Eastern Michigan Athletics
EMU Athletes Turn in Record-Setting Year
7/5/2007 3:21:56 PM | General
Eagles excel in academics and athletics
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YPSILANTI, Mich. — It was a record-smashing season in both athletics and academics for Eastern Michigan University student-athletes in 2006-07.
A total of 13 Eagles earned first-team Academic All-American honors this past year with women’s basketball player Sarah VanMetre (Noblesville, Ind.-Noblesville) and women’s diver Sarah Chrzanowski (West Bloomfield, Mich.-Walled Lake Central) named to ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA teams. Men’s cross country runner Corey Nowitzke (Monroe, Mich.-Monroe) was selected Academic All-American by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and men’s golfer Graham Hill (Brights Grove, Ontario, Canada-Northern Collegiate) was named a Cleveland Golf All-American by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Four women’s golfers, Courtney Aili (Chelsea, Mich.-Chelsea), Kelly Boogaard (Grand Rapids, Mich.-South Christian), Stephany Fleet (Dewitt, Mich.-Dewitt) and Marjorie Thuot (Joliette, Quebec, Canada-Therese-Martin) were named to the National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars list. On the rowing front, Lisa Dejules (Southgate, Mich.-Anderson) 3.51 Dietetics, Arrielle Foust (Findlay, Ohio-Findlay) 3.82 Speech and Language Pathology, Katie Larder (Deckerville, Mich.-Deckerville) 3.50 Sociology, Elizabeth Logsdon (Port Clinton, Ohio-Port Clinton) 3.77 Geography/Social Studies,and Rebecca Ohnmeiss (Marquette, Mich.-Marquette Senior) 3.68 Nursing were all named to the College Rowling Coaches Association Academic All-American team.
VanMetre and Chrzanowski, along with baseball player Jeff Hehr (Boardman, Ohio-Cardinal Mooney), football player Andrew Wellock (Canton, Ohio-Green) and women’s swimmer Madeleine Pilchard (Marietta, GA-George Walton), were all selected to Academic All-District IV teams with VanMetre, Chrzanowski and Hehr garnering first-team honors while Wellock and Pilchard were second-team selections.
A total of 10 EMU standouts were also selected for the prestigious weekly MAC Schlolar-Athlete Award which is given to just one male and one female student-athlete from nominees of all 12 league schools. EMU’s weekly scholar-athletes for 2006-07 were: women’s golfer Stephanie Fleet (DeWitt, Mich.-Dewitt), Oct. 5; women’s track and cross country runner Kallie Williams (Dexter, Mich.-Dexter), Oct. 12; Nowitzke, Nov. 2; Pilchard, Dec. 7 and Feb. 22; VanMetre, Jan. 4; women’s tennis player Vanessa Frankowski (Stuttgart, Germany-Albertus Magus Gym), Feb. 8; wrestler Cory Mancuso (Brockway, Pa.-Brockway Area), Feb. 22; men’s golfer Graham Hill (Brights Grove, Ontario, Canada-Northern Collegiate); and Aimee Woodrum (Cincinnati, Ohio-Sycamore).
In addition, a record 35 Eagles were singled out for first-team Academic All-Mid-American Conference honors in 2006-07.
The men’s cross country team jump-started 2006-07 with a Mid-American Conference championship in the fall and the men’s outdoor track and field team closed out the year on a winning note late in the spring with a title at the 2007 MAC Championship.
In between those league titles the Eagles also added MAC crowns in men’s and women’s swimming and diving, men’s indoor track, women’s gymnastics, men’s golf and women’s softball to shatter the MAC record for league titles in one season with eight. The eight league crowns were the most won by one university in an academic year in MAC history, breaking the mark of six held jointly by Central Michigan (2003-04) and Western Michigan (1984-85).
A complete list of EMU athletics highlights for the 2006-07 year can be found on the next 10 pages.
