Basketball
Geneva High School Class of 2004
Karen earned a remarkable twelve varsity letters and was named MVP eight times over her stellar high school career. She was a three-time MVP in basketball and track, a two-time MVP in volleyball and was named the Female Athlete of the Year her senior year. In basketball she was named to the All-State team for Class A, the Canandaigua Messenger Daily Dozen All-Star team and was selected to play in the Ronald McDonald All-Star game her senior year. She was named to the New York State Basketball Coaches Association All-Academic team and was a Finger Lakes East first team all-star in both her junior and senior years. She was also a two-time Finger Lakes Times Fab Five and All-Greater Rochester Honorable Mention selection. In track and field she was a two-time league all-star and was the league champion in the long jump her senior year and the high jump in her junior year. She was also a three-time sectional qualifier finishing second in the high jump and fourth in the long jump her junior year and finishing fourth in the high jump her sophomore year. In volleyball she set school records for kills in a game, season, and career and, in her senior year, she led the team to their first winning record in fifteen years.
Karen went on to Utica College where she earned four letters in basketball and three in volleyball. She was named the Empire Eight Sportswoman of the Year in Basketball her senior year. That year she helped Utica College win their first ever Empire Eight Conference Championship and earn their first trip to the NCAA tournament since 1985. She finished her career as third all-time leader in three point goals for Utica College. Karen was the top offensive and defensive player on the volleyball team her junior and senior years leading the team in kills, blocks, and digs. She was an Empire Eight All-Conference Honorable Mention selection her junior year. Karen received the Alumni Association Female Sportsmanship of the Year Award and the Kiwanis Club’s Utica College Female Student Athlete of the Year Award in her senior year. Karen is an accountant for the U.S. Department of Defense in Rome, NY. She follows her dad, Wylie “Joe”, who was inducted into the Geneva Sports Hall of Fame in 1992.