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Centennial Conference Athletes of the Week - Feb. 7-13

Centennial Conference Athletes of the Week - Feb. 7-13
Posted: Feb 15, 2022

LANCASTER, Pa. -- Centennial Conference winter sports continue to inch closer to conference, regional, and national championship events as we've now crossed the mid-point of February. The CC Wrestling Championship kicked off the conference's winter championships last Saturday, while the men's and women's swimming championships begin Thursday at Franklin & Marshall. Basketball and indoor track & field have a few regular season competitions on tap prior to their championships on the final weekend of February. 

Johns Hopkins' Ella Baran once again headlines this week's award recipients with another record-breaking week on the track. Other CC award winners for the week include Baran's teammate Annie Gutierrez, Arthur Beyer of JHU men's track & field, Brody Myers of Ursinus men's track & field, Sidney Thybulle of JHU men's basketball, and Dana Bandurick of Swarthmore women's basketball. 

 

See below for details on each of this week's award recipients. 

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MEN'S BASKETBALL
  
Player of the Week
Sidney Thybulle, Jr., F, Johns Hopkins
Irvington, N.Y. | Irvington
Thybulle helped Johns Hopkins to a pair of big wins this week, averaging 9.0 points, 11.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists while shooting 80 percent from the field in just 21 minutes per game. He scored 11 points, grabbed five rebounds and added one assist, one steal and one block versus Franklin & Marshall. Thybulle followed that with seven points, 18 rebounds and three assists in the win at Dickinson. Thybylle's 18-rebound performance is the highest single-game total in the CC this season. 
 
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
 
Player of the Week
Dana Bandurick, Jr., G, Swarthmore
New Hope, Pa. | Council Rock North
Bandurick recorded a double-double in three of four games while leading the Garnet to a 4-0 week in Centennial action. The junior posted averages of 14.8 points, 13.0 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 3.3 steals and 2.5 blocks per game to keep Swarthmore in the CC playoff hunt. Bandurick now has 13 double-doubles on the year. 
 
 
Men's Indoor Track & Field
Track Athlete of the Week
Arthur Beyer, Gr., Johns Hopkins
Rumson, N.J. | Rumson-Fair Haven Regional
Beyer just edged out teammate Matthew Kleiman to set the school record in the mile and move into the top-20 nationally at the BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational. Beyer crossed the finish line in 4:08.71, which ranks sixth all-time in Centennial history and 16th in the nation this year. 
  
Men's Indoor Track & Field
Field Athlete of the Week
Brody Myers, Fr., Ursinus
Camp Hill, Pa. | Camp Hill
Myers continued his steady season by placing third overall in a field of Division I, II, and III teams for the pole vault with a mark of 4.50 meters during the VMI Winter Classic. It was his second-highest mark of the season and best pole vault mark of the weekend among men's Centennial athletes. 
 
Women's Indoor Track & Field
Track Athlete of the Week
Ella Baran, Sr., Johns Hopkins
Plymouth, Minn. | Houston 
A week after running the fastest mile time in Division III history, Baran again made history with a Centennial Conference and JHU record time in the 3,000 meters at 9:13.32. Baran's time is the third-fastest in Division III history and is the fastest run on a 200-meter track. Baran currently sits second on the DIII performance list in 2022 after her efforts at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational. The senior also anchored the final leg of the Blue Jay DMR, currently the nation's fastest. The Blue Jay quartet ran the second-fastest DMR in school history (11:43.93) with Baran closing out in 4:47.17.
 
Women's Indoor Track & Field
Field Athlete of the Week
Annie Gutierrez, Gr., Johns Hopkins
Coral Gables, Fla. | Ransom Everglades
Gutierrez recorded the second-best mark in Centennial Conference history in the long jump at the David Hemery Valentine Invite with a 5.60m leap. Gutierrez moves up to 15th on the Division III national list with that effort. She also added a career-best 400m mark and posted another outstanding time in the 60 hurdles.