Logan Stieber of Ohio State and Matt Brown of Penn State named Athletes of the Year at their college
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Photos of NCAA champions Logan Stieber of Ohio State and Matt Brown of Penn State by Tony Rotundo, Wrestlers Are Warriors
2015 NCAA champions Logan Stieber of Ohio State and Matt Brown of Penn State were named Male Athlete of the Year at their institutions.
Both will become eligible for Big Ten Male Athlete of the Year. Each Big Ten institution will submit a Male and Female athlete for this prestigious award.
OHIO STATE PRESS RELEASE
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Seniors Logan Stieber and Ashley Bauer were named 2014-15 Ohio State Athletes of the Year on Wednesday. Stieber, a member of the wrestling team, and Bauer, from the women’s rowing team, will be placed on the ballots for the Big Ten Male and Female Athlete of the Year awards, presented later this month.
Stieber, from Monroeville, Ohio, capped his record-breaking career in March by becoming just the fourth wrestler in NCAA history to win four national titles. In the process, he also helped the Buckeyes to their first NCAA team title in the 94-year history of the sport in Columbus. His accomplishments include:
• The first wrestler in the history of the Big Ten Conference to win four NCAA titles
• First Buckeye in history to win the Dan Hodge Trophy, presented to the nation's top wrestler and considered to be the Heisman Trophy of the sport
• First Ohio State wrestler to ever win four Big Ten titles
• Finished his career on a 50-match winning streak dating back to December 2013
• Fastest Buckeye to reach the 100-win milestone (103 matches)
• Winning percentage ranks first in Ohio State history (.975)
• NCAA's Most Dominate Wrestler, NWCA Most Outstanding Wrestler and AWN Pound For Pound Award winner
Stieber is the third Buckeye to win Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year twice in his career. Having won the award as a junior in 2014, Stieber joins Jim Jackson (basketball, 1991-92) and Jamie Natalie (gymnastics, 2000-01) as two-time winners. He is one of only two wrestlers, along with current assistant coach J Jaggers (2009), to win the award.
A native of New Albany, Ohio, Bauer helped the Buckeyes to their third consecutive NCAA team title this season as Ohio State became the first school in NCAA rowing history to win three national championships in a row. The 2015 Big Ten Rowing Athlete of the Year rowed in the five seat of Ohio State’s first varsity eight, which won Big Ten and NCAA titles on its way to an undefeated season at 49-0 overall and 15-0 in races. Bauer collected First Team All-America, All-Big Ten and All-Central Region honors as a senior in 2015.
Bauer is the third consecutive member of the rowing team to be named Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year, joining Claire-Louise Bode (2013) and current junior Catherine Shields (2014).
Ohio State Male Athletes of the Year who were wrestlers
Year - Athlete, Sport
2009 - J Jaggers, Wrestling
2014 - Logan Stieber, Wrestling
2015 - Logan Stieber, Wrestling
PENN STATE PRESS RELEASE
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; June 17, 2015 – As the 2014-15 athletic season concludes, Penn State Athletics has named wrestler Matt Brown (West Valley City, Utah) and women’s volleyball player Micha Hancock (Edmond, Okla.) as its Male and Female Student-Athletes of the Year. Brown and Hancock will be on the ballot for Big Ten Athletes of the Year.
The honors are the latest in a long list of accolades for both athletes and this marks the second straight year that standouts from women’s volleyball and wrestling have been named Penn State’s Student-Athletes of the Year (Deja McClendon and David Taylor in 2013-14).
Brown and Hancock were instrumental in helping Penn State win a combined five NCAA Championships during their superlative careers, with national wrestling titles in 2012-14 and women’s volleyball crowns in 2013 and ’14.
Brown became Penn State’s 24th three-time All-American this past March as he rolled to the 174 pound championship at the NCAA Championships. Brown posted a 29-3 record this past season. He capped off his career with a 5-0 run through the NCAA Championships to claim his first individual crown and leaves Penn State with a 118-16 career record, 12th all-time in wins and 11th all-time in pins with 30. Brown rolled to a 14-1 dual meet record this year, including a perfect 9-0 mark in Big Ten duals. All told, Brown will leave Penn State with 118 wins, 44 dual meet victories, 23 Big Ten dual wins, 30 pins, 11 tech falls, 35 majors and 196 dual meet points. Brown placed first, second and fifth at nationals and was a two-time national finalist for Coach Cael Sanderson. Brown leaves Penn State a member of three NCAA Championship and three Big Ten Championship teams and competed in the NWCA All-Star Classic once and was Penn State’s 2015 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner for wrestling.
