Who shines brightest? The top 5 athletes at UB
By HUNTER SKOCZYLAS | Dec. 8, 2021Dyaisha Fair (Junior guard, women’s basketball)
Hunter Skoczylas is the sports editor for The Spectrum. In his free time, he can be found looking up random sports statistics, jamming to Fleetwood Mac and dedicating his Sunday afternoons to watching the Buffalo Bills.
Dyaisha Fair (Junior guard, women’s basketball)
On a recent Monday afternoon in November, eight of the nine members of the UB women’s tennis team assembled in the Miller Tennis Center for practice.
In her senior year of high school, Brisbane, Australia native Georgia Woolley drove over an hour each day just to attend basketball practice.
The UB men’s basketball team is seeking redemption after consecutive losses in the MAC Championship Game and the first round of the National Invitation Tournament.
The UB women’s basketball team is set to begin the 2021-22 season with the same philosophy but with a younger team and a deeper bench.
Women’s soccer (13-3-3, 6-2-3 MAC) eliminated Central Michigan (9-8-1, 6-4-1 MAC), 2-1, Sunday on a wild game-winning double-overtime goal at the 105-minute mark in the Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinals.
After capturing its first-ever Mid-American Conference Championship and dethroning seven-time champion Akron last season, UB swimming and diving (1-0, 1-0 MAC) is hungry to win its second consecutive title in 2021-22.
Women’s volleyball (9-12, 2-7 MAC) fell to Ohio (4-15, 4-4 MAC), 1-3, Friday night and 0-3 Saturday afternoon at Alumni Arena. The Bulls are on a seven-game losing streak after starting out 2-0 in conference play, with four of those losses coming as sweeps.
The UB women’s basketball team returned to the court for practice last week with redemption on their mind.
After dropping its Mid-American Conference opener to Western Michigan last week, UB football (2-4, 0-2 MAC) fell to the Kent State Golden Flashes, 48-38, at Dix Stadium in Kent, OH on Saturday night.