Iona’s Flynn and Manhattan’s Padre Named Hercules Tires MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week
EDISON, N.J. (Apr. 28, 2021) – Iona College’s Kate Flynn and Manhattan College’s Matt Padre have been named the Hercules Tires Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Student-Athletes of the Week.
Kate Flynn
Iona College
Swimming & Diving
The Iona College swimming & diving program swept the 2021 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Invitational in resounding fashion.
The women’s program had a program best finish at the 2020 MAAC Championships, finishing second behind the three-time defending champions, Fairfield. In 2021, fueled by a year of determination, the Gaels took first place at 2021 MAAC Invitational, which served as the de facto MAAC Championship.
Leading the way for the Iona women was senior Kate Flynn. The Ossining, New York resident continued her remarkable streak of improvement, taking the overall top spot in the 50-free (23.58); the 100-free (school record time of 51.23) and the 100-butterfly (56.55), as well as taking gold in the 200 and 400-yard medley relays as well in the 400-free relay.
Matt Padre
Manhattan College
Baseball
A 2019 All-MAAC First Team selection, Padre is hitting .262 with 12 runs, five RBI and a team-high 17 walks this season.
The Garden State native has picked it up of late in registering a seven-game hitting streak, including batting .357 (5-of-14) last weekend against MAAC-leading Fairfield.
In the classroom, Padre, who was recently tabbed as one of 30 candidates for the prestigious 2021 Senior CLASS Award, is on track to graduate in May with a degree in accounting and carries a 3.94 GPA. He earned 2019 Google Cloud Academic All-District Baseball Team honors, and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society, and Epsilon Sigma Pi, which is Manhattan’s highest honor.
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40
th year of competition during the 2020-21 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.