ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Five RIT student-athletes were honored by the Liberty League with weekly accolades announced by the league on Monday, October 12.
 
Senior Kathryn Arbegast was the Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week. Senior Gwen Petrie was named the Women's Diver of the Week and first year Layla Parker was named the Women's Volleyball Rookie of the Week.
 
On the men's side, sophomore Griffin Messenlehner was named the Men's Swimmer of the Week, and senior Luke Albanese was named the Men's Swimming Diver of the Week.  
 
Arbegast finished first out of 140 runners to lead the RIT women's cross-country team to a second place finish out of 11 teams at the Houghton Highlander Invitational, Saturday. Arbegast finished in a winning time of 20:49.2, nearly 42 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher. With the victory, Arbegast remained unbeaten this season.
 
Petrie won both boards for RIT on Saturday at RPI. The senior scored 244.25 points in the 1-meter and 278.20 in the 3-meter. 
 
Parker logged a career-high 23 kills to go along with 11 digs for her first career double-double and also had two service aces in a 3-1 setback to Russell Sage, Saturday. She then matched her career high with 23 kills on .333 hitting to go along with seven digs and four assisted blocks in a 3-1 victory over host Nazareth. Parker averaged .283 hitting, 5.75 kills/set, 2.25 digs/set and 0.5 blocks/set to lead the Tigers. 
 
Albanese won both boards against RPI on Saturday, scoring 351.35 points in the 3-meter and 335.90 in the 1-meter to help RIT earn a 194-106 win against the Engineers.
 
Messenlehner helped RIT earn a 194-106 dual meet win at RPI on Saturday by taking first place in the 100 Backstroke (51.79) and the 100 Freestyle (46.97). Messenlehner also swam a leg in the winning 200 Medley Relay.