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2018-19

July, 2018 - Wabash President Dr. Gregory D. Hess, was selected to serve as the vice president for a one-year term beginning with the 2018-19 academic year ... Kenyon's Julia Wilson was named the winner of the Pam Smith award while Jason Wesseling was selected the Don Hunsinger award winner ... DePauw Associate Vice President for Campus Wellness and Theodore Katula Director of Athletics and Recreational Sports Stevie Baker-Watson was named the 2018 NCAA DIII Athletic Director of the Year by Women Leaders in College Sports ... Wooster men's tennis senior Titas Bera and women's golf senior Emily Howerton, along with Oberlin cross country and track & field senior Lilah Drafts-Johnson were recipients of the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, selected on their athletic and academic achievements, along with their work in the community and demonstrated leadership. A total of six NCAC student-athletes earned NCAA Postgraduate scholarships for the 2017-18 fall, winter and spring sport seasons, including Kenyon's Kelsey Trulik and Julia Wilson, and Wooster's Patrick Mohorcic ... Kenyon's Julia Wilson was named to the Top 30 for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.

October, 2018 - Allegheny College junior wide receiver Alex Victor was featured in the "Faces In The Crowd" section of the Oct. 4 issue of Sports Illustrated ..The Wooster women's soccer team used four goals against Wittenberg to capture the 2018 NCAC Women’s Soccer Tournament Championship; its first NCAC tournament title. The Fighting Scots advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1996.

November, 2018 - Denison quaterback Canaan Gebele was named a semifinalist for the 2018 Gagliardi Trophy, which is presented to the most outstanding football player in NCAA Division III ... DePauw senior Hunter Sego was named to the 2018 Allstate American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Good Works Team. Among 169 nominees from all levels of college football, Sego was one of a select group of just 22 student athletes and an honorary head coach to be recognized with the Good Works Team designation ..

December, 2018 - Denison sophomore Michelle Kabaira was named the Division III Field Hockey Great Lakes Region Player of the Year by Longstreth and the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA). Kabaira was the thirdstraight recipient from the North Coast Athletic Conference ... Denison field hockey head coach P.J. Soteriades and assistant coach Kellie Jasinski were recognized by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) as the Coaching Staff of the Year in the Great Lakes Region.

January, 2019 - Kenyon women's swimming graduate Julia Wilson was honored as a 2019 Today's Top 10 Award winner at the NCAA Convention.

February, 2019 - Wabash men's basketball sophomore guard Jack Davidson broke the NCAA basketball record for the most consecutive free throws made across all divisions with 95, breaking a 20-year record.

March, 2019 - Denison University Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics, Nan Carney-DeBord, was selected as the 2018-19 Division III Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics ... Denison men's swimming & diving captured its fifth NCAA Division III national championship in Greensboro, NC. Kenyon men's swimming sophomore David Fitch was named the 2019 Division III Men's National Swimmer of the Year after winning two individual event titles and setting the national record in the 100 butterfly (46.92). Kenyon head coach Jess Book was also named the national Women's Coach of the Year after guiding his team to a second-place finish, 21 Top-8 All-American performances and four national championship titles ... Allegheny track & field senior Emily Forner finished as the national champion in the women’s 3,000-meter run, recording a winning time of 9:39.56, more than six seconds quicker than Middlebury’s Rory Kelly who finished in second with a time of 9:45.85. Forner became the fifth national champion in Gators’ track & field history

May, 2019 - Ohio Wesleyan track & field junior Cirrus Robinson won her second-consecutive outdoor national championship in the high jump. The junior cleared the first five heights on her first attempt ending at 5'07.00". The title was Robinson's fourth national high jump title, including two indoor and two outdoor crowns ... The 11th-ranked Kenyon men's tennis team wrapped up its season in the third round of the NCAA Division III Men’s Tennis Championships. After receiving a bye in the first round, the Lords advanced to the third round with a 5-2 win over No. 24 Johns Hopkins in the second round ... The NCAC hosted its inaugural Health & Wellness Symposium focusing on the mental health of student-athletes, coaches, athletics staff and administrators, at Ohio Wesleyan University. More than 244 NCAC members attended multiple sessions throughout the day on a variety of topics, making it one of the largest NCAC non-championship events in our 35 year history ... The NCAA awarded Kenyon swimmers, Brooks McCoy, Hannah Orbach-Mandel and Abby Wilson with NCAA Postgraduate scholarships.

June, 2019 - The NCAC named Wabash baseball senior Erich Lange as the 2019 Don Hunsinger Award winner while Kenyon swimming & diving senior Hannah Orbach-Mandel was tabbed the Pam Smith Award winner ... A record total of 771 student-athletes were named to the 2018-19 NCAC Academic Honor Roll following the academic year. The honorees were selected from all 10 full-time NCAC institutions and one affiliate member. Each full-time institution had at least 29 student-athletes named to the Academic Honor Roll for an average of 77 student-athletes per school.