Athlete Awards Athletes of the Month Choose Awards Type All Athlete Awards Athletes of the Month Kaley Vazquez Award Athletes of the Month Week Of 11/5/2013 Sport Women's Volleyball Bio View Full Bio AMHERST, N.Y. - Senior volleyball player Kaley Vazquez (Kenmore, N.Y./Kenmore West) and freshman cross country runner Matt Cregan (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) have been named the Bedore Tours Student-Athletes of the Month for October. Vazquez, a 5-foot-5 setter, led Daemen to an 8-4 record last month as the Wildcats closed October with seven straight wins.  For the month, Vazquez averaged 21.3 assists and 7.6 digs per match. She put up a season-high 30 assists vs. Edinboro University on Oct. 15 and recorded her 2,500th career assist in Daemen's four-set win over Long Island University Post on Oct. 25.  She leads the team with 555 assists so far this season and has a total of 2,662 assists with four matches still remaining in her career. Cregan led the Wildcats to a third-place finish in their first-ever appearance at the East Coast Conference Championships on Oct. 27.  As the top freshman finisher in the race (10th place), Cregan was named the ECC Rookie of the Year while also earning Second Team All-Conference honors.  His time of 26:23.24 narrowly missed breaking the school record for an 8K race (26:22.39) set by Brett Smith (Ontario, N.Y./Wayne Central) at the Highlander Invitational on Sept. 24, 2011. Prior to his solid conference championship race, Cregan was named the ECC Rookie of the Week for his performance at the Mercyhurst/Gannon Invitational on Oct. 12 in which he finished in sixth place with a time of 27:56.  It was his third weekly honor of the season having been previously named the ECC Rookie of the Week for Sept. 16-22 and the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Runner of the Week for Sept. 23-29. Athlete Awards Date Athlete Sport 2/3/2025 Justin Hemphill Men's Basketball 2/3/2025 Ne'vaeh Buntley Women's Basketball 12/11/2024 Benjamin Bill Men's Basketball 12/11/2024 Jasmine Brundage Women's Volleyball 11/4/2024 Becca Schultz Women's Soccer 11/4/2024 Aidan Kincaid Men's Cross Country 10/4/2024 Kitsa Scime Women's Tennis 10/4/2024 Arturo Bustamante Men's Soccer 5/7/2024 Alexis Rodriguez Women's Track & Field 5/7/2024 John Jaworski Men's Track & Field 4/3/2024 Alahna Paige Women's Basketball 4/3/2024 Dylan Fasoyiro Men's Basketball 3/1/2024 Zach Schneider Men's Volleyball 3/1/2024 Alahna Paige Women's Basketball 2/1/2024 Becca Schultz Women's Track & Field 2/1/2024 Nick MacDonald Men's Basketball 1/5/2024 Dylan Fasoyiro Men's Basketball 1/5/2024 Alahna Paige Women's Basketball 12/8/2023 Jasmine Brundage Women's Volleyball 12/8/2023 Joey Atkins Men's Basketball Previous12345...Next
Kaley Vazquez Award Athletes of the Month Week Of 11/5/2013 Sport Women's Volleyball Bio View Full Bio AMHERST, N.Y. - Senior volleyball player Kaley Vazquez (Kenmore, N.Y./Kenmore West) and freshman cross country runner Matt Cregan (Syracuse, N.Y./Solvay) have been named the Bedore Tours Student-Athletes of the Month for October. Vazquez, a 5-foot-5 setter, led Daemen to an 8-4 record last month as the Wildcats closed October with seven straight wins.  For the month, Vazquez averaged 21.3 assists and 7.6 digs per match. She put up a season-high 30 assists vs. Edinboro University on Oct. 15 and recorded her 2,500th career assist in Daemen's four-set win over Long Island University Post on Oct. 25.  She leads the team with 555 assists so far this season and has a total of 2,662 assists with four matches still remaining in her career. Cregan led the Wildcats to a third-place finish in their first-ever appearance at the East Coast Conference Championships on Oct. 27.  As the top freshman finisher in the race (10th place), Cregan was named the ECC Rookie of the Year while also earning Second Team All-Conference honors.  His time of 26:23.24 narrowly missed breaking the school record for an 8K race (26:22.39) set by Brett Smith (Ontario, N.Y./Wayne Central) at the Highlander Invitational on Sept. 24, 2011. Prior to his solid conference championship race, Cregan was named the ECC Rookie of the Week for his performance at the Mercyhurst/Gannon Invitational on Oct. 12 in which he finished in sixth place with a time of 27:56.  It was his third weekly honor of the season having been previously named the ECC Rookie of the Week for Sept. 16-22 and the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) Runner of the Week for Sept. 23-29.