Brown was recently named the CoSIDA Men’s At-Large Academic All-American of the Year after earning his second first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honor. A criminology and international studies major, he was also recently honored with a prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and was Penn State’s male recipient of this year’s Big Ten Post-Graduate Scholarship. He was one of four Nittany Lion wrestlers to earn first team NWCA National All-Academic laurels as well (the third time he has been honored as such). He was also recently named Penn State’s male recipient of the McCoy Award and was also a 2013 first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American. The 2013 Elite 89 Award Winner as the nation’s top wrestling student-athlete, Brown was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree as well.
Hancock, a communications arts and sciences major, closed out a superlative four-year career as one of the most prolific student-athletes in program history. As the starting setter and team captain for Coach Russ Rose, she guided the Nittany Lions to back-to-back NCAA national championship crowns in 2013 and ’14, as well as the team’s 16th Big Ten title in 2013. She highlighted her career with one of the top awards in collegiate volleyball, earning 2014 AVCA DI National Player of the Year honors, to become the fourth Nittany Lion in program history to garner the prestigious honor. A three-time first team AVCA All-America honoree, she also earned AVCA All-Northeast honors in each of the last three seasons. Hancock also earned her third consecutive All-Big Ten selection in 2014, having earned Big Ten Setter of the Year honors from 2012-13.
Hancock earned numerous additional awards in 2014, including five Big Ten Setter of the Week honors, ESPNW Volleyball Player of the Week honors and her second AVCA DI National Player of the Week award. She was also a 2014 ESPN ESPY nominee for "Best Female Collegiate Athlete.” In addition to the honors and recognition, Hancock made an impressive mark on several record books throughout her time in the Blue and White. In 2014, she finished the year ranked first nationally in aces and aces per set. She holds both the Penn State and the Big Ten single season aces record (126), having also moved into sole possession of first place on the NCAA single-season 25-point scoring format aces list. Her 380 career aces also ranks first on the Penn State and Big Ten all-time lists.
Brown and Hancock will be on the ballot for Big Ten Male and Female Athletes of the Year with 26 other nominees. Selected members of the media who regularly cover the conference and its teams will vote for the winners of the awards.
2015 NCAA champions Logan Stieber of Ohio State and Matt Brown of Penn State were named Male Athlete of the Year at their institutions.
Both will become eligible for Big Ten Male Athlete of the Year. Each Big Ten institution will submit a Male and Female athlete for this prestigious award.
OHIO STATE PRESS RELEASE
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Seniors Logan Stieber and Ashley Bauer were named 2014-15 Ohio State Athletes of the Year on Wednesday. Stieber, a member of the wrestling team, and Bauer, from the women’s rowing team, will be placed on the ballots for the Big Ten Male and Female Athlete of the Year awards, presented later this month.
Stieber, from Monroeville, Ohio, capped his record-breaking career in March by becoming just the fourth wrestler in NCAA history to win four national titles. In the process, he also helped the Buckeyes to their first NCAA team title in the 94-year history of the sport in Columbus. His accomplishments include:
• The first wrestler in the history of the Big Ten Conference to win four NCAA titles
• First Buckeye in history to win the Dan Hodge Trophy, presented to the nation's top wrestler and considered to be the Heisman Trophy of the sport
• First Ohio State wrestler to ever win four Big Ten titles
• Finished his career on a 50-match winning streak dating back to December 2013
• Fastest Buckeye to reach the 100-win milestone (103 matches)
• Winning percentage ranks first in Ohio State history (.975)
• NCAA's Most Dominate Wrestler, NWCA Most Outstanding Wrestler and AWN Pound For Pound Award winner
Stieber is the third Buckeye to win Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year twice in his career. Having won the award as a junior in 2014, Stieber joins Jim Jackson (basketball, 1991-92) and Jamie Natalie (gymnastics, 2000-01) as two-time winners. He is one of only two wrestlers, along with current assistant coach J Jaggers (2009), to win the award.
A native of New Albany, Ohio, Bauer helped the Buckeyes to their third consecutive NCAA team title this season as Ohio State became the first school in NCAA rowing history to win three national championships in a row. The 2015 Big Ten Rowing Athlete of the Year rowed in the five seat of Ohio State’s first varsity eight, which won Big Ten and NCAA titles on its way to an undefeated season at 49-0 overall and 15-0 in races. Bauer collected First Team All-America, All-Big Ten and All-Central Region honors as a senior in 2015.
