{"id":4814,"date":"2021-05-12T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2021-05-12T13:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:20:49","slug":"cuc-athletic-banquet-returns-to-geiseman-gymnasium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"CUC Athletic Banquet Returns to Geiseman Gymnasium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After last year\u2019s cancelation, the annual CUC athletic banquet returned on Friday, April 23. The event, organized by SAAC, featured a dinner in the Cougar Den, a raffle, and an awards ceremony. Two hundred junior and senior student-athletes, coaches, athletic administrators, and active Student Athlete Advisory Committee members (SAAC) attended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The banquet started with an opening prayer from Pastor Matt Wietfeldt. Softball pitching coach Eileen Canney, an alumnus of both Northwestern University and Team USA Softball,\u00a0 spoke next about self-worth and overcoming personal fears.\u00a0 Then strength and conditioning coach Ken Howard used his fitness journey to highlight the importance of motivation and perseverance in athletics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A new addition to this year\u2019s banquet was the Charlies. Modeled after award shows like the ESPYs and the Grammys, each category winner was nominated and voted on by\u00a0 CUC student-athletes. Below is a list of all the winners:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Best Teammate: Zach Cicero (Football and Men\u2019s Lacrosse)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Coach of the Year: Russell Allen (Women\u2019s Lacrosse)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> GA\/Assistant of the Year: Tyrique Thomas (Track & Field)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 <\/span>Comeback Player of the Year: Justin Schwarz (Men\u2019s Basketball)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>Freshman of the Year: Bella Archuletta (Softball)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>Senior of the Year: Simone Wilson (Track & Field)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>Play of the Year: Brody Mariotti (Baseball)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>Female Athlete of the Year: Kayla Armstrong (Track & Field)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022<\/span> \u00a0<\/span>Male Athlete of the Year: Jack Liskey (Men\u2019s Lacrosse)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Other awards recognized included four-year athletes, post-season achievements, CUC scholar athletes, the Northwestern Mutual Student-Athlete Leadership Award, the A.W. Gross Award, and the Terry-Schubert Memorial Christian Service Award. The 44 four-year student athletes each received a personalized blanket as a gift at the banquet. The CUC Scholar Athlete Award honored 47 student athletes who were a member of a CUC athletic program for two years while earning at least a 3.7 cumulative GPA. The Northwestern Mutual Student-Athletes Leadership Award was awarded to senior men\u2019s Soccer captain Bryce Bilodeau. Bilodeau also was the male recipient of the A.W. Gross Award, which honors student-athletes who demonstrate proficiency in academics, athletics, character, conduct, leadership, and campus involvement. The female recipient was Simone Wilson of the track and field team.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terry-Schubert Memorial Christian Service Award recipients were Aaron Finkel and Angelina Nichols. The award recognizes student athletes with a positive attitude toward athletics, Christian living, service, and contribution to his or her team, and who demonstrate a concern for the Concordia community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,69,214],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-athletes","tag-awards","tag-cuc-atheltics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}