Murray State University Athletics
MSU Director of Athletics presented the MSU Student Athlete Advistory Council's female and male athlete of the year awards to Alexis Love (Track & Field) and Isaiah Canan (Men's Basketball)
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MSU SAAC Wraps Up School Year With Awards Dinner
5/8/2012 2:50:00 PM | General
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The season-ending awards were handed out Monday by the Murray State Student-Athlete Advisory Council as they honored the best of the best in the 2011-12 school year at the Curris Center in Murray, Ky.
The annual awards are voted on the 300-plus MSU student athletes.
Special recognition is also given to all graduating seniors in MSU Athletics from last December and from the 2011-12 school year.
Included in the awards were, the Team Academic Award which was earned by the MSU women's soccer team. The Community Service Award was given to the MSU men's basketball team.
Mariah Robinson and Jewuan Long of the MSU basketball teams were given the Racer Spirit Award. The award is given to one male and one female that demonstrate class and character on and off the field, but also go above and beyond to represent MSU student-athletes in all types of campus organizations.
Isaiah Canaan and Alexis Love were honored with the MSU Athlete of the Year Award. Love, a 100m and 200m sprinter, is having a great season for MSU Track & Field. She has already been named the Ohio Valley Conference Female Track Athlete of the Year and USTFCCCA Indoor All-America. Love's efforts made her a qualifier for the USA Olympic Trials in the 100m run. Canaan was the OVC Men's Basketball Player of the Year and a six-time All-America by: Associated Press, CBS, National Basketball Coaches Association, United States Basketball Writers Association, John Wooden and CollegeInsider.com (Lute Olson Award).
The Newcomer of the Year Award was given to a pair of freshmen from softball and men's basketball. Casey Castile is hitting .351 this spring for the Racers with 11 home runs and 44 RBI in 51 games. Zay Jackson appeared in all 33 games for the Racers and helped the team to the NCAA Tournament by playing 18.4 minutes per game.
Steve Prohm of MSU men's basketball was named the Coach of the Year after he turned in one of the best rookie seasons in the history of college basketball. Prohm led MSU to a 31-2 mark that included a win in the NCAA Tournament. Prohm was named Basketball Times National Coach of the Year and to the Joe B. Hall Award, as well as OVC Coach of the Year.
The Ginger Adams Spirit Award was given to Kailyn Swoboda and Kaytlin Young. The award is presented to a member of the MSU cheer team who best exemplifies the personal characteristics which made Ginger Adams a special person. Adams passed away in 1995 in a van crash while returning from the Nashville airport with the rest of the cheer team after the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Ginger had an unbridled spirit and enthusiasm for Racer Athletics, had a diligent and successful pursuit of academic studies and had a personality which reached out to all who came to know her.
The end of the evening also included honoring graduating senior student athletes. Special recognition was also given to those that accomplished what MSU Athletics calls “Four Years-Two Goals”…Leaving Murray State with a diploma in one hand and a championship ring on the other.
Four Years/Two Goals
Men's Basketball – Ivan Aska, Jewuan Long, Donte Poole
Men' Golf – Tyler Brown, William Hunt
Women's Basketball – Kayla Lowe, Mallory Schwab
Rifle – Kaitlin Cleven, Kyle Donnan, Ashley Rose
Soccer – Sophie Hargreaves, Maja Nordahl, Veronika Pribyslavska
Women's Golf – Morgan Cross, Madolyn Parker
Graduating Seniors
Baseball – Bryan Babin, Tyler Beers, Will Handlin, Travis Isaak, Cody Larson, Curran McNeely, Jacob Rhodes, Paul Ritzheimer, Mark Roberts, Luke Shuemaker
Men's Basketball – Ivan Aska, Jewuan Long, Donte Poole
Men's Cross Country – Trent Scott
Football – Rochard Biers, Darius Buck, Andre Clarke, Jamal Crook, Kienan Cullen, Alex Estes, Tyler Evans, Joe Gamsky, Dontrell Johnson, Paul Lewis, Elbert Ojendis, Brock Rydecki, Roderick Tomlin, Julian Whitehead
Men's Golf – Tyler Brown, William Hunt
Men's Tennis – Jose Berardo
Rifle - Kaitlin Cleven, Kyle Donnan, Ashley Rose
Women's Basketball - Kayla Lowe, Mallory Schwab
Women's Cross Country – Track & Field – Lexie Barr, Kayla Crusham, Rebecca Hbetamu, Jami Kloenne, Rebecca Lamb, Amber Mills, Bridget Stichnot
Women's Golf – Morgan Cross, Madolyn Parker
Women's Soccer – Sophie Hargreaves, Maja Nordahl, Veronika Pribyslavaka
Softball – Megan Glosser, Chelsey Sullivan, Alaina Zloty
Women's Tennis – Cassidy Cunitz, Ashley Pierson, Lindsey Wiseman
Volleyball – Mary Cunningham, Teresa Krog, Kayleah Sauer, Cassandra Woolverton
4.0 Fall Semester GPA
Baseball - Tyler Beers, Will Handlin, Travis Isaak, Tyler Saltsman, Colton Speed
Women's Cross Country – Track & Field – Kayla Crusham, Rebecca Lamb, Anne Jablinski
Men's Cross Country – Jordan Althoff, Trent Scott
Football – Richard Biers, Christian Duncan, Marc Wynstra
Men's Golf – Andrew Mitchell
Women's Golf – Delaney Howson
Men's Tennis – Daniel Heibel
Women's Tennis - Cassidy Cunitz
Women's Soccer – Gina Killion, Julie Mooney, Sonja Murphy, Katie Wilson
Softball – Alexa Becker, Leslie Bridges, CheyAnne Gaskey, Shelby Kosmecki
Volleyball – Kelsey Van Oss
The season-ending awards were handed out Monday by the Murray State Student-Athlete Advisory Council as they honored the best of the best in the 2011-12 school year at the Curris Center in Murray, Ky.
