LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ - The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) celebrates its 40th Anniversary throughout the 2020-21 academic year, continuing its mission to provide student-athletes the opportunity to succeed in both academics and athletics.

The 40th Anniversary Swimming and Diving Team highlights some of the best student-athletes in MAAC history. MAAC Swimming and Diving traces back to 1984, when La Salle swept the first MAAC Championship for both the men and women. Marist College leads the conference with 12 men's championships and 18 women's championships. On the men's side, Rider University has 10 titles while former MAAC member La Salle University holds seven of their own.

The MAAC Swimming and Diving Championships are hosted by Canisius College and Niagara University and are set to return Feb. 10-13 in 2021 at the Burt Flickinger Center in Buffalo, New York. The following are Rider's honorees on the MAAC 40^th Anniversary Teams:

Head Coach

Steve Fletcher
Fletcher has been the leader of Rider's men's swimming and diving dynasty, while also guiding the women's team to consistent success. He's the 11-time Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Coach of the Year on the men's side, while earning women's Coach of the Year twice. In his 19 years, Fletcher has led his teams to 10 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles with the men (2004, 2012-20), one ECAC title with the men (2005), two MAAC titles with the women (2009, 2003) and has compiled 22 MAAC runner-up finishes. He has come home with 18 MAAC Diver of the Year awards and 17 MAAC Most Outstanding Performers.

Women

Amanda Burke '10
Burke was a three-time Rider Female Athlete of the Year and a two-time National Champion in her post-graduate career. She became Rider's first-ever diver to qualify for Nationals and was a three-time NCAA qualifier. She earned three MAAC and ECAC Diver of the Year honors, taking home seven MAAC and seven ECAC gold medals. Burke owns all five Rider team diving records and all four Rider Pool diving records, as well as both MAAC diving records. She was named to the Mid-Major All-America Swimming and Diving Team by collegeswimming.com and continued her diving career for six years after college, earning National Champion honors in the one-meter dive at the 2011 AT&T National Championships, as well as three-meter synchronized diving at the 2014 AT&T National Championships with Ariel Rittenhouse. Burke reached the finals of the U.S. Diving Olympic Trials in the 3-meter springboard in 2016. In 2012, Burke also qualified in the 3-meter Synchronized Springboard dive and placed third, with the top two teams going to the Olympics. Burke competed as a member of the Olympic Performance Squad as a synchronized diver, representative of the top 25 divers in the nation. She placed seventh in the world at the 2013 FINA World Aquatic Championships in Barcelona, Spain, and placed third at the 2013 AT&T National Diving Championships in the 1-meter in Iowa.

Priscilla Modrov '09
Modrov still holds Rider records in 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly, 200 individual medley and 400 individual medley. She was a three-time MAAC Championship Most Outstanding Performer and two-time ECAC Championship Most Outstanding Performer. In 2009, she was a CoSIDA Academic All-America finalist as a First Team All-District All-Academic honoree. At 2009 MAAC Championships, she won three individual events and swam on four winning relays for seven gold medals and seven new MAAC records. At the 2009 ECAC Championships, she won the 200 butterfly in an ECAC record time, won the 200 individual medley in an ECAC record time and won the 400 individual medley, breaking her own ECAC record. As a junior, she won the ECAC 400 IM (ECAC record) and won the 200 IM (Rider record). At the 2008 MAAC's, she set MAAC records in 200 butterfly, the 400 IM and the 100 butterfly. She earned 2008-09 Rider Athlete of the Year and won 19 gold medals and nine silver medals over four years at Rider. She graduated with seven individual MAAC records, multiple relay records, eight Rider team records and four relay records, four pool records and one relay record.

Melissa Michalov '03
The Rider University Athlete of the Year for the 2002-2003 academic school year, Michalov was named the Most Outstanding Swimmer at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships, just the second swimmer to win the award.  Michalov won seven gold medals in seven events, while setting four MAAC and five Rider records in the freestyle, backstroke and medley relay. In her career, Michalov earned 20 MAAC gold medals, three Rider pool records, nine team records and eight MAAC records.

