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Augsburg
College names 2003-04 Honor Athletes, athletic award winners
Honor
Athlete History -- Click here
MINNEAPOLIS (4/22/04)
-- Augsburg College awarded five senior student-athletes with its athletic
awards for the 2003-04 school year this week.
Three Auggies earned
Honor Athlete designation, the highest honor the college gives its senior
student-athletes -- female athlete Melissa Lee (Sr., Cannon Falls,
Minn./Randolph HS) and male athletes Brandon Fox (Sr., Springfield,
Minn.) and Mathew Shannon (Sr., Minneapolis, Minn./Washburn HS).
Earning Augsburg Senior Athlete of the Year honors were female athlete
Kristen Lideen (Sr., Champlin, Minn./Champlin Park HS) and male
athlete Joe Moon (Sr., Ellendale, Minn./New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva
HS).
Lee was also given the
Julie Ellingson Leadership in Women's Athletics award, an honor
given periodically to female athletes who have displayed qualities of
outstanding leadership and service to Auggie athletics. The award is
named for Ellingson, a former softball catcher (1995-98), who was a
devoted worker in many aspects of Augsburg's athletic department.
Athletic awards are
voted on by coaches in Augsburg's men's and women's athletic departments.
Awards were presented at the athletic department year-end banquets on
Monday and Wednesday.
2003-04 Augsburg Honor Athletes
Brandon Fox -- A three-year starter and four-year
letterwinner in football, Fox earned All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference second-team honors in both his junior and senior seasons.
His senior year, he led the Auggies in tackles with 103, the first Auggie
to reach the century mark in tackles since 1996. He had the second-most
tackles in the MIAC in 2003, and led both the conference and team in
tackles for loss. He added 2.5 sacks, two interceptions and two fumble
recoveries his senior year. He was named the team's Outstanding Player
on Defense, Most Valuable Player and earned the Edor Nelson Auggie
Award in 2003. A business management major with a 3.63 grade-point average,
Fox earned Academic All-MIAC honors twice and was named to the CoSIDA
Academic All-District second team in 2003.
Melissa Lee
-- Lee was a four-year starter in softball and also played basketball
for two seasons at Augsburg. In softball, Lee has started every game
of her collegiate career, a streak that now stands at 136 straight games.
She has a career .294 batting average (115-for-391), a .368 slugging
percentage and .356 on-base percentage. She currently stands 11th in
school history in both career hits and total bases, ninth in career
doubles and second in being hit-by-pitch. Considered one of the top
third-basemen in school history, Lee has a .961 career fielding percentage
(22 errors in 568 chances). A health and physical education major with
a 3.507 GPA, Lee has earned Academic All-MIAC and National Fastpitch
Coaches Association Scholar Athlete honors three times. She is a Student-Athlete
Mentor, co-president of the Augsburg College Education Students (ACES)
program, and has been active as a student worker in many aspects of
Augsburg's athletics program.
Mathew Shannon
-- A 17-time All-MIAC performer, Shannon became the first Augsburg
men's track and field athlete to ever earn All-American honors in both
indoor and outdoor events in the same year, when he finished fourth
in the indoor men's 400-meter dash and third in the outdoor 400 in 2003
at NCAA Division III national championship events. This season, Shannon
placed fifth in the indoor 400 at the national meet, and has already
provisionally qualified for the outdoor national meet with a time that
is currently the fifth-fastest in the country and tops among MIAC athletes.
He also has the current second-fastest times in the MIAC in both the
100- and 200-meter dashes. A three-time MIAC titlist, Shannon earned
both the Outstanding Indoor Championships Performance and Indoor Track
Athlete of the Year honors from MIAC coaches this season. He also was
recently named USA Track and Field Minnesota Co-Athlete of the Month.
A business and communication major with a 3.155 GPA, Shannon has earned
Dean's List honors. Shannon is also a member of Augsburg's Scholastic
Connections program, a unique effort that pairs students of color with
alumni mentors in the community.
2002-03 Augsburg Senior Athletes
of the Year
Kristen Lideen -- Lideen emerged as two-sport
star at Augsburg. In soccer, Lideen earned All-MIAC honorable-mention
honors three years in a row as one of the top sweepers in the conference.
A defender, she has played in 50 games in three seasons of soccer, scoring
two goals with three assists for seven points. Her junior season, Lideen
led a defense that allowed just seven goals, the fifth-best defense
in Division III. In softball, Lideen has become one of the best shortstops
to ever play at Augsburg, currently holding career school records in
three different categories -- batting average (.453), hits (175) and
doubles (38) -- and is in the top 10 in school history in seven other
career listings. Lideen is one of four players in school history to
ever go through a single season without a strikeout, and has a current
streak of 196 plate appearances and 177 at-bats without a strikeout.
Lideen earned All-Region and All-MIAC first-team honors each of her
first three seasons in an Auggie uniform, and in 2003, she became the
sixth Augsburg player to ever earn NFCA All-American honors. Lideen
is a philosophy major at Augsburg.