Bauer is the third consecutive member of the rowing team to be named Ohio State Female Athlete of the Year, joining Claire-Louise Bode (2013) and current junior Catherine Shields (2014).
Ohio State Male Athletes of the Year who were wrestlers
Year - Athlete, Sport
2009 - J Jaggers, Wrestling
2014 - Logan Stieber, Wrestling
2015 - Logan Stieber, Wrestling
PENN STATE PRESS RELEASE
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.; June 17, 2015 – As the 2014-15 athletic season concludes, Penn State Athletics has named wrestler Matt Brown (West Valley City, Utah) and women’s volleyball player Micha Hancock (Edmond, Okla.) as its Male and Female Student-Athletes of the Year. Brown and Hancock will be on the ballot for Big Ten Athletes of the Year.
The honors are the latest in a long list of accolades for both athletes and this marks the second straight year that standouts from women’s volleyball and wrestling have been named Penn State’s Student-Athletes of the Year (Deja McClendon and David Taylor in 2013-14).
Brown and Hancock were instrumental in helping Penn State win a combined five NCAA Championships during their superlative careers, with national wrestling titles in 2012-14 and women’s volleyball crowns in 2013 and ’14.
Brown became Penn State’s 24th three-time All-American this past March as he rolled to the 174 pound championship at the NCAA Championships. Brown posted a 29-3 record this past season. He capped off his career with a 5-0 run through the NCAA Championships to claim his first individual crown and leaves Penn State with a 118-16 career record, 12th all-time in wins and 11th all-time in pins with 30. Brown rolled to a 14-1 dual meet record this year, including a perfect 9-0 mark in Big Ten duals. All told, Brown will leave Penn State with 118 wins, 44 dual meet victories, 23 Big Ten dual wins, 30 pins, 11 tech falls, 35 majors and 196 dual meet points. Brown placed first, second and fifth at nationals and was a two-time national finalist for Coach Cael Sanderson. Brown leaves Penn State a member of three NCAA Championship and three Big Ten Championship teams and competed in the NWCA All-Star Classic once and was Penn State’s 2015 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner for wrestling.
Brown was recently named the CoSIDA Men’s At-Large Academic All-American of the Year after earning his second first-team CoSIDA Academic All-America honor. A criminology and international studies major, he was also recently honored with a prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and was Penn State’s male recipient of this year’s Big Ten Post-Graduate Scholarship. He was one of four Nittany Lion wrestlers to earn first team NWCA National All-Academic laurels as well (the third time he has been honored as such). He was also recently named Penn State’s male recipient of the McCoy Award and was also a 2013 first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American. The 2013 Elite 89 Award Winner as the nation’s top wrestling student-athlete, Brown was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree as well.
Hancock, a communications arts and sciences major, closed out a superlative four-year career as one of the most prolific student-athletes in program history. As the starting setter and team captain for Coach Russ Rose, she guided the Nittany Lions to back-to-back NCAA national championship crowns in 2013 and ’14, as well as the team’s 16th Big Ten title in 2013. She highlighted her career with one of the top awards in collegiate volleyball, earning 2014 AVCA DI National Player of the Year honors, to become the fourth Nittany Lion in program history to garner the prestigious honor. A three-time first team AVCA All-America honoree, she also earned AVCA All-Northeast honors in each of the last three seasons. Hancock also earned her third consecutive All-Big Ten selection in 2014, having earned Big Ten Setter of the Year honors from 2012-13.
Hancock earned numerous additional awards in 2014, including five Big Ten Setter of the Week honors, ESPNW Volleyball Player of the Week honors and her second AVCA DI National Player of the Week award. She was also a 2014 ESPN ESPY nominee for "Best Female Collegiate Athlete.” In addition to the honors and recognition, Hancock made an impressive mark on several record books throughout her time in the Blue and White. In 2014, she finished the year ranked first nationally in aces and aces per set. She holds both the Penn State and the Big Ten single season aces record (126), having also moved into sole possession of first place on the NCAA single-season 25-point scoring format aces list. Her 380 career aces also ranks first on the Penn State and Big Ten all-time lists.
Brown and Hancock will be on the ballot for Big Ten Male and Female Athletes of the Year with 26 other nominees. Selected members of the media who regularly cover the conference and its teams will vote for the winners of the awards.
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