Siena’s Mahala and Saint Peter’s Geck Named Hercules Tires MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week
Siena’s Mahala and Saint Peter’s Geck Named Hercules Tires MAAC Student-Athletes of the Week
EDISON, NJ (Feb. 24, 2021) –Siena College’s Robert Mahala and Saint Peter’s University’s Marie-Christine Geck have been named the Hercules Tires Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Student-Athletes of the Week.
Robert Mahala
Siena
Basketball
A walk-on who has spent that last two seasons as a member of the Saints, Mahala was appointed a team co-captain prior to the 2020-21 season and has made appearances in three contests this season. The Jackson, New Jersey native made six appearances off the bench during the 2019-20 campaign and scored his first collegiate points in Siena's win over Quinnipiac on January 26, 2020.
A two-time member of the MAAC Academic Honor Roll and a MAAC All-Academic Team member in 2020, Mahala holds a 3.56 cumulative GPA in business, and posted an impressive 3.86 mark during the Spring 2020 semester. He serves as a member of Siena's Student Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC), and was honored as Siena's Male Leo Dufort Student Athlete of the Month for January 2021.
Marie-Christine Geck
Saint Peter’s
Women’s Swimming
Geck, a freestyle and 200-fly swimmer, is coming off a stellar junior campaign last year with the Peacocks, in which she competed in seven meets. The Germany native posted several top-two finishes during the 2019-20 circuit, earning a pair of event victories against Pace. She had two runner-up finishes in the 500-yard freestyle and 200-yard freestyle races against Manhattan, and had the same results at the US Merchant Marine Academy Invitational. She also recorded a fourth-place finish at the 2019-20 MAAC Swimming & Diving Championships in the 1650-yard freestyle, clocking in at 17:23.96.
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.