DANBURY, Conn. - Coming off of its second straight victory over service academy foes, the Navy gymnastics team was rewarded on Wednesday with a pair of ECAC weekly honors. The freshmen duo of Riley Rose (Las Vegas, Nev.) and Isaiah Drake (Los Angeles, Calif.) were selected as the conference's Specialist and Rookie of the Week for their respective efforts at Saturday's  All-Academy Championship in Frisco, Texas.

A regular in Navy's high bar lineup throughout the team's first five competitions, Rose found himself tied for top billing on the apparatus with a 13.05 score on Saturday. For the second straight meet, Rose recorded the same score as his teammate Drake as they tied with matching 13.3 scores the previous week against Army. A first-time award-winner in terms of ECAC weekly honors, Rose currently ranks 22nd in the nation for his work on the high bar as he has a 13.083 average.

Honored with a weekly award in each of his first five weeks of action, Drake turned in top-level results once again as tied for the highest high bar score (13.05), while placing second on the pommel horse (13.5) and vault (14.2) and fourth on the rings (13.35) at the 2022 All-Academy Championship. In the all-around standings of the service academy tri-meet, he was third overall with 77.7 points.

As a program, these are the eighth and ninth ECAC awards Navy gymnasts have garnered in 2022 ... 
    Jan. 19 - Josh Williams (Specialist of the Week) ... Isaiah Drake (Rookie of the Week)
    Jan. 26 - Ronan McQuillan (Specialist of the Week) ... Isaiah Drake (Rookie of the Week)
    Feb. 2 - Isaiah Drake (Gymnast of the Week)
    Feb. 9 - Isaiah Drake (Gymnast of the Week) ... Connor Van Loo (Specialist of the Week)
    Feb. 16 - Riley Rose (Specialist of the Week) ... Isaiah Drake (Rookie of the Week)

The Mids will be back in ECAC league action this Sunday with a road tilt at Springfield College. First touch at Blake Arena is scheduled at 12 p.m.