The annual awards are voted on the 300-plus MSU student athletes.
Special recognition is also given to all graduating seniors in MSU Athletics from last December and from the 2011-12 school year.
Included in the awards were, the Team Academic Award which was earned by the MSU women's soccer team. The Community Service Award was given to the MSU men's basketball team.
Mariah Robinson and Jewuan Long of the MSU basketball teams were given the Racer Spirit Award. The award is given to one male and one female that demonstrate class and character on and off the field, but also go above and beyond to represent MSU student-athletes in all types of campus organizations.
Isaiah Canaan and Alexis Love were honored with the MSU Athlete of the Year Award. Love, a 100m and 200m sprinter, is having a great season for MSU Track & Field. She has already been named the Ohio Valley Conference Female Track Athlete of the Year and USTFCCCA Indoor All-America. Love's efforts made her a qualifier for the USA Olympic Trials in the 100m run. Canaan was the OVC Men's Basketball Player of the Year and a six-time All-America by: Associated Press, CBS, National Basketball Coaches Association, United States Basketball Writers Association, John Wooden and CollegeInsider.com (Lute Olson Award).
The Newcomer of the Year Award was given to a pair of freshmen from softball and men's basketball. Casey Castile is hitting .351 this spring for the Racers with 11 home runs and 44 RBI in 51 games. Zay Jackson appeared in all 33 games for the Racers and helped the team to the NCAA Tournament by playing 18.4 minutes per game.
Steve Prohm of MSU men's basketball was named the Coach of the Year after he turned in one of the best rookie seasons in the history of college basketball. Prohm led MSU to a 31-2 mark that included a win in the NCAA Tournament. Prohm was named Basketball Times National Coach of the Year and to the Joe B. Hall Award, as well as OVC Coach of the Year.
The Ginger Adams Spirit Award was given to Kailyn Swoboda and Kaytlin Young. The award is presented to a member of the MSU cheer team who best exemplifies the personal characteristics which made Ginger Adams a special person. Adams passed away in 1995 in a van crash while returning from the Nashville airport with the rest of the cheer team after the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Ginger had an unbridled spirit and enthusiasm for Racer Athletics, had a diligent and successful pursuit of academic studies and had a personality which reached out to all who came to know her.
The end of the evening also included honoring graduating senior student athletes. Special recognition was also given to those that accomplished what MSU Athletics calls “Four Years-Two Goals”…Leaving Murray State with a diploma in one hand and a championship ring on the other.
Four Years/Two Goals
Men's Basketball – Ivan Aska, Jewuan Long, Donte Poole
Men' Golf – Tyler Brown, William Hunt
Women's Basketball – Kayla Lowe, Mallory Schwab
Rifle – Kaitlin Cleven, Kyle Donnan, Ashley Rose
Soccer – Sophie Hargreaves, Maja Nordahl, Veronika Pribyslavska
Women's Golf – Morgan Cross, Madolyn Parker
Graduating Seniors
Baseball – Bryan Babin, Tyler Beers, Will Handlin, Travis Isaak, Cody Larson, Curran McNeely, Jacob Rhodes, Paul Ritzheimer, Mark Roberts, Luke Shuemaker
Men's Basketball – Ivan Aska, Jewuan Long, Donte Poole
Men's Cross Country – Trent Scott
Football – Rochard Biers, Darius Buck, Andre Clarke, Jamal Crook, Kienan Cullen, Alex Estes, Tyler Evans, Joe Gamsky, Dontrell Johnson, Paul Lewis, Elbert Ojendis, Brock Rydecki, Roderick Tomlin, Julian Whitehead
Men's Golf – Tyler Brown, William Hunt
Men's Tennis – Jose Berardo
Rifle - Kaitlin Cleven, Kyle Donnan, Ashley Rose
Women's Basketball - Kayla Lowe, Mallory Schwab
Women's Cross Country – Track & Field – Lexie Barr, Kayla Crusham, Rebecca Hbetamu, Jami Kloenne, Rebecca Lamb, Amber Mills, Bridget Stichnot
Women's Golf – Morgan Cross, Madolyn Parker
Women's Soccer – Sophie Hargreaves, Maja Nordahl, Veronika Pribyslavaka
Softball – Megan Glosser, Chelsey Sullivan, Alaina Zloty
Women's Tennis – Cassidy Cunitz, Ashley Pierson, Lindsey Wiseman
Volleyball – Mary Cunningham, Teresa Krog, Kayleah Sauer, Cassandra Woolverton
4.0 Fall Semester GPA
Baseball - Tyler Beers, Will Handlin, Travis Isaak, Tyler Saltsman, Colton Speed
Women's Cross Country – Track & Field – Kayla Crusham, Rebecca Lamb, Anne Jablinski
Men's Cross Country – Jordan Althoff, Trent Scott
Football – Richard Biers, Christian Duncan, Marc Wynstra
Men's Golf – Andrew Mitchell
Women's Golf – Delaney Howson
Men's Tennis – Daniel Heibel
Women's Tennis - Cassidy Cunitz
Women's Soccer – Gina Killion, Julie Mooney, Sonja Murphy, Katie Wilson
Softball – Alexa Becker, Leslie Bridges, CheyAnne Gaskey, Shelby Kosmecki
Volleyball – Kelsey Van Oss
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