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Awards: 2006 - 2007
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