| Ryan Rummel | Dana Mecke |
FRISCO ? Twenty-four student-athletes have been selected as 2009 Southland Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year, the league office announced on Thursday. The awards are presented by Capital One Bank.
The conference annually recognizes the outstanding male and female student-athletes from each of the league’s member institutions. Student-athletes must be a letterwinner with a minimum 3.20 cumulative grade-point average and have completed at least two years of intercollegiate competition at the school from which he or she was nominated. The student-athletes were selected by their respective institution administrators.
The award was instituted at the conclusion of the 1996-97 season.
2008-09 Southland Conference Scholar-Athletes of the Year
Central Arkansas
Tye Throneberry, baseball
Chloe Smith, volleyball
Lamar
Samuel Kosgei, men's cross country/men's track & field
Mariantonieta Gutierrez, women's tennis
McNeese State
David Ballard, football
Maggie Welch, women's golf
Nicholls
James Terrebonne, men's golf
Leslie Boureois, women's track & field
Northwestern State
Michael McConathy, men's basketball
Cary Bruno, softball
Sam Houston State
Barkley Falkner, men's basketball
Kendra Spivey, softball
Southeastern Louisiana
Matthew Carvell. men's golf
Dana Mayer, soccer
Stephen F. Austin
Tim Knicky, football
Frednisha Marshall, women's track & field
UT Arlington
Matthew Otteman, baseball
Caroline Erlingson, women's cross country/women's track & field
UTSA
Ryan Rummel, baseball
Dana Mecke, women's cross country/women's track & field
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Arisel Perez, men's cross country
Andrea Simancas, softball
Texas State
Paul Goldshmidt, baseball
Ashley Ellis, women's tennis