SALEM, Va. --- The two-year hiatus in bestowing arguably the most prestigious of Division III basketball honors comes to a close today with the announcement of the two winners of the 2022 Jostens Trophy awards. Kenedy Schoonveld from recently crowned national champion Hope College is the recipient of the women's honor, while Jack Davidson from Division III semifinalist Wabash College garnered the men's trophy.

The Jostens Trophy honors are national awards created by the Rotary Club of Salem and sponsored by Jostens, Inc., to recognize the most outstanding men's and women's Division III basketball players of the year. The awards focus on three major criteria: basketball ability, academic prowess, and service to one's surrounding communities. The Jostens Trophy models the Rotary International motto of "Service Above Self" by recognizing those who truly fit the ideal of a well-rounded Division III student-athlete. The 2022 season marks the 24th time the Jostens Trophy honors have been awarded.

In addition to the Trophy, the Wooldridge Scholarship, a $1,000 donation, will be presented in the names of the winners to their institutions. The scholarship is named after Dan Wooldridge, a Salem Rotarian and the retired commissioner that founded the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC), for his long-time dedication to Division III athletics.

The winners were chosen by a 27-person national selection committee composed of men and women from across the country. The committee features current and former athletic administrators and head coaches, past Jostens Trophy recipients, and select members of the Division III media. The members of the national selection committee cast their votes based on three criteria: basketball ability, academic prowess, and community service.

KENEDY SCHOONVELD FROM NATIONAL CHAMPION HOPE COLLEGE WINS THE 2022 JOSTENS TROPHY

"In my 26 years as the head coach at Hope College, Kenedy Schoonveld is the best player I've ever coached," explained Hope head coach Brian Morehouse. "The real beauty to Kenedy lies in her work off the court, serving the at-risk population through her work with local social work organizations, her work with students with special needs, as well as serving for a summer in Africa at an orphanage."

Schoonveld, a senior from Zeeland, Mich., has earned enough awards through five seasons at Hope to fill a large room. Recently named both the WBCA and D3hoops.com Division III Player of the Year, Schoonveld is a six-time All-American with three laurels each from the WBCA and D3hoops.com. Twice she earned D3hoops.com Co-Great Lakes Regional Player of the Year recognition, and received the Region 7 Player of the Year honor outright this season. She also earned D3hoops.com Co-Great Lakes Rookie of the Year distinction in 2017-18. She is a five-time First Team choice by the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) with a trio of league MVP honors. She also earned MIAA Rookie of the Year recognition in 2018.

This season, Schoonveld led Hope to its third Division III championship in the program's fourth appearance in the final game. She averaged 11.1 points while shooting 49.1-percent from the field, 41.8-percent from three-point range, and 83.0-percent from the foul line. She pulled down 4.0 rebounds per game and dished out 70 assists (2.1/g) with 53 steals and 17 blocked shots. She boasted an impressive 3.30 assist-to-turnover ratio. Schoonveld will graduate as the Flying Dutch's all-time second leading scorer with 1,479 points with 263 assists and 198 steals. She shot .488 (559-of-1146) from the field, .400 (167-of-417) from beyond the arc, and .808 (194-of-240) from the foul line. Schoonveld never missed a game during her career. Her 138 games played were all as a starter and serve as the team record.

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In the classroom, Schoonveld boasts a 3.8 GPA as a social work major. She has been accepted into Baylor University's graduate school for social work, an opportunity she was able to delay for a year so she could play her fifth season of basketball in 2021-22. She will soon become a five-time member of the MIAA Academic Honor Roll, and has previously been honored by the conference with the Sheila Wallace Kovalchik Award as the conference's top female student-athlete. She earned Academic All-America distinction from CoSIDA in 2021.

Schoonveld's community service exploits have been numerous, focusing on work with children of special needs. She worked with local area Special Olympics chapters for three years prior to the pandemic. She spent three years at a Miracle League baseball and softball facility designed for those with special needs. The former vice-president for the Phi Alpha social work honor society served one year in a dementia unit at Resthaven Good Shepherd's Home.

Schoonveld traveled abroad to further her reach helping those in need. She spent one summer in Africa in Lesotho interning with Beautiful Gate Lesotho Childcare Centre. Beautiful Gate was founded in 2001 in response to the overwhelming rates of orphaned, abandoned, HIV-infected, and other vulnerable children in Lesotho. Beautiful Gate focuses on providing residential care for infants and children predominantly between the ages of birth and five years old.

JACK DAVIDSON FROM DIVISION III SEMIFINALIST WABASH COLLEGE WINS THE 2022 JOSTENS TROPHY

“Driven, talented, focused, compassionate. Jack Davidson is all of these things on and off the court, but so much more," explained Wabash College head coach Kyle Brumett. "Jack is the most driven basketball student-athlete that I have coached in my 23 years at the Division III level."

Davidson, a senior from Fishers, Ind., features a full trophy case of athletic and academic honors that began in 2017-18 with the Newcomer of the Year award from the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) and was the only first-year athlete to earn all-league status that season. He is a four-time All-NCAC honoree and twice honored as the NCAC Player of the Year. He is a three-time All-American, earning high recognition twice from the NABC and once from D3hoops.com. He is a former region player of the year for both outfits and also earned a spot on the NABC Honors Court following the 2019-20 season.

This season, Davidson finished third in the country in scoring at 25.5 points per game and led Division III with 817 total points scored. As prolific a scorer as he is, Davidson surprises with his efficiency as a "50/40/90" shooter. Twice he has posted shooting percentages at or better than 50-percent from the field -- .497 (192-of-386) in 2018-19 and .530 (242-of-457) in 2021-22 -- 40-percent from three-point range -- .434 (66-of-152) in 2018-19 and .482 (123-of-255) in 2021-22 -- and 90-percent from the foul line -- .931 (202-of-217) in 2018-19 and .909 (210-of-231) in 2021-22. Davidson became the all-time leading scorer in Little Giants history earlier this season with his career mark standing at 2,464 points in 110 games played (22.4/g), all starts. He proved more adept as a playmaker the last two seasons, posting 104 and 124 helpers, respectively, to bring his career total to 376 assists (3.4/g). His career shooting percentages are eye-opening at .486 (706-of-1454) from the field, .456 (323-of-708) from deep, and .873 (708-of-811) from the charity stripe.

RELATED: Wabash College Release

In the classroom, Davidson boasts a 3.68 grade point average as an economics major. Three times he has been honored as an Academic All-American by CoSIDA, including first team recognition this year. Following his freshman season, Davidson was selected to Wabash's highly competitive Center for Innovation, Business, and Entrepreneurship. Through that program, he has spent the past several summers in multiple internships developing his business acumen and skills. During the school year, he and his small cohort of fellow students put their new learned skills to use in the Crawfordsville and Indianapolis communities supporting local businesses with a variety of projects they otherwise would not have been able to achieve.

Davidson is also active in service to his surrounding communities. He has worked with the Montgomery County Special Olympics as a member of the Wabash's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), and was involved in the coordination of a lunch buddies program that paired students with special needs from a local high school with student leaders. Davidson was also active with "Books, Basketball, and Beyond," which is a program developed by the Little Giants basketball program that involves meeting with local kindergarten and first-grade students to help develop and strengthen their reading skills while also serving as role models.

HISTORY OF JOSTENS TROPHY WINNERS

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