest athletic, academic, and extracurricular achievements. The ODAC's 2026 Berkley Award went to Washington and Lee two-sport star Sarah Zimmerman.

Shenandoah University outfielder Jaime Padilla earned his second All-America nod of the 2026 postseason after being named to the American Baseball Coaches Association's fourth team on May 29. The senior from Yonkers, New York, who was named an All-American by D3baseball.com on May 28, has earned five All-America awards over the last two years. Padilla was named a preseason All-American by D3baseball.com earlier this year and earned postseason awards last season from D3baseball.com and the ABCA.

Shenandoah University outfielder Jaime Padilla was named a fourth team All-American by D3baseball.com on May 28, becoming the first Hornet since 2017 to earn preseason and postseason All-America honors in the same season. Padilla, a senior captain from Yonkers, New York, helped lead Shenandoah to the 2026 ODAC tournament title with a .385 batting average, a 1.101 OPS, 72 hits, and 60 RBIs while starting all 49 games. He led the Hornets in runs scored (66), doubles (21), triples (3), total bases (114), and slugging percentage (.610), while ranking second on the team in stolen bases (21). In center field, Padilla had a .991 fielding percentage, recording 112 putouts, two outfield assists and just one error in 115 total chances.

Shenandoah University's baseball program earned multiple all-region awards on May 26, with Jaime Padilla and Liam Stewart earning All-Region VI recognition from D3baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association, and JP Williams and Carl Keenan joining the duo on the ABCA squad.

Shenandoah University first-year track and field student-athletes Roman Bernard and Molly Donaldson were named United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Region South for the 2026 outdoor season. Bernard raced his way to all-region status in the men's 400-meter dash, while Donaldson was named all-region in the women's shot put. Donaldson now has two all-region accolades after claiming the honor for shot put during the 2025-26 indoor season.

The 2026 outdoor track and field season will continue for the Shenandoah University men's track and field program as first-year Roman Bernard has qualified for the 2026 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Bernard qualified for nationals in the 400-meter dash with a seed time of 47.28 seconds, which ranks 21st in the nation. That mark is a school record, which Bernard set in the finals at the 2026 ODAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships, placing him second in the conference meet.

Shenandoah University women's lacrosse team had two players named to the 2026 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Division III All-Chesapeake Region Team on May 15. Attacker Ayla Jantz and defender Talia Maria represent the Hornets on the second team. It's the second straight season that Maria has earned an IWLCA All-Region accolade.

Shenandoah University's men's tennis team was awarded four All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference honors in selections released by the conference office on May 13. Dominick Suwak was named to the All-ODAC first team in singles and earned first-team distinction in doubles for his pairing with Aryanth Chintharlapalli. Shine Tokas was named to the second team for No. 2 singles, and Artem Babaiev earned second-team honors for No. 4 singles.

Shenandoah University infielder Brenna Westwood was named All-Region VI in NCAA Division III by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association on May 16, becoming the first Hornet to earn an all-region nod since 2016. The junior from Pittsburgh helped the Hornets to a 30-win season, the program's first since 2011. Westwood also garnered first team All-ODAC recognition earlier this month. In 41 games this season, Westwood hit .405 with 49 hits, all of which were singles. She tallied at least one hit in 32 games and had 13 multi-hit contests. Westwood also posted a .468 on-base percentage to go along with 22 RBIs, 21 runs scored, 13 walks and five steals. Defensively at second base, Westwood had 80 assists and 75 putouts, both ranking among the top three for the Hornets. She posted a .969 fielding percentage in 160 chances.

Shenandoah University's women's tennis team took home two All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference second-team honors in selections announced on May 13, with Olivia Guzzo earning No. 2 singles honors and Leigha Montrief and Kendra Gillette winning the award for No. 3 doubles.

Shenandoah University's baseball program earned four All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference honors in selections announced by the ODAC on May 7. Reliever Liam Stewart and outfielder Jaime Padilla led the Hornets on the first team, while JP Williams earned second-team honors as a catcher and Carl Keenan closed out the honorees on the third team as a second baseman.

