Ozone Park Native Isaac Acosta named Handball Team's Men's Most Valuable Player

The junior at Lake Forest College was the Open Doubles Champion.

LAKE FOREST, IL (03/30/2012)(readMedia)-- The Lake Forest College Athletic Department held its annual Winter Sports Awards Ceremony on Sunday, March 25, at the First Presbyterian Church in Lake Forest. Among the many awards given out were plaques for each sport's Most Valuable and Most Improved Performers.

Senior Maria Dugas (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and junior Isaac Acosta (Ozone Park, N.Y.) were voted the Forester handball team's Most Valuable Players while freshman Brooke Perkins (Denver, Colo.) and junior Justin Novak (Miami, Fla.) were the national champions' Most Improved Players. Dugas earned All-America honors after finishing as the Open Singles and Doubles runner-up at the United States Handball Association Collegiate National Championships. Acosta was a semifinalist in Open Singles and (with freshman C.J. Laffey) the Open Doubles champion. Perkins won her first three matches at the national tournament to reach the B Singles round of 16. Novak advanced to the B Singles semifinals on the men's side.

It was a successful winter for the Lake Forest College Athletic Department. In addition to recording a fourth straight sweep of the men's, women's, and combined team titles in the U.S. Handball Collegiate National Championships, the Forester women's swimming & diving team captured its first Midwest Conference championship since 1998 and the men's basketball team finished atop the standings to claim its first league title since 2000. The men's swimming & diving team was the conference's runner-up, the women's basketball and hockey teams reached the semifinals in their respective conference tournaments, and the men's hockey team advanced to the quarterfinals of the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association's playoffs.