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Greatest impact for a rookie, Marquette University’s rookie tandem of Brianna Lorenz (Sophomore) and Anastasia Cokinos (Freshman). It’s a team sport and without both of these women the team would never had made it to Midwest Regionals.
By the time Brianna and Ana made it to Regionals with Marquette, their scores had improved to help lead the Marquette women’s team. Brianna lead the women’s team in slalom with 5 buoys and beat out all the scores put up by the Marquette men and women across the entire season except Ben Walczak. Ana was just behind her with an improvement to 3 buoys at Regionals. In trick at Regionals, Ana took the lead for the Marquette women and put up a score of 160 which similar to Brianna’s slalom score beat almost all scores across the entire Marquette Fall season, save 4 scores and 3 of those 4 were the same score of 160 points. Moving to jump at Regionals Brianna took the top spot for the women’s team with a jump of 40 feet (she jumped 45′ at Conference) and bested Ana’s jump of 39 feet.
After the ski season was finished, these two newcomers continued to impress with their dedication to the team’s improvement by taking on team board positions, Vice President for Brianna and Women’s Captain for Ana.
Sara did a great job providing a team nomination for Indiana University (just mentally change her UIs to IUs), but I would like to pick out one person from Indiana and nominate her individually.
Sonja Popovich – Indiana University
2017
Slalom: 56 buoys. Trick: nope. Jump: No lands in tournament.2018
Slalom: 65 buoys (+9 buoys!). Trick: 40 points. Jump: 69 feet!