Led by a pair of seniors who earned All-America - the first time in school history with multiple honorees in a season - the Engineers registered a school record 10th-place finish at the NCAA Division III Championship. The 2019 championship featured five individual winners and two meet records for the Engineers.
Winning the Liberty League Championship propelled them into the NCAA Tournament, the first time in school history, with back-to-back appearances.įor the 11th time in the past 11 years, the Engineers stood atop the podium at the conclusion of the Liberty League Championship Meet. The regular season began with wins in each of the first eight games, establishing the Engineers as a premier program in the nation. The triumph also secured the first NCAA Tournament appearance for Rensselaer, making it the most successful season in school history. In its fourth Liberty League Championship Tournament Final in a five-year span, the Engineers won their first title in the Liberty League’s nearly 25-year history.
During the regular season, Rensselaer won its first seven games and swept four doubleheaders before winning four post-season contests. The team earned a chance to advance to the Super Regionals. The Engineers qualified for the NCAA Tournament for only the third time in school history. That changed when the foursome of Colin Smith ’17, Jason Hall ’18, Noah Falasco ’20, and Ben Fazio ’17 posted a national championship-winning time of 9:56.42. No Rensselaer relay squad had won an NCAA Championship. The best was yet to come, however, as the team scored a school-record ninth-place finish at the NCAA Championship.
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In its 16 victories, the team led by Leslie DeLano ’06G outscored its opponents by 133 goals.Ī series of strong finishes set up the Engineers for conference and regional success, including a Liberty League Championship Meet victory and third place in the 42-school Atlantic Region Championship. By depicting collective memory, transforming the recognition into a new context, his paintings show tragedy and humour in balance, let the viewer connect to the imagery and stumble across it simultaneously.The Engineers charged their way through the campaign to establish the school record for wins and earn a place in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals for the first time in school history. Lekko’s style consisting of bright colours, cartoonish figures and fragmented words on textile or canvas, evolves to a strongly associative pictorial realm blurring the lines between high and low culture without choosing the side. With his distinctly juvenile visual language, he holds a mirror to his generation with its constant need to maintain a cheerful facade and get outside approval. Yet, many of the topics depicted go deeper into darker territories of the human experience, such as envy, anxiety and self-doubt. Much in the way of online status updates, his work might appear super positive at first glance. Kennet Lekko, while criticising and often being ironic about the superficial and digital-passive generation of the Millennials, is at the same time aware of himself being a part of and being influenced by his times. In a manner fitting to the times when selfie culture is running wild, and everyone seems to be more self-obsessed than ever, his starting point comes from observing these processes and his personal experience regarding these dynamics. Still, on closer inspection, they turn out to be complex symbolic networks reflecting the contemporary struggle of being young and finding one’s place in modern society. 1992, Tallinn) is an up-and-coming artist from Estonia, living and working in Berlin.Īt first glance, Lekko’s paintings might seem fast and overpack with randomly associated imagery.