SPORTS BRIEFS: Friday, March 6, 1998

W. Hoops' Caramanico is Ivy Rookie of the Year Caramanico led the Quakers with 20.2 points per game and 10 rebounds per contest. She was named Ivy League Rookie of Week 10 times this season, including six straight to end the 1997-98 season. Caramanico twice notched a career high of 33 points against Navy (12/5/97) and Cornell (2/27/98) this season. The Blue Bell, Pa.-native also was the only freshman on the top 30 NCAA rebounding leaders list at 28th and finished the season as the 34th highest scorer in the nation as well. Senior co-captains Colleen Kelly and Michelle Maldonado were on the honors list, with Kelly grabbing a spot on the Second Team All-Ivy team and Maldonado given Honorable Mention. Kelly leaves Penn as the all-time three point field goal leader (170), while Maldonado holds the fifth spot in rebounds for a Quaker in a season, grabbing 271 in the 1996-97 campaign. -- Miles Cohen M. Hoops Jordan lands on First Team All-Ivy While the Ivy Championship might not be returning to West Philly this year, the Quakers have regained a spot on the All-Ivy First Team. Sophomore point guard Michael Jordan was named to the Ivy's top team along with Princeton's Steve Goodrich and Gabe Lewullis, Dartmouth's Shaun Gee and Yale's Emerson Whitely. The only other Quaker to be honored was junior forward Paul Romanczuk, who achieved a spot on the second team. Princeton's Goodrich was selected as the Ivy League Player of the Year. The senior big man for the Tigers guided his team to a No. 8 ranking in the national polls. During his time at Old Nassau he started all 110 games of his career and is one of only four Princeton players with at least 1,000 points, 400 rebounds and 200 assists in his career. As co-captain for the Tigers, Goodrich finished first in the Ivies in field goal percentage (64 percent) and fourth in three-point accuracy (46 percent). He also climbed to second in the League in blocks with 23 and was named First Team All-Ivy for the third straight year, a feat only 21 other players have ever accomplished in League history. -- M.C. W. Track heads north to compete at ECACs After last weekend's commendable third-place finish at the Heptagonal Championships, the Penn women's track team will head to Hrvardthis weekend to compete in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships. ECACs focuses individual champions, unlike Heps which determines a team champion. Penn will be sending more than 10 women to compete in ECACs. Those team members successful at Heps could be good indicators of this weekend's top finishers. Penn's only first-team All-Ivy winner, junior Luana Botelho, will be participating in the shot put this weekend. Botelho set the current school record last weekend at Heps, with a distance of 46'3.5". Junior Aqiyla Muhammad was named second team All-Ivy after her finish at Heps in the long jump. The only other Penn woman to be named the second team All-Ivy was sophomore Ruth Neuhaus in the triple-jump. Junior Jessica Mitchell finished third at Heps in the 800 meter run. Mitchell has qualified for ECACs in the 1000 meter, 800 meter and 500 meter events. After the strong team finish in the league, the women hope to return from Boston this weekend with some more individual honors. -- Shirin Sudhakara