10 UMBC Athletes and Where They Are Now

Ray Barbosa - Basketball

UMBC’s leading scorer the year they won the America East championship was the sixth overall pick in the 2009 super league draft by the Bayamon Cowboys of the National Superior Basketball League in Puerto Rico. Barbosa has totaled 204 points in three seasons with 64 rebounds and 31 assists. The sharp-shooter has hit 35-percent of his three-pointers in his three seasons with the club.

Cleopatra Borel – Track and Field

In 2002 Cleopatra Borel put the Retriever’s track and field team on the map when she won a national championship in the indoor shot put.  Since her graduation Borel has been competing on a world level for her native Trinidad and Tobago, representing their track and field team in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, and 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China and was named the country’s 2010 Sportswoman of the Year. Borel has three gold medals in her professional career, winning the Central American and Caribbean Championships in 2008, 2010, and 2011. She is currently training with the potential to make a third trip to the Olympics.

Giuliano Celenza - Soccer

Giuliano Celenza accomplished in two seasons at UMBC what most players would dream of doing in their entire collegiate careers.  After transferring to UMBC from CCBC-Essex Celenza scored 41 goals and had 18 assists in his two years in a Retriever uniform and at the time set UMBC’s all-time scoring record with 100 points.  Celenza, who was named to two first-team all-conference teams and led UMBC to two conference championships and an NCAA tournament, graduated and played 11 seasons with the Baltimore Blast of the MiLS, retiring after the 2010-2011 season.  Celenza won five championships with the blast and finished his career with 437 points.

Zach Clark – Baseball

Since his graduation Zach Clark has been working his way up the minor league ranks after signing with the Orioles in 2006.  Clarke spent the 2011 season with Double-A Bowie Baysox, where he started 23 games and picked up 10 victories with 81 strikeouts.  Since joining the Orioles farm system Clark has 34 victories with a 3.93 earned run average, 366 strikeouts, and a 5.6 strikeout per nine innings average.

Andrew Feeley - Basketball

A key player for the Retrievers from 2001-2005 Andrew Feely has been a journeyman on the professional level for the past six years.  Since graduating Feeley has played for 13 teams around the world since and is currently with Gimnasia-Indalo Esgr.Comodoro Rivadavia of the Argentina-LigaA, where he is averaging 10.6 points and 5.1 rebounds per game.  Feeley played a significant amount of his career in Japan where he won a championship in 2009 with the Toyota Tsusho Fighting Eagles of the Japan-JB League.  That seasons Feeley was named a first-team league player, the Center of the Year, and Import Player of the Year.

Jay Greene - Basketball

Possibly the best player to ever put on a UMBC uniform, Jay Greene was the Retrievers starting point guard from 2005-2008 and helped lead the team to a conference championship in the 2007-2008 season.  Greene earned First-Team All-Conference honors during his junior and senior seasons while finishing his career with the most games played (122), most minutes played (4,192), most assists (683), and 1,186 career points.  After a professional career ended with a hip injury Greene started coaching and is now a member of UMBC’s staff.

Levi Houapeu - Soccer

No player in the nation scored more points than Levi Houapeu from 2009-2010.  In 2007 Houapeu had a strong start to his career when he was named to the America East Conference All-Rookie team but developed into an elite player his final two seasons when he totaled 30 goals and 17 assists.  His senior season Houapeu led UMBC to a conference championship and was named a Third-Team All-American.  Then, on January 13, 2011 Houapeu became the first Retriever to be selected in the MLS draft, reaching the highest division of American Soccer.  Houapeu was selected 41^st overall by the Philadelphia Union, where he spent the season on their developmental squad.

Brendan Mundorf - Lacrosse

After four tremendous seasons at UMBC in which he scored 112 goals and had 73 assists Brendan Mundorf became the 11^th overall pick in the 2007 NLL Entry Draft by the New York Titans and the 21^st overall pick in the 2006 MLL Collegiate Draft by the Denver Outlaws.  In six seasons with the Outlaws Mundorf has totaled 144 goals and 58 assists for 202 career points in 56 games and has made it to three all-star games.  In the NLL he has scored 74 goals with 75 assists for 149 career points in 43 games.  Mundorf has also played in two World Lacrosse Championships.  In 2006 he was a member of the Australian national team before switching to the United States national team for the 2010 tournament, where scored 17 goals in six games and was named to the FIL All-World team as USA claimed the championship.

Drew Westervelt - Lacrosse

After four very successful seasons with the Denver Outlaws, who selected him with the fourth overall pick in 2007, Drew Westervelt was traded to his home town Chesapeake Bayhawks last month.  The former All-American Retriever under Don Zimmerman Westervelt was the nation’s fifth leading scorer his senior season when he scored 35 goals and had 36 assists for 71 points in 2007.  His 206 points in a UMBC uniform ranks fourth in school history.  In four seasons Westervelt scored 89 goals, five two-point goals, and had 50 assists with the Outlaws in the MLL while scoring 39 goals with 23 assists in the indoor NLL league.  Westervelt was also a member of the 2010 USA FIL-World Championship team, where he scored 12 goals in six games.

Jay Witasick - Baseball

The first Retriever baseball player to ever make it the majors, Jay Witasick stuck around for 12 seasons, playing for eight different teams.  Witasick appeared in two World Series with the New York Yankees in 2001 and the San Francisco Giants in 2002.  A second round pick in the 1993 draft, Witasick won 32 professional games with 4.64 career ERA and 645 strikeouts.  His last appearance was in 2007 with the Tampa Bay Rays and has served as an assistant coach for the Hartford Community College baseball team since 2009.