Shenandoah University's softball team earned six All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference awards, the most since the Hornets joined the ODAC in 2013, in selections announced by the conference on May 7. Brenna Westwood (third base) and Cadence Reig (utility) were named first team All-ODAC, Paige Eagleton (first base) and Makayla Cox (outfield) earned second team honors, and Allison McQueeney (outfield) and Gracie Ravenkamp (pitcher) earned spots on the third team.

Shenandoah University midfielder Cody Griffis earned third team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference accolades for men's lacrosse in selections announced by the league on May 6. In 10 ODAC games, the sophomore from New Market, Maryland, led the Hornets with 25 goals and 28 points. Additionally, he had three man-up goals in conference play to go along with eight groundballs and one caused turnover. Griffis scored in each ODAC contest and had eight multi-goal games. The midfielder registered a season-high six goals in the team's 16-4 win at Averett University in April.

Shenandoah University's women's lacrosse team earned six All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference selections, while first-year Natalie Opatovsky earned the league's Rookie of the Year award in an announcement made by the conference office on May 5. The Hornets had three first-team selections with Ayla Jantz, Addison Harmel, and Talia Maria each earning a spot. Opatovsky, Emily Ransom, and Alex Ripkin rounded out SU's selections with second-team honors.

Shenandoah University's outdoor track and field program had four student-athletes combine to earn five All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference accolades at the ODAC Championships on April 24-25 at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Sophomore thrower Grady Speer (men's hammer throw, discus) led the Hornets with a pair of all-conference performances over the two-day event, while first-year Molly Donaldson (women's shot put), sophomore Maddy Chorney (women's 10,000-meter), and first-year Roman Bernard (men's 400-meter) also each placed among the top three in their respective events.

The Shenandoah University men's tennis team swept the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Player of the Week awards on April 20, with Dominick Suwak winning the league's award for singles and Lucas Beasley and Shine Tokas earning the honor for doubles. Suwak has won ODAC Singles Player of the Week for the sixth time this season and has also earned two additional Doubles Team of the Week awards. The Hornets' top singles player went 2-0 this week, starting with a win over Randolph College's Jacob Martin (6-4, 3-6, 6-3) on April 15. Suwak followed it up with a victory on April 18 over Bridgewater College's Corey Beshoar, 6-1, 6-1. For the Hornets' doubles team, Beasley and Tokas played at the No. 2 spot in all three matches last week, going 3-0 against Randolph, Bridgewater and Guilford College. The duo won 6-0 over Randolph's Jason Duval and Aksel Tinnes-Rimehaug, prior to defeating Bridgewater's duo of Levi Widelich and Logan Garner by the same score. Beasley and Tokas finished their week with a victory against Guilford's George Hardie and Turner Johnson, 6-2, in Shenandoah's regular-season finale.

Dominick Suwak and Aryanth Chintharlapalli earned the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Doubles Team of the Week accolade for the second time this season following a 3-0 week for the Shenandoah University men's tennis team. The duo played at the No. 3 spot in all three matches for the Hornets, with three wins as a team. Suwak and Chintharlapalli played their way to a 6-2 win in the first match of the week versus Goucher on April 7 before entering ODAC play over the weekend. In conference play, the duo first downed Averett, 7-6, with a 7-2 tiebreaker, on April 11 before defeating Lynchburg's duo, 6-2, on April 12.

Shenandoah University outfielder Cadence Rieg was named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Softball Player of the Week on April 13, giving the Hornets their second weekly conference award winner of the 2026 season. During the Hornets' 6-0 week last week, the sophomore from Winchester, Virginia, went 12-for-18 at the plate with six doubles, seven RBIs, five runs scored, seven walks and a stolen base. Rieg posted a .667/.760/1.000 slash line in those six games and entered Tuesday ranked fourth in the ODAC in batting average (.459), on-base percentage (.526), OPS (1.222) and doubles (11), fifth in triples (five), and sixth in RBIs (30) and slugging percentage (.694). Rieg posted four multi-hit games last week, with three hits in each of the two games against Mary Washington and two hits in both games at Lynchburg. Additionally, Rieg scored a run in five of the six games. Her week was highlighted by a game-tying double in the seventh inning of Game 2 at Lynchburg. Later in the inning, Rieg came around to score the eventual game-winning run to help fuel the sweep.

