new awards program, \u201cthe CATSBYS<\/a>\u201d (think ESPN’s “Espys,” with a smidge of F. Scott Fitzgerald), and put a few defining Bobcat moments from 2023\u201324 on center stage. The event took place in the Gray Athletic Building, and was organized by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFar from the staid awards programs you might recall from high school or college, the CATSBYS featured a red carpet entrance, video highlights of Bobcat performances, lots of music (the hosts entered to \u201cLevitating\u201d by Dua Lipa and DaBaby, and the Crosstones\u2019 rousing a cappella <\/em>rendition of Hozier’s \u201cSomeone New”) \u2014<\/em> plus many, many awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPosing on the red carpet at the CATSBYS on May 8 are first-year Bates athletes Eric Facey (football) of Bristol, Conn., Seneca Moore (track and football) of Lansing, Mich., and Ryan Kimmel ’27 (football) of Jeannette, Pa. (Huck Triggs ’24 for Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAmong the various and familiar sports award categories (breakout athlete, rookie of the year) and the presenting of the esteemed Lindholm Scholar-Athlete Awards, were awards for “Moment of the Year” in men’s and women’s athletics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women\u2019s moments of the year nominees<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\nTo the screams of teammates, Nordic ski captain Olivia Cuneo \u201924 of St. George, Vt., finishes second out of 92 competitors at the Dartmouth Carnival in the 1.3-kilometer freestyle, the best Bates finish since 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\nMaria Femia \u201925 of Canton, Mass., scores the winning double overtime goal in field hockey’s victory over Bowdoin in an emotional and thrilling NESCAC quarterfinal game, on a night when the Bobcats honored their home city of Lewiston after a tragic week. [Winner.]<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\nExecuting a play the team had just gone over for the first time that morning, Alexandra Long \u201925 of Newtown, Pa., delivers a long, perfect pass to Elsa Daulerio \u201926 of Harpswell, Maine, who made an open layup to beat Tufts, the Bobcats\u2019 first win over the Jumbos since 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t
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While much was new at the CATSBYS, the Milton L. Lindholm Scholar Athlete Awards offered something familiar and venerable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Lindholms have been given annually since 1976 to seniors on men\u2019s and women’s teams with the highest grade-point averages. The awards honor the revered admission dean of the Class of 1935 who served Bates for 32 years, and were presented by Malcolm Hill, dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year’s four Lindholm winners each achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nMatthew Danielson, a men’s tennis team captain and biology major from St. Petersburg, Fla.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Grace Acton a women’s golfer and interdisciplinary studies major from Harvard, Mass.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Nerea Barranco Aramburu, a women’s golfer and double major in mathematics and engineering from Zarautz, Spain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Rachel Liazos, a softball captain and politics major from Westborough, Mass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nFrom left, 2024 Lindholm Scholar-Athlete Award winners Grace Acton, Nerea Barranco Aramburu, Matthew Danielson, Rachel Liazos. (Bates Athletics)Bates Athletics debuted its new awards program, \u201cthe CATSBYS\u201d (think ESPN’s “Espys,” with a smidge of F. Scott Fitzgerald), and put a few defining Bobcat moments from 2023\u201324 on center stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":163104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11011],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162698"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163095,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162698\/revisions\/163095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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