MOREHEAD, Ky.— Morehead State athletics has won the Ohio Valley Conference’s Institutional Academic Achievement Award. It marks a league-record 10th time in 24 years MSU has been awarded the OVC’s highest academic honor.
The Eagles also had three sports (women’s cross country, women’s track and field, volleyball) honored with the Team Academic Achievement Awards, 17 student-athletes presented with the OVC’s Medal of Honor and 91 student-athletes on the Commissioner’s Honor Roll.
“This is one of the goals I push our coaches and our staff towards every year,” MSU Director of Athletics
Brian Hutchinson said. “I am extremely proud of our student-athletes and what they have accomplished. I also commend [Academic Athletic Coordinator]
Valerie Ousley and the work she and her staff do to ensure our student-athletes’ academic success.”
The Institutional Academic Achievement Award is presented annually to the member institution with the greatest percentage of its student-athletes named to the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll for that academic year. Morehead State has won the award in five of the past six years.
The team awards use the same criteria as the institutional award, applying it to each sport. The Medal of Honor is given annually to the student-athlete who achieves the highest grade point average in a Conference-sponsored sport. There were 1,042 student-athletes were named to the 2009-10 OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll, the second-highest total in the history of the award (trailing only the 1,044 award winners a season ago). To be listed, recipients must have achieved at least a 3.25 grade point average and have been eligible and on the team throughout the competitive season in their chosen NCAA-sponsored sport or sports.
Morehead State Medal of Honor Winners
Women’s Cross Country: Kate Bomar*, 4.00, Amanda Faust*, 4.00.
Men’s Golf: Michael Brown, 4.00.
Women’s Golf: Karolina Tunstig, 4.00.
Rifle: Shawn Holley, 3.90.
Soccer: Erin Adams, 4.00, Jillian Birchmeier, 4.00, Bethany Davidson, 4.00, Lily Meisner, 4.00, Samantha Toepfer, 4.00.
Women’s Track and Field: Kate Bomar*, 4.00, Amanda Faust*, 4.00, Jaimie Howard, 4.00.
Volleyball: Holly Evans, 4.00, Emma Keough, 4.00, Ellie Roberson, 4.00, Lindsey Ruddell, 4.00.
* denotes multiple sport winners.
2009-10 OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll – Morehead State Honorees
BASEBALL
Kellen Begeman
Michael Bottoms
Taylor Davis
Andrew Deeds
Michael Fear
Austin Haney
Jacob Helvey
Hunter Hewitt
Tyler Hieneman
Drew Lee
Quentin Morgan
Travis Redmon
Travis Thompson
Garrick Whittle
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Jamel Marshall
Ty Proffitt
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Kristin Raker
MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Patrick Fouch*
Josh Wakeman*
WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Kate Bomar*
Elizabeth Braunwart*
Amanda Faust*
Alexis King*
Holly Mandzak*
Ruth Millard*
Natalie Norman*
MEN'S GOLF
Michael Brown
Grant Hinton
Dean Schneider
WOMEN’S GOLF
Emma Eksell
Emma Jonsson
Marisa Kamelgarn
Karolina Tunstig
RIFLE
Kathleen Bush
Shawn Holley
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Erin Adams
Julie Arnold
Jillian Birchmeier
Kaitlyn Blevins
Bethany Davidson
Stephanie Gildehaus
Devan Jordan
Brittany Kiracofe
Brittany MacLennan
Lily Meisner
Alyss Nacke
Lauren Seebach*
Lindsay Stefanini
Samantha Toepfer
Arnie Weckenbrock
SOFTBALL
Kayla Brill
Bianca Cardenas
Bethany Ellis
Sarah Funston
Amber Riddle
Brittany Scheer
Samantha Sparks
Elizabeth Wagner
Brianna Williams
Samantha Woodall
MEN’S TENNIS
Gregory Anderson
Dusan Milovanovic
Christopher Shafik
WOMEN’S TENNIS
Catherine Butts
Lauren Delaney
Alixandra Lakow
Alexandra Rydberg
Kayla Tuscany
MEN’S TRACK & FIELD
Patrick Fouch*
Josh Wakeman*
Michael Wright
WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD
Megan Arnold
Kate Bomar*
Elizabeth Braunwart*
Amanda Faust*
Jaimie Howard
Alexis King*
Holly Mandzak*
Bree Massie
Ruth Millard*
Natalie Norman*
Lauren Seebach*
VOLLEYBALL
Aryn Bohannon
Kirstie Brangers
Caitlin Clark
Kaitlin Craven
Holly Evans
Anne Gruenschlaeger
Emma Keough
Ellie Roberson
Lindsey Ruddell
Kristina Schoo
Elizabeth Schuler
