Two Dartmouth football players were presented with awards at the College's annual Celebration of Athletic Excellence at Leede Arena.
Honored were junior linebacker Michael Runger and senior linebacker Garrett Wymore.
Runger was presented with the Class of 1948 Scholar-Athlete Award, given "to one male and one female of the junior class, who have combined outstanding performance in athletics and significant achievement in academics." From the release:
Runger earned the men’s Class of 1948 award after maintaining a 3.75 GPA as an economics major. He has been an Academic All-District selection and FCS Athletics Directors Academic All-Star. On the field, Runger led the Big Green’s defensive efforts with a league-best 98 tackles, making at least double-digit stops in six of the 10 games, helping him earn a spot on the All-Ivy First Team. And in the season finale at Princeton, he recorded 17 tackles, the most by an Ivy player all year.
Michael Runger
Wymore was given the Timothy Ellis Award for ""extracurricular and scholastic drive, spirit, loyalty and amiability which made Tim such a well-known member of the community." From the release:
Wymore is an exceptional student as a double major in economics and neuroscience while maintaining a 3.90 grade-point average. In 2012, he was named Academic All-District, Academic All-Ivy, an Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star and to the NFF Hampshire Honor Society. A Rhodes Scholar applicant, he started eight of the 10 games this past fall on the gridiron and was second on the squad with four tackles for a loss of a team-high 47 yards. In his career, he recorded 131 tackles, broke up six passes and forced a fumble.
Garrett Wymore
The Outstanding Male Athlete was junior Nejc Zupan, the Ivy League Swimmer of the Meet who became the first Dartmouth swimmer to qualify for the NCAAs in 30 years. Hardly a surprise as the winner of the Class of 1976 Award as the outstanding female athlete was junior track All-American Abbey D'Agostino, the only American collegiate woman ever to win both the 3000 and 5000 meters in a career – something she accomplished in two days. D'Agostino has won the Class of 1976 Award two years in a row (and will win it again next year barring injury ;-).
Finally found the CFPA Wide Receivers Watch List on the Old Dominion University football page. Go figure. Here's the list (with the Ivy League members italicized):
- Greg Hardin - North Dakota
- Andrew Peacock - Appalachian State
- Sean Price - Appalachian State
- Jordan Harris - Bryant
- Willie Tucker - Cal Poly
- Matt Hazel - Coastal Carolina
- Grant Gellatly - Cornell
- Nick Rosa - Drake
- Gianni Carter - Duquesne
- Erik Lora - Eastern Illinois
- Ashton Clark - Eastern Washington
- Kierre Brown - Elon
- Brian Wetzel - Fordham
- Kenny Cook - Gardner-Webb
- Mark Ross - Lafayette
- Tanner Bleskin - Montana State
- Walter Powell - Murray State
- R.J. Harris - New Hampshire
- Brett LeMaster - Northern Iowa
- Larry Pinkard - Old Dominion
- Antonio Vaughan - Old Dominion
- Roman Wilson - Princeton
- Stephen Barnette - Richmond
- Ben Edwards - Richmond
- Reggie Bell - San Diego
- Simon Heyward - Savannah State
- D.J. Ward - Stephen F. Austin
- Tyler McDonald - South Carolina State
- Lee Doss - Southern University
- Fatu Moala - Southern Utah
- Ladarius Eckwood - Arkansas Pine Bluff
- Jeremy Butler - Tennessee-Martin
- Tre McBride - William and Mary
Cornell's Gellatly caught 61 passes for 940 yards (15.4 ypc) with 5 TDs. He averaged 94.0 yards per game.
Princeton's Wilson caught 37 balls for 649 yards (17.5 ypc) with 5 TDs. He averaged 64.9 yards per game.
Perhaps just as deserving of a place on the list:
- Brown's Tellef Lundevall is a senior who was expected to petition for a fifth year. He caught 72 passes for 718 yards and three touchdowns, averaging 71.8 yards per game.
- Penn's Conner Scott caught 52 passes for 691 yards and five touchdowns, averaging 69.1 yards per game.
- Dartmouth's Ryan McManus caught 42 balls for 664 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 66.4 yards per game.
