SCHENECTADY, N.Y. - Junior Julia Bancheri of the women's soccer team and senior Chloe Matthews of the women's swimming & diving team have been named the Highmark Student-Athletes of the Week for the week ending Sunday, October 18.

Bancheri played a role in all three goals for Union as part of a 1-0-1 week that kept the Garnet Chargers unbeaten in Liberty League play. The junior scored from the penalty spot to give Union a lead in an eventual 1-1 tie with #19 Hamilton on Tuesday, the team's fourth straight result against a nationally ranked opponent this season. She then adding a goal and an assist in Saturday's 2-0 victory over Ithaca, scoring the game-winning goal in the 76th minute and then assisting on an insurance goal with less than six minutes remaining. 

Matthews won the 100 butterfly and earned spots on the podium in her three other events on Saturday as Union defeated Westfield State and Roberts Wesleyan and lost to Smith in a quad-meet at Alumni Gym Pool. Matthews posted a season-best 26.47 while finishing second in the 50 freestyle and went 2:07.39 during a third-place 200 free performance. Along with her victory in the 100 fly (1:03.63), Matthews also helped propel Union's 200 medley relay to a second-place finish after going 22.29 in the fly leg of the race.