NORFOLK, Va. – After the spring sports season was canceled, the NCAA provided an extra season of eligibility for spring athletes. Fifteen Old Dominion University spring sport student-athletes plan to take advantage of the unique opportunity and return for an extra season of eligibility in 2020-2021, ODU has announced. Each program was able to account for the returning students within its scholarship allocation.
The following ODU seniors will return to ODU and compete for the Monarchs.
Spring Sport Student-Athletes Returning
Women's Tennis
Holly Hutchinson
2020 C-USA Player of the Year. ITA Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship Award Winner for the Atlantic region. First Team All-Conference USA honoree for singles and doubles. Defeated the No. 2 nationally ranked player from UNC this past Fall.
Brooke Pilkington
Conference USA Newcomer of the Year in 2019. First Team All-Conference USA for doubles and Second Team All-League for singles in 2019.
Men's Tennis
Francois Musitelli*
All-Conference First Team honoree for singles and doubles. Won the 2019 ITA Atlantic Region Doubles Championship with teammate Jannik Giesse. ITA Scholar-Athlete.
Lacrosse
Glory Johnson
After a junior season that saw her scoring 53 goals, the fifth most in a single season in Monarchs history, Johnson netted 32 goals and registered 43 points in just nine games in a shortened 2020 season. The Baldwinsville, N.Y. native can already be found scattered throughout the ODU lacrosse record books, as she currently sits in a tie for ninth in career points (152), 10th in career goals (118) and fourth in career draw controls (135).
Baseball
Kyle Battle
Returning senior leader Kyle Battle recorded 92 RBI's and compiled nine home runs in four seasons. The 2017 Freshman All-American returns to ODU as one of the Monarchs key outfielders who has played in 146 games.
Dominik Claxton
After his first season as a Monarch was cut short, Claxton looks to pick up where he left off in 2020, where he made 11 appearances with two starts. He hit .267 with four hits and two RBI's.
Tom Scheffler
In 2020, Scheffler made two appearances on the bump, tossing 2.1 innings, allowing six hits, six runs, two doubles and two home runs.
Brett Smith
A member of the ODU baseball team since 2016, Smith has pitched in 36 games as a Monarch. While battling an elbow injury during his career, Smith was primarily one of the Monarchs weekend starters in 2016 and 2018. Smith has tallied 52 strikeouts throughout his Monarch career.
Men's Golf
Carter Morgan
Morgan, one of two Monarch golfers to compete in all six tournaments, led ODU to its first tournament win since the 2016-2017 season after earning the individual win at the VCU Invitational last fall with a 13-under 203. He earned two other top-20 finishes and posted an average round score of 72.0, the third lowest on the team.
Doug Rios Ceballos
In his two seasons as a Monarch, Rios Ceballos has appeared in 10 tournaments, three coming in the shortened 2019-2020 season. His best round this year came at the Martin Downs Collegiate, where he posted a 2-under 70 in the first round.
Rowing
Talya Cohen
Cohen, a four-year member of the Monarchs rowing team, was named a Dean's List student-athlete this past year and was a 2018-2019 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team member.
Maddie Doherty
Doherty is a four-year member of the ODU Rowing team. This season, the Chesterfield, Va. Native was a member of the Women's Club 8+ boat that placed 15th out of 31 boats at the Head of the Charles Regatta.
Maggie Fluharty
Fluharty joined the ODU rowing team as a freshman in the 2016-2017 season after being the captain of her high school rowing team in Everett, Wash. Last season she was named to the 2019 American Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.
Sailing
Dreugh Phillips*
A four-year member of the sailing squad, Phillips was named team MVP this season. As a junior in 2019, Phillips helped the Monarchs finish in 13th at the national championships.
Alex White
A mechanical engineering major, White helped the Monarchs to a fourth-place finish at this year's Georgetown Team Race.
*Competing in the 2021 spring only
ODU Announces 16 Spring Sport Senior Student-Athletes Will Return