Joe Moon -- Moon won his first national title in wrestling this season
with a dramatic performance at the Division III national championships,
dispatching perennial nemesis Cody Koenig of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point in the semifinals, and dominating defending national titlist and
four-time All-American Eduard Aliakseynka of Montclair State
(N.J.) 13-6 in the 174-pound national title match, earning the meet's
Outstanding Wrestler honors in the process. Moon finished 39-2 his senior
season and 105-14 in his three-season career at Augsburg. A two-time
All-American in wrestling, Moon finished fifth nationally last season
at 174 and earned the team's Outstanding Freshman honors his first season
at Augsburg. A marketing major, Moon was also a member of two academic
national teams at Augsburg which finished sixth (3.335 team GPA) and
third (3.393 team GPA) among Division III wrestling schools nationally
in consecutive seasons.
Augsburg
Honor Athletes, 1926-2004
(Men only 1926-1974, Men and Women 1975-present)
1926--Oswald Oudal
1927--Oswald Oudal
1928--Luther Sletten
1929--John Kolesar
1930--John Kolesar
1931--Otto Rortvedt
1932--Arthur Amundson
1933--George Kolesar
1934--Donald Olson
1935--Ralph Bergstrom
1936--Ernie Anderson
1937--Ernie Anderson
1938--Edor Nelson
1939--Henry Chapman
1940--Roy Gordon
1941--Maynard Bahre
1942--Victor Miller
1943--Stanford Nelson
1944--Marvin Sulsdorf
1945--Clair Strommen
1946--Clair Strommen
1947--Jeroy Carlson
1948--Duane Lindgren
1949--Arnold Henjum
1950--Ernie Hone
1951--Richard Martinson
1952--James Kottom
1953--Donald Reimer
1954--Erling Huglen
1955--Richard Stensrud
1956--Luther Olson
1957--Stan Baker
1958--Richard Green
1959--Larry Junkermeier
1960--Paul Casperson
1961--Oscar Blegen
1962--Bruce Gildseth
1963--Lloyd Raymond
1964--Guy Reuss
1965--Dan Meyers
1966--Paul Zimmerman
1967--Gerald Peterson
1968--Lynn Gunderson
1969--Daryl Miller
1970--Al DeWolf
1971--Mike Good
1972--Pat Marcy
1973--Brad Olson
1974--Ray Dahlof
1975--Jim Sviggum (men), Nancy Soli Mollner (women)
1976--Jeff Nessler (men), Cindy Schendel (women)
1977--Rod Jonas (men), no women selected
1978--Jim Peterson (men), Connie Lamon Priesz (women)
1979--Jeff Swenson (men), Maggie McDonough (women)
1980--John Sorenson (men), Peggy Kyllonen Meissner (women)
1981--Steve Grinde (men), Dana Rae Holmes McIntyre (women)
1982--Dan Roff (men), Kim Olson Miklya (women)
1983--Bob Adams (men), Julie Goldstein Yeazle (women)
1984--Bruce Arvold & Jim Finch (men), Terese Taylor (women)
1985--Brian Ammann, Mike Berry & Steve Gilva (men), Lisa Svac &
Sue Thompson (women)
1986--Greg Chmelik (men), Anne Richter (women)
1987--no men selected, Karen Sterner Engel (women)
1988--no men selected, Steph Stolte & Melanie Herrera (women)
1989--Donny Wichmann (men), Carolyn Ross & Michelle Boyer (women)
1990--Terry Mackenthun & John Beatty (men), Deb Zieman (women)
1991--Tim Tousignant (men), Andrea Haight (women)
1992--Mike Pfeffer (men), Julie Stepan & Tracy Tomforde (women)
1993--Dave Carlson & Gary Kroells (men), Julie Hanson (women)
1994--C.J. Beaurline (men), Bonnie Koerner (women)
1995--Eric Betterman (men), Kristi Ockuly (women)
1996--Cliff Casteel (men), Kara Seibel (women)
1997--Dan
Lewandowski (men), Rebekah Ormsby (women)
1998--Ted
Schultz & Henry Gerten (men), Stefanie Lodermeier & Stephanie
Simones (women)
1999--Scott
Hvistendahl & Jim Peterson (men), Tasha Hamann & Jodie West
(women)
2000--Josh
Cagle & Jake Kern (men), Carrie Lind & Jodi Soule (women)
2001--Todd
Boerboom, Nik Lewandowski and Mike Schwalen (men), Jaime Kingsley and
Angie Rieger (women)
2002--Tony
Abbott, Brent Peroutka and Kevin Rasmussen (men), Kristi Brusletto (women)
2003--T.J.
Bramwell, Ricky Crone and Jay Howard (men), Jennifer Lemke (women)
2004--Brandon
Fox and Mathew Shannon (men), Melissa Lee (women)
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Augsburg College, a
college of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, is a member of the Minnesota
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) and the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III.
This
is the official web site for Augsburg College athletics.
All comments or questions regarding this web site should be directed
to Sports Information Coordinator Don Stoner -- E-mail: stoner@augsburg.edu
Phone: (612) 330-1677.
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