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Saint Leo University SPIRIT.SAINTLEO.EDU 35 Troy Sieber Chosen by the Houston Astros Saint Leo junior first baseman Troy Sieber was selected by the Houston Astros on the third day of the 2016 Major League Baseball Draft. He was taken in the 24th Round, and was the 727th pick of the draft. “We’re very proud of Troy and all the hard work he has put in to make this happen. We wish him all the best and we will miss him,” said Sean O’Connor, Saint Leo’s head baseball coach. Sieber is the fifth Saint Leo player drafted under O’Connor, who recently completed his fourth season as the Lions head coach. An ABCA/Rawlings Second Team All-American and finalist for the 2016 Tino Martinez Award as Division II Player of the Year, Sieber batted .457 this season, leading the Sunshine State Conference and ranking fourth in all of Division II. Anthony Crocitto Named Head Women’s Basketball Coach A veteran Division II head coach with experience at all three levels of NCAA women’s basketball, Anthony Crocitto has been named Saint Leo University’s new head women’s basketball coach. ”We were looking for a coach with a proven record of success in Division II women’s basketball, and out of an incredibly deep pool of applicants we found an ideal fit in Anthony Crocitto,” said Francis X. Reidy, Saint Leo’s director of athletics. “I believe that Coach Crocitto’s passion for the game, coupled with his experience at identifying, recruiting, and developing talent at this level, will quickly lead to greater success for Saint Leo women’s basketball.” Crocitto comes to Saint Leo from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), where he has served as the Bears’ head women’s basketball coach for the past seven seasons. Under Crocitto’s guidance, NYIT has logged three 20-win campaigns over the last four seasons, rejuvenating a program that was 4-23 in the year prior to his arrival at the Old Westbury, NY, campus. Pablo Montana Joins Saint Leo as Tennis Coach Pablo Montana, a two-time national Coach of the Year with seven NCAA “Elite Eight” appearances, has been named the new head men’s and women’s tennis coach. He came to Saint Leo’s tennis program from California University of Pennsylvania, where over the last 12 seasons he has built one of the nation’s best Division II programs. Prior to that position, Montana was the assistant men’s tennis coach at Vanderbilt University (TN), assisting in the Commodores’ ascension as a preeminent Division I program. Montana has been on the staff at the College Tennis Academy in Tampa, FL, since 2012 and also currently serves as the tennis director at Camp Winadu in Pittsfield, MA. Montana played tennis collegiately at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he earned All-America honors in 1994, 1995, and 1996, and was a two-time All-SEC selection in 1995 and 1996. He went on to play professionally on the ATP Tour, achieving a ranking of No. 368 in the world. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in liberal arts from Regents College (NY), and earned a Master of Arts degree in geography and regional planning from California University of Pennsylvania.


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