The Shenandoah University women's lacrosse team swept the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Player of the Week awards on April 6, as Ayla Jantz won the league's Offensive Player of the Week and Addison Harmel earned Defensive Player of the Week following a 2-0 showing for Shenandoah that featured a pair of ODAC home wins over Bridgewater College and Randolph-Macon College. Jantz scored 10 goals and added an assist for an 11 point week, while also tallying six draw controls. The sophomore from Fredericksburg began her week with a six-goal game against Bridgewater on April 1, during which she also secured five draw controls. On April 3 against Randolph-Macon, the attacker added four more goals and an assist to her resume. Harmel, a sophomore midfielder from Bel Air, Maryland, forced seven turnovers and five ground balls in those two games. Against Bridgewater, Harmel had five caused turnovers and four ground balls, while also scoring three goals and contributing an assist. On April 3 against the Yellow Jackets, Harmel had two caused turnovers in the second half, helping SU secure the win.

Shenandoah University third baseman Tyler Smith was named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Baseball Player of the Week on April 6. Smith, a junior from Crofton, Maryland, hit .462 (6-for-13) with three home runs, nine RBIs and three runs scored in three games last week. On March 31, he hit a game-ending home run against York (Pennsylvania) in a seven-inning, 10-0 blowout, helping the Hornets earn their 10th run-rule victory of the season. On April 3, in a game in which the Hornets trailed Guilford by nine runs at one point, Smith hit two three-run home runs to fuel a Shenandoah comeback and give the Hornets a 12-11 ODAC win. This season, Smith has an ODAC-leading 11 home runs and 47 RBIs, which ranks second in the conference. He is the fourth Hornet to earn ODAC Player of the Week this season, joining Carl Keenan, Jaime Padilla, and JP Williams.

Shenandoah University's men's volleyball team earned its first-ever All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference selections following its inaugural season in 2026, with Alex Schoenen and Kailen Dmitruk earning third-team honors. Schoenen, a middle blocker, played in 47 conference sets and earned 104 kills, a team-high 40 blocks, and 142.5 total points in 14 conference matches. The sophomore had a .300 attacking percentage in conference play as well. Schoenen had at least 10 kills in five ODAC matches and had a season-high five solo blocks versus Eastern Mennonite. The middle blocker was named the league's ODAC Defensive Player of the Week back in March. Dmitruk, an opposite hitter, led the Hornets with 115 kills in conference play, which ranked inside the top 10 in the ODAC. Additionally, the first-year added 11 service aces, 50 digs, a .941 reception percentage, and 17 blocks in 14 ODAC matches.

Shenandoah University senior Dominick Suwak earned the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Men's Tennis Singles Player of the Week award on April 6, marking the fifth time he's snagged the honor during the 2025-26 season. Suwak won both of his singles matches last week in a pair of ODAC matches against Washington and Lee University and Virginia Wesleyan University. The senior from Arlington, Virginia, won his first match against the Generals 6-3, 6-1 on April 1 on the road in Lexington, and closed out the week with a 6-2, 6-3 win on April 4 against the Marlins' Jed Platts. Suwak is undefeated with an 11-0 record this season, which includes three wins in ODAC play.

Shenandoah University junior Addisyn Banks has been named an NCAA Division III All-American honorable mention by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) on March 19, becoming the third player in program history to earn the award. Banks led the Hornets in scoring (18.1 points per game), assists (3.6 per game), steals (2.3 per game) and blocks (20 in 28 games), and ranked second on the team with 8.1 rebounds per contest and 42 made 3-pointers. The Nokesville, Virginia, native played in all 28 games (27 starts) for the Hornets, helping the team earn an at-large bid into the 2026 NCAA Division III women's basketball championship tournament.

