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- Cody Chase (Football)
- Lateesha Hiser (Women's Track & Field)
- Alli Roetz (Women's Swimming)
- Brice Swick (Baseball)
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After being in a bad car accident in January, Brice overcame his injuries to start Ripon's season-opener on March 10th. In his second start of the season, Brice allowed just two earned runs in 6 innings, while striking out five and walking none. |
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| Nominees for Breakthrough Performance: |
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- Michael Barnes (Baseball)
- Briana Bartz (Women's Track & Field)
- Jonalee Elliott (Volleyball)
- Julian Patton (Football)
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In her first-ever year competing in Track & Field, Briana won the MWC Indoor 200 meter dash by zero-point-twelve seconds and placed second in the 60 meter dash just five hundredths of a second behind a 2017 National qualifier. She also set the 60-meter dash school record, running under the previous record 11 times. |
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| Nominees for Record-Breaking Performance: |
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- Jimmy Amedeo (Men's Soccer)
- Callista DeCramer (Women's Track & Field)
- Jack Lutter (Men's Swimming)
- Emma McDonald (Women's Basketball
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During the 2018 Indoor season Callista broke school records in the 60 meter Hurdles, Triple Jump, and Pentathlon, which is tied for the most individual records by a student-athlete in program history. |
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| Nominees for Individual Performance of the Year: |
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- Isaac Masters (Men's Basketball)
- Emma McDonald (Women's Basketball)
- Lexi Reetz (Softball)
- Brady Stockwell (Track & Field)
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In Ripon's 63-46 win against Lake Forest, Emma tied a school record with seven 3-pointers. She finished with a game-high 21 points and six rebounds. |
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| Nominees for Championship Performance: |
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- Callista DeCramer (Women's Track & Field)
- Men's Basketball vs. St. Norbert in MWC Semi-Finals
- Women's Basketball clinches MWC Championship
- Men's Swimming 200 Freestyle Relay Team
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At the 2018 MWC Championships, Ripon's 200 freestyle relay team of Jack Lutter, Ethan Ripp, Alec Sutton, and Nate Pakosz won a close race, finishing just one second shy of the conference record. The relay win was the first time a Ripon swimming relay has won an event at the MWC Championships since 1972. The Men's team finished the meet in third place, which was also its highest overall finish since 1972. |
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| Nominees for Best Moment: |
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- Lane Barnes (Football) - 59-yard INT return for TD in comeback win vs. Univ. of Chicago
- Women's Basketball - Winning coin flip to host 2018 MWC Tournament
- Michael Barnes (Baseball) - Walk-off home run vs. Illinois College
- Men's Basketball - Defeating fourth-ranked and eventual national runner up UW-Oshkosh on December 30th
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About an hour after defeating Knox in their final game of the regular season to earn a share of the MWC Championship, the hosting rights for the 2018 MWC Tournament came down to the fifth tiebreaker, in which Ripon won on a coin flip. |
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| Nominees for The Leadership Award: |
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And the winner of The Leadership Award is... |
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- Kat Kulas (Volleyball)
- Isaac Masters (Men's Basketball)
- Emma McDonald (Women's Basketball)
- Alec Sutton (Men's Swimming)
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Isaac was a three-year captain who led a very young team of eight freshmen this season. He was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team, while carrying a 3.86 GPA as a Bio-Chem major, while also bing a member of the Presidential Leadership Team on campus. Isaac works as a tutor for Student Support Services and is a volunteer for Honor Flight, Boys and Girls Club, Habitat For Humanity, Relay For Life, Ripon Rotary Club, Ripon Committee Clean-Up Crew, and Ripon's Chamber of Commerce. |
