TCU Athletics Announces Student-Athletes of the Month
1/18/2009 12:00:00 AM | General
Jan. 18, 2009
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The TCU Athletics Department announced Helena Sverrisdottir and the football team's senior class as its Student-Athletes of the Month while the H2O women's 800-freestyle relay and Josh Bagby were selected as Scholar-Athletes of the Month.
Helena Sverrisdottir | Sophomore | Hafnarfjordur, Iceland
Sverrisdottir averaged 17.0 points, 8.2 rebounds and 5.7 assists per game while leading the Lady Frogs during a six-game schedule (five on the road). She posted two double-doubles and three 20-point efforts. In her final contest of the month, she scored a season-best 22 points while adding career bests with 13 rebounds and three blocked shots vs. SMU (Dec. 30). Sverrisdottir also was named MVP of the Contra Costa Times Classic in Berkeley, Calif., as TCU won the tournament title by upsetting No. 3 Cal on Dec. 7.
TCU Football Senior Class
After a 17-16 win over No. 9 Boise State in the Poinsettia Bowl, the 2008 TCU seniors leave campus as the winningest class in school history with 41 victories. The 2008 TCU football senior class includes the following: Aaron Brown, Walter Bryant, Andy Burrell, William Cage, Steven Coleman, Drew Combs, Kagen Elenburg, John Fonua, Austin Galifaro, James Gleaton, Robert Henson, Stephen Hodge, Giles Montgomery, Cody Moore, Matt Panfil, Jason Phillips, Preston Phillips, Heath Raetz, Shae Reagan, Blake Schlueter, James Vess and Justin Watts.
Among the many achievements while donning the Purple and White, the seniors accomplished a 41-10 (.804) overall record and 21-7 (.750) conference mark. The 41 victories broke the previous mark for the most wins in TCU history over a four-year period (40, 1932-35). The Frogs reaches a bowl game each season (2005 Houston, 2006 Poinsettia, 2007 Texas, 2008 Poinsettia) and a earned 4-0 record in those contests for the first four-game bowl winning streak in TCU history.
TCU was 5-2 overall versus Big 12 opponents and 7-2 overall record in games
against teams from leagues with automatic BCS bids. The team finished the 2008 season with a No. 7 ranking by AP and USA Today, marking the Frogs' highest appearance in a season-ending poll since 1959. In the time spent at TCU, the class earned twenty all-conference selections, including nine in 2008. The Frogs also played well in front of the Frog faithful, registering a 21-2 record (.913) in home games at Amon G. Carter Stadium.
TCU Swimming 800-free relay squad
At the 2008 ConocoPhillips Short Course National Championships, the women's 800-free relay team shined on the second day of action in Atlanta. The squad of freshmen Ashley Bolin, Kaitlyn Vann, Lindsey Stevens and junior Stephanie Futscher recorded an impressive showing, notching the school's third-fastest time of 7:30.63 to finish 14th out of 27 teams in the final. Bolin, a freshman from Oshkosh, Wis., led off the event and turned in a time of 1:51.15, the second-best finish in TCU history and just .05 behind Maria Paula Alvarez' school record.
Josh Bagby | Junior | Houston, Texas
Also in Atlanta, Bagby set a TCU record in the 100-free event on day two of the 2008 ConocoPhillips Short Course National Championships. Bagby broke Jonathan Berrettini's previous school-record time of 44.70 set in 2007 with a time of 44.64 in the 100-free preliminary.
The Houston, Texas, native had previously sat fourth on TCU's all-time list before his performance Saturday. It is Bagby's first individual school record, as he has also been an integral part of three of the Frogs' top five relay squads (200-medley, 200-free, 400-free). Bagby also earned TCU Scholar-Athlete of the Month for his performance in and out of the water in October.
Players Mentioned