Shenandoah University senior Sean Rinebolt was named a Scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association on March 19. The senior from Keedysville, Maryland, finished his Shenandoah career with over 100 wins, becoming the second SU wrestler to reach that mark. Rinebolt earned third team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference honors for the 2025-26 season while also being named the conference's Lighter Weight Wrestler of the Week in November. The 133-pound wrestler also earned all-region recognition after placing seventh at the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament in February. To qualify for this recognition, wrestlers must place in the top eight at their respective regional tournament or maintain a win percentage above 66% with at least 15 matches wrestled, while also maintaining either a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher or at least a 3.2 GPA over the last two semesters.

Shenandoah University junior Meghan Gaskins was named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference's Softball Pitcher of the Week for the first time in her career on March 16. The junior from Chesapeake, Virginia, started two games and made three total appearances for the Hornets last week, posting a 0.50 ERA and striking out 15 over 14 innings. Gaskins fired a no-hitter in a 4-0 win over Wheaton College (Illinois) during the Space Coast Spring Games in Melbourne, Florida, on March 9, the first of two complete games for the right-hander during the weeklong tournament. In that March 9 win, Gaskins struck out seven batters and didn't allow a base runner until a leadoff walk in the seventh inning. The no-hitter was the first for the Hornets since 2022. On March 11, Gaskins pitched a five-inning complete game shutout while striking out five in a 16-0 win over Emerson. Gaskins then pitched the final two innings of the Hornets' 8-7 walkoff win over Baldwin Wallace University on March 12. Gaskins is 4-0 on the year with a 0.67 ERA, 19 strikeouts, and only 13 hits allowed in 21 innings.

Shenandoah University catcher JP Williams was named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference's Baseball Player of the Week on March 16 following a two-win week for the No. 11 Hornets. In three games last week, Williams went 8-for-10 at the plate with three doubles, a home run, six RBIs, and six runs scored. Additionally, the junior from Haymarket, Virginia, drew three walks and was hit-by-pitch once, and went 2-for-2 in stolen base attempts. In two games against Virginia Wesleyan over the weekend, Williams had five hits, five RBIs, six runs scored, two walks, and his lone home run of the week. Behind the plate, the catcher had 15 putouts and an assist with no errors. Overall this season, Williams leads the Hornets with a .509 batting average. He also has 22 RBIs and 13 extra-base hits.

The Shenandoah University men's tennis team swept this week's Old Dominion Athletic Conference weekly awards as Dominick Suwak earned the conference's Singles Player of the Week while he and teammate Aryanth Chintharlapalli netted the Doubles Team of the Week award on March 16. Suwak, who has earned ODAC Singles Player of the Week four times during the 2025-26 season, helped the Hornets go 4-0 last week during the PTR Spring Tennis Fest in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Suwak, a senior from Arlington, Virginia, won all four of his singles matches in the top spot of Shenandoah's lineup.

Shenandoah University junior Addisyn Banks was named to the D3hoops.com women's basketball All-Region VI First Team on March 16. Banks led the Hornets in scoring (18.1 points per game), assists (3.6 per game), steals (2.3 per game) and blocks (20 in 28 games), and ranked second on the team with 8.1 rebounds per contest and 42 made 3-pointers. The Nokesville, Virginia, native played in all 28 games for the Hornets, with 27 starts, helping the team earn an at-large bid into the 2026 NCAA Division III women's basketball championship tournament.

Shenandoah University first-year student-athlete Molly Donaldson earned All-Region honors in the shot put from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) for the NCAA Division III 2025-26 indoor track and field season. Donaldson's best mark of the season came at the Joe LaRocco Invite at Roanoke College in February, when she set a new school record with a throw of 12.92 meters, a distance that also is the third-best in the South Region. Donaldson initially set the program record at the Bomber Invite at Ithaca College with a toss of 12.45 meters the week prior.

Shenandoah University senior Dan Ailor was named the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Golfer of the Week on March 11 after leading the Hornets' men's golf team to a victory at the Fernandina Beach Collegiate in Florida on March 9-10. It was the second second career ODAC Golfer of the Week honor for Ailor, who earned the weekly award early in the 2023-24 season. This week, the senior shot 70-72-69 in three rounds with the three-under-par 69 in round three tying a career low. Ailor tied for second overall in the 78-golfer field with 211 (-5).