Recent Kenyon College graduate Curtis Ramsey (Wilmington, DE/Charter School of
Wilmington) has been selected as the recipient of the
2013 North Coast Athletic Conference Don Hunsinger Award.
Ramsey, who was a four-year member of the Lords' men's swimming
& diving team, capped off his career by collecting the 2013
NCAC Men's Swimmer of the Year honor after winning the 50- and
100-freestyle events and also swimming legs on the winning 200 free
relay, 400 free relay and 400 medley relay at the 2013 NCAC
Swimming & Diving Championships. Ramsey has also excelled in
the pool at the national level as he owns 15 All-American
certificates, including three national titles in the 200 free relay
and two national titles in the 400 free relay. In addition, Ramsey
was a key contributor in helping the Lords capture their 32nd
national title this past winter at the 2013 NCAA Division III
Swimming & Diving Championships.
In the classroom, Ramsey graduated Summa Cum Laude with a 3.91
grade-point-average as an economics major and a physics and
mathematics minor. Selected to the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor
Society and the Pi Mu Epsilon National Honorary Mathematics
Society, he also earned Kenyon's 2013 Jess Willard Falkenstine
Award which is awarded to a scholar-athlete who best displays the
distinguished characteristics of both leadership and integrity and
was also the recipient of the Elmer A. Graham Endowed Scholarship
Fund in 2012. He also shared his wealth of knowledge in his
discipline by serving as a peer tutor in the economics department
from 2011-13.
Among his numerous academic accolades, Ramsey was recognized as
the 2013 Capital One Academic All-American of the Year after being
the top vote-getter in balloting for the 2013 Capital One Academic
All-America Men's At-Large selections. He put an exclamation mark
on his academic and athletic career by earning one of the NCAA's
prestigious post-graduate scholarships.
Ramsey was also actively involved in the campus community during
his time at Kenyon as he was selected to serve on the Alumni
Leaders of Tomorrow committee and was also a voting member on the
institution's Budget and Finance committee. Along with his talents
in the pool, Ramsey was also a four-year member of KC's Symphonic
Wind Ensemble in the French Horn section.
Ramsey was one of five outstanding nominees considered for the
selection committee. The candidates were:
This award commemorates former Oberlin administrator and coach Don
Hunsinger, who had a far-reaching influence on the athletes he
coached in a wide variety of sports. Over more than three decades,
Hunsinger served Oberlin as athletic director, chairman of the
department of physical education, had stints as head coach for
Yeoman football, baseball, and men’s and women’s
tennis, and assisted with the men’s and women’s
basketball programs. Four times he earned NCAC Coach of the Year
recognition, twice in men’s tennis and twice in
women’s. Hunsinger, who retired from the College in 2008,
continues to serve the conference as Director of Tennis and assists
in the administration of the conference’s swimming &
diving championship.
The award recognizes one male senior student-athlete who has
distinguished himself throughout his collegiate career in the areas
of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and
leadership. Each conference institution can nominate a
distinguished male student-athlete for the honor. A committee of
North Coast Athletic Conference administrators, in conjunction with
the conference office, makes the selection.