Jen O'Reilly '00
O'Reilly was twice the Rider female Athlete of the Year, was a three-time Andrew J. Rider Scholar, and was named one of the top 25 Performers in the 25-year history of the MAAC. She graduated with 24 MAAC gold medals, including four straight 100 freestyle MAAC Championships, eight team records, four Rider pool relay records and two MAAC relay records. O'Reilly became Rider's first-ever Barry Goldwater Scholarship Award recipient, a national academic honor.

Kellyanne Tomasula '10
Tomasula still holds Rider's 100 and 200 back, while contributing to program records in the 400 medley relay, 200 free relay and 400 free relay. She capped her Rider career, breaking her own record in the 200 back (1:59.60) to win gold at the 2010 ECAC Championships. She also won silver in the 100 back. At MAAC Championships as a senior, she won three gold (100 back, 200 back, 400 free relay), two silver (200 IM, 400 medley relay) and a bronze (200 free relay). As a junior at the 2009 MAAC championships, she broke her own MAAC records and set two Loyola pool records winning the 100 back (56.01) and 200 back (2:00.30). She was also a member of the winning 400 free relay that clinched the MAAC Title and was a member of the second place 200 medley relay and placed third in the 200 IM (2:06.43). At the 2009 ECAC championships, she part of the winning 200 free relay team that set an ECAC record with a time of 1:35.37, and was also second in the 200 back and third in the 100 back.


Men

Zack Molloy '18
Molloy was a three-time MAAC Outstanding Male Swimmer in leading Rider to four-straight MAAC Swimming & Diving Championships. He also earned Rider Male Athlete of the Year three times. He owns the MAAC record in the 100, 200 and 500 free, while being a part of the relay teams that own the records in the 200, 400 and 800 free relays. He won 17 MAAC Championship gold medals in his four years with the Broncs.

Justin Carey '20
Carey rewrote the Rider Men's Swimming & Diving record books in his four years with the Broncs, taking ownership of five MAAC Championship meet records in the 50 backstroke and 100 backstroke and as part of the 200 medley, 400 freestyle and 800 freestyle relay teams. He set seven team records in the 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke and 100 butterfly, as well as the 200 medley relay, 400 medley relay, 400 freestyle relay and 800 freestyle relay. Carey is also the holder of five Coppola Pool records in the 100 freestyle, 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly and 200 medley relay and holds two long course meters team records in the 100 backstroke, 100 butterfly. He became Rider's first-ever MAAC Student-Athlete of the Year in 2020.

Brandon Modrov '07
Modrov was a three-time MAAC Most Outstanding Swimmer. As a senior, Modrov set the Rider record in the 100 breaststroke (56.29), the 200 breaststroke (2:03.16), the 200 IM (1:51.20), the 400 IM (3:59.75). The Rider Male Athlete of the Year for 2005-06 as a junior, he finished first in the 200 IM (1:52:01), 400 IM (3:59:75), and the 200 breast (2:05:60). He was also part of the winning 200 free relay, the 200 medley relay, the 400 medley relay, the 800 free relay, and the 400 free relay. At the 2006 ECAC Championships, he placed second in the 200 breast (2:05:85) and was part of the winning 200 medley relay, the fourth place 400 medley relay and the 400 free relay which placed eighth.

Rob Baier '03
A six-time MAAC Champion and four-time MAAC Most Outstanding Diver, Baier was also the conference's record holder in 3-meter diving at the time of his graduation. He was the first Rider diver ever win a medal at the MAAC Championships and the first Bronc to qualify for the NCAA Zone Championships.

Dylan Korn '08
Korn still holds the diving record in the MAAC on the 3 meter springboard event and was named MAAC Diver of the Year in three-straight years. He was also named ECAC Diver of the Meet in 2005.