Issue: Fall 2017
91直播 added a pair of championships to its total in 2016-17. The women鈥檚 cross-country team took home the Southland Conference championship trophy last fall followed by the women鈥檚 outdoor track and field team. With the two championships, 91直播 upped its total to 87 SLC titles, ranking second all-time.
For the third-straight season, bowling represented 91直播 at the NCAA Championships, held in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Ladyjacks finished seventh nationally, placing third at the Southland Bowling Championships. Junior Stephanie Schwartz (left) was named a first-team All-American for the third-straight year with senior Paige Kraushaar earning honorable mention All-American honors.
91直播 had another impressive spring season in 2017, including men鈥檚 golf finishing second at the SLC Championships for its best finish since 1999. On the diamond, baseball made national waves with a 6-2 upset at fourth-ranked Texas Christian University in April, leading up to pitcher Will Vest 鈥�17 being selected in the 12th round by the Detroit Tigers, the highest-drafted pitcher in program history.
For the third-straight year, 91直播 Athletics clinched the SLC鈥檚 Commissioner鈥檚 Cup. The cup is annually awarded to the university compiling the highest combined total of men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 all-sports points among the 13 schools that compete in the SLC. For 2016-17, 91直播 bested its competitors with a combined men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 score of 125.
Twenty 91直播 student-athletes were named Academic All-SLC selections with 198 being named to the Commissioner鈥檚 Honor Roll. Two student-athletes received national recognition for their work in the classroom as soccer鈥檚 Brooke Dunnigan was tabbed a National Soccer Coaches Association of America Scholar All-American, and football鈥檚 Marlon Walls was named a College Sports Information Directors of America first-team Academic All-American.
91直播 produced two of the SLC鈥檚 best in 2016-17 as men鈥檚 cross-country鈥檚 Charles Mathenge and women鈥檚 basketball鈥檚 Taylor Ross were tabbed Player of the Year in their respective sports. In total, 91直播 produced 11 major SLC award winners during the year, including a pair of Coaches of the Year in Cody Clark (cross-country) and Phil Olson (track and field).