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Four Augsburg student-athletes named 2000 Honor Athletes
MINNEAPOLIS (5/11/00) -- Four Augsburg College senior student-athletes who have excelled in both the classroom and the athletic fields were named Honor Athletes by the Augsburg men's and women's athletic departments this week. Josh Cagle (Sr., Faribault, Minn.) and Jake Kern (Sr., Faribault, Minn.) were named Men's Honor Athletes, and Carrie Lind (Sr., Coon Valley, Wis./Westby HS) and Jodi Soule (Sr., Cannon Falls, Minn.) were named Women's Honor Athletes. The athletes were given their honors at banquets on Tuesday and Wednesday. The highest honor Augsburg gives to its senior student-athletes, Honor Athletes are selected on a vote of coaches in the men's and women's athletic departments. In addition, the men's athletic department honored Kevin Van Rossum (Sr., Green Bay, Wis./Preble HS) as the recipient of the department's second Male Athlete of the Year award for his achievements this season for the Auggie men's basketball and men's golf teams. Below is information on each of Augsburg's Honor Athletes: Josh Cagle -- Cagle earned All-America honors three times for the Auggie wrestling team, which won the Division III national championship three times and finished second once during Cagle's tenure. Cagle finished fourth in the nation at 142 pounds in 1998 and second in the nation at 149 pounds in 1999. This season, en route to winning the national championship at 149 pounds, Cagle became just the second Auggie in school history to go through a single season unbeaten, finishing 40-0. He also set single-season and career school records for technical falls, with 23 this season and 49 on his career. His 139-17 career record places him seventh in school history in career wins. He also won three Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference individual titles. A two-time team captain and an accounting major with a 3.7 grade-point average, Cagle earned MIAC Academic All-Conference Honor Roll honors three times. He was also named to the National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholar All-America team three times and earned GTE Academic All-America honors twice (second team 1999, first team 2000). Cagle is the son of Larry Cagle and Jane Whillock of Faribault, Minn. Jake Kern -- Kern, a free safety for the Auggie football team, corralled 12 interceptions in his four-year career at Augsburg, the third-highest total in school history. He also finished his career with 221 tackles, leading the team in tackles his last two seasons. After his sophomore season, when he netted seven interceptions to lead Augsburg to its first MIAC title since 1928, Kern was honored by being named to the Hewlett-Packard Division III All-America team. He was named to the All-MIAC first team and all-region teams each of his last three seasons, and following his senior year, he was named to the Hewlett-Packard Division III All-America honorable mention team, D3Football.com Team of the Year and the Lutheran Brotherhood Lutheran College All-America first team. In the classroom, Kern carried a 3.75 grade-point average with a physics major. He earned MIAC Academic All-Conference Honor Roll honors three seasons, in addition to being named to the GTE Academic All-District squad twice. Kern is the son of Terrance and Christine Kern of Faribault, Minn. Carrie Lind -- Lind transferred to Augsburg from Wisconsin-La Crosse before her junior season and made an immediate impact on the women's track and field team, earning second-place honors in the nation in the indoor 20-pound weight throw in both the 1999 and 2000 seasons. She set the school's record for the weight throw in her first collegiate meet, and continued to build on the mark until reaching a then-MIAC-record 57-feet, 10-1/4-inch effort last season. This season, Lind had to battle a chronic foot injury, but automatically qualified for the national indoor meet in her first meet of the year. So far in the outdoor season, Lind has provisionally qualified for the national meet in the women's hammer throw, just shy of automatically qualifying with two meets to go before nationals. In the classroom, Lind carries a 3.88 grade-point average with majors of youth and family ministry and psychology. She is active in Augsburg's campus ministry program. Lind earned MIAC Academic All-Conference Honor Roll honors this season. Lind is the daughter of Rebecca and Charles Lind of Coon Valley, Wis. Jodi Soule -- Soule played women's basketball at Augsburg for three seasons, after playing at the College of St. Benedict in her freshman year. Primarily a reserve guard to start her Auggie career, Soule fought chronic knee injuries her first two sesaons. A starting guard as a senior, Soule led the Auggies in scoring, averaging 12.2 points per game, while also contributing 28 steals and 41 assists, as Augsburg doubled its win totals from a season ago. Soule scored in double figures in 18 of her 25 games her senior season, including nine of her last 10 games. In a late-season game against St. Benedict, Soule tied a school record by going a perfect six-for-six from three-point range. She earned All-MIAC first-team honors this season. A communication major with a 3.73 grade-point average, Soule earned GTE Academic All-District third-team honors this season, while earning MIAC Academic All-Conference Honor Roll honors her junior and senior years. Soule will graduate with departmental honors in communication this spring. Soule is the daughter of Sheryl and Jim Soule of Cannon Falls, Minn. 2000 Men's Athletics -- Augsburg Male Athlete of the Year Augsburg Honor Athletes, 1926-2000 (Men only 1926-1974, Men and Women 1975-present) 1926--Oswald Oudal
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