W&L's Madison, GC's Smith Win Top ODAC Honors
FOREST, Va. --- One school received its
record 19th season-ending individual honor while the other earned
just its second such prize as the ODAC Board of Directors announced
its top two individual student-athlete awards on Monday.
Washington and Lee University cross country and track star Annelise
Madison was recognized as the Marjorie Berkley Award recipient,
while Guilford College baseball standout John Macon Smith took home
the Harry G. "Doc" Jopson Award.
Inaugurated in 1984 and 1981, respectively, the Marjorie Berkley
and Harry G. "Doc" Jopson Scholar-Athlete Awards are given each
spring to member college seniors and conference sport participants
who exhibit the highest athletic, academic, and extracurricular
achievements. Ms. Berkley began her collegiate teaching
career at Lynchburg College. Several years later, Ms. Berkley
moved to Hollins University where she coached tennis, field hockey
and soccer, and served as the athletic director for 30 years.
The Jopson Award is named in honor of the Bridgewater College
professor and coach who retired in 1981 following 45 years at BC.
Dr. Jopson, who initiated and directed the Eagles' cross country
and track programs, led his teams to ODAC indoor track titles in
1979, 1980 and 1981, and outdoor crowns in 1978 through 1981.
A four-year letterwinner for the cross country and track and field
teams, Madison is the eighth General to win the Berkley Award and
W&L's 19th overall conference high-honor recipient. She
was a national qualifier in cross country in 2013, punching her
ticket to Hanover, Ind., by placing fifth in the NCAA
South/Southeast Regional. She finished 143rd out of 280 runners at
the NCAA Championship, which was the best finish by a General at
the national meet since Elizabeth Webb '09 finished 115th at the
2008 championship. At the ODAC Cross Country Championships,
Madison helped the Generals to a third place showing (97 points) by
finishing fifth overall and earning All-ODAC First Team honors for
the second time in her career. She finished fifth in 2011 as
well.
On the track, Madison is a two-time ODAC individual champion as
she won the indoor mile in 2012 and 2014. She's had five
runner-up finishes, affording her All-ODAC Second Team honors, and
picked up nine All-ODAC Third Team accolades across the indoor and
outdoor campaigns. She individually holds a pair of schools
records in the indoor 800-meter run and the outdoor 1,500-meter
run, and joins her teammates in owning the Generals' indoor
4x800-meter relay standard.
Madison, a politics and history double major, has earned ODAC/Farm
Bureau Insurance Scholar Athlete Awards four times over her career,
including the cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field
honors in 2013-14. A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Beta
Phi, Madison has earned several scholarships and grants, including
a W&L's Johnson Scholarship. She also earned the Johnson
Opportunity Grant, which afforded her the opportunity to volunteer
at the Ghana Alliance for Community Transformation (Ghana ACT) in
Ho, Ghana.
Madison is a two-time Capital One Division III Academic
All-District® honoree, earning that distinction in 2014 in
addition to an All-District laurel in 2013. She owns a spot
on the District 5 First Team this season, which makes her eligible
for CoSIDA Academic All-America consideration. She also recently
earned W&L's William D. McHenry Female Scholar-Athlete
Award.
A two-time Capital One Division III Academic All-District® 5
honoree, Smith is the second Quaker to earn ODAC top honors and
first to win the Jopson Award. He upped the ante on his
Academic All-District accolades by recently earning Capital One
Division III Academic All-America® First Team honors. He
is the seventh Quaker to receive Academic All-America distinction
and just the second to hold a place on the first team. He recently
became the fifth baseball All-American in school history with his
selection to the American Baseball Coaches Association's Third Team
NCAA Division III All-America squad. He earned First Team All-ODAC
baseball recognition in April and was also named the winner of the
ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Baseball Scholar-Athlete Award for a
second straight season.
Smith, a 6-2, 205-pound first baseman, also earned All-South
honors from the ABCA and from D3baseball.com. The two-time
First Team All-ODAC selection led the ODAC in both batting average
(.459) and on-base percentage (.531), while finishing in the
top-five in several other categories including runs (44-5th), hits
(68-4th), triples (4-3rd), runs batted in (40-4th), total bases
(102-3rd) and slugging percentage (.689-3rd). He enjoyed
several moderate hitting streaks this season, including a 14-game
run that included an effort where he hit safely in 18 of his final
20 games played. Through games of May 27, Smith ranked
seventh among NCAA Division III batting average leaders, ninth in
on-base percentage, 28th in slugging percentage, 33rd in runs per
game, and 45th in hits. He totaled a team-high 23 multiple-hit
contests, 10 multiple-RBI games and reached base at least once in
all 38 games played.
In three Guilford seasons, Smith recorded a .417 batting average
with 23 home runs and 124 RBI. He set the school's career record
for hits per game (1.63). Smith ranks second in school history in
batting average, sixth in runs (125), and sixth in RBI. He was
named to five all-region teams, and three All-ODAC squads.
In the classroom, Smith graduated earlier this month with high
honors and a 3.83 grade point average. The dean's list accounting
major is a six-time member of Guilford's Student-Athlete Honor Roll
and three-time Academic All-ODAC selection. He was recognized for
outstanding achievement by an accounting student at Guilford's 2014
Awards Convocation and has an internship with McGladrey LLP this
summer. Smith will pursue a master's degree at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro in the fall.
2014 Harry G. “Doc” Jopson Award
Nominees
Kyle Boden, Emory & Henry College (football,
quarterback)
John Macon Smith, Guilford College (baseball, first base)
2014 Marjorie Berkley Award Nominees
Elizabeth Cheng, Hollins University (golf)
E'leyna Garcia, Guilford College (lacrosse, attack)
Cortney Halsey, Emory & Henry College (softball, outfield)
Annelise Madison, Washington and Lee University (cross
country/track)
Tempe Martens, Virginia Wesleyan College (volleyball, outside
hitter)
Rachel Sadowski, Lynchburg College (soccer, centerback)
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