TCU award winners honored at all-sports banquet
4/26/2007 12:00:00 AM | General
April 26, 2007
FORT WORTH, Texas - The TCU Athletics Department honored its top student-athletes Monday night at the annual TCU All-Sports Banquet at the Brown-Lupton Student Center. A pair of female student-athletes, sprinter Virgil Hodge and volleyball player Anna Vaughn, each corralled three trophies.
Hodge won Pop Boone Female Athlete of the Year accolades, the William Koehler Academic Achievement Award and was also team Most Valuable Player. The junior currently owns the nation's third-fastest time in the outdoor 100 meters, and holds school records in the 60 and 200 meters. Hodge won three events at the 2007 Mountain West Conference Indoor Championships and earned All-America honors for the second time in her career at the 2007 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships (200 meters). The St. Kitts native is a communications major who attended high school in Bronx, N.Y.
Vaughn (Grapevine, Texas) was named the Dutch Meyer Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, claimed the Chancellor's Award and also won team MVP honors. A double major in Spanish and political science, Vaughn earned first-team Academic All-District VI plaudits in 2006. She was a 2007 Rhodes Scholar nominee and was recently awarded an NCAA Post Graduate Scholarship. On the court, she ranks as the school's all-time leader in aces and hitting percentage.
Quarterback Jeff Ballard was recognized as the Pop Boone Male Athlete of the Year. In 2006, he was a second-team All-MWC selection, a two-time MWC Offensive Player of the Week and the Poinsettia Bowl's Offensive Most Valuable Player. Over two years, he led the Frogs to a school-best winning percentage of .905 and became just the fourth TCU football player to be named the team's two-time team Most Valuable Player. He did not throw an interception in his final 154 pass attempts, the fourth-longest streak in the nation, and completed 61.9 percent of his passes for 2,394 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Baseball player Austin Adams (Henderson, Texas) earned Dutch Meyer Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year accolades. An academic all-conference performer each season, the right fielder is a senior management major. On the field, he was named first-team All-Mountain West Conference as a junior and was the Conference USA Tournament MVP as a freshman. This year, Adams leads the team with eight home runs and a career-high 45 RBIs.
The Hal Jay Community Spirit Athlete Award, which is presented annually to a TCU student-athlete who has gone above and beyond in the field of community service, was awarded to Camille Blackerby. Blackerby, a senior, was an all-conference performer for the women's golf team, which won the MWC championship and is currently ranked among the nation's top 25. Her charitable work includes assisting the Lena Pope Home, M.D. Anderson Hospital, Reading Frogs, Presbyterian Soup Kitchen and Tarrant County Food Bank.
The MVPs of the women's teams included: Adrianne Ross (basketball), Carrie von Uhlit (equestrian), Catherine Matranga (golf), Erin Lorenzen (rifle), Katy Buchanan (soccer), Erica Tate (swimming), Ana Cetnik (tennis), Hodge (track) and Vaughn (volleyball).
Men's team MVP winners were: Keith Conlon (baseball), Kevin Langford (basketball), Ballard (football), Guillermo Ramirez (swimming), Cosmin Cotet (tennis) and Delwayne Delaney (track).
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