May 25, 2011 (.pdf, 20.8M) - United States Air Force Academy

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011
Athletics recognizes 2010-11 outstanding student athletes
By Athletic Communications
Air Force Athletics recognized
outstanding cadet-athletes at the end
of the 2010-11 sports season during
the Academy’s annual awards ceremony.
Scholar-athlete award: Senior swimmer
Eric Robinson is majoring in
mathematics and
has a 3.99 overall
grade point average
while maintaining
a perfect
4.0 GPA in his
major. Robinson
has helped the
men’s swimming
team to backto-back
second
place finishes in the Mountain West
Conference while earning individual
all-conference honors twice. He was
also the team’s co-captain this season
and has top 10 Air Force times in the
200 freestyle and the 200 butterfly.
Athletic leadership award: Senior
Daniel Trapani earned All-American
honors for the second time in three
years while helping the fencing team
to a second place
national finish
in the epee at the
NCAA Championships.
Trapani
competed
all four years
at the NCAA
Championships
and finished his
career with a 177-
Robinson
Trapani
58 record. A four-year letterman,
Trapani was the team’s MVP in 2009
and earned the award this season,
but asked the coaching staff to give
it to a fellow teammate, who he felt
deserved it more for his sacrifices for
the betterment of the team.
Athletic Excellence: Senior defensive
back Reggie Rembert was named
a first-team
All-American
by the American
Football Coaches
Association and a
third-team selection
by the Associated
Press. He
is the program’s
first first-team
All-American and
Rembert
most decorated player since Carlton
McDonald in 1992. Rembert was
also on the Hornung Award watch
list as the most versatile player in college
football and was a Lowes Senior
Class award nominee. He finished the
season with 51 total tackles, including
two tackles for loss. He also had
a team-best three interceptions which
ranked fifth in the conference and 10
pass breakups which tied for second.
Rembert was awarded the inaugural
National Football League Players
Association Military Academy Player
of the Year award in 2010.
Outstanding athletic achievement:
Senior co-captain Justin Tyner
claimed first-team All-American
honors for the second straight year,
after placing fifth in the 3,000-meter
run at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
He also
ran the anchor leg
of the distance
medley relay
team garnering
second-team All-
American honors.
During the indoor
season, Tyner won
Mountain West
Conference titles
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Monreal
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in the 3,000- and 5,000-meter races,
en route to earning the league’s High
Point Award. He also ran the final leg
for the DMR team that shattered the
Academy record at the Alex Wilson
Invitational. Tyner’s success continued
outdoors, where he won a MWC
title in the 5,000-meter run with
a stadium-record time, posted an
Academy record in the 1,500-meter
run and clocked the nation’s secondfastest
3,000-meter steeplechase time.
He was named the MWC Athlete
of the Week on two occasions this
spring and is ranked among the
nation’s top 30 in the steeplechase,
1,500-meter run and 5,000-meter run.
Female most-valuable athlete:
Christen Monreal, a senior from San
Antonio, Texas,
played all 23 of
her singles matches
at the No. 1
singles spot. She
won 14 overall
singles matches
and 16 doubles
matches, including
10 at the No.
2 spot with freshman
Anastasia Hueffner. Monreal
finished third on the school’s career
singles wins list with 75, and sixth
with 62 victories. Monreal is also the
recipient of the 2011 Cissey Leary
Award for Sportsmanship for the
Mountain Region, which consists of
21 schools.
Male most-valuable athlete: Senior
forward Jacques Lamoureux led the
team with 24 goals and 44 points this
season. A secondteam
all-conference
selection,
Lamoureux was
named the MVP
at the American
Hockey Association
Tournament
as he helped lead
Air Force to its
fourth AHA title
Lamoureux
in five years. He scored the gamewinner
in both games at the AHA
Final Four. His 13 power-play goals
led the nation and his five gamewinners
were the 10 th most in the
country. He closed out his career
ranked sixth in Academy history
with 79 goals scored, the most by
any Falcon in the last 25 years.
His 136 career points rank 15th
in school history. This season, he
broke the league record with 59 career
goals in conference games. The
Grand Forks, N.D., native became
the first Academy athlete to win
the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award,
which recognizes excellence in competition,
classroom, character and
community.
Congratulates the
Class of 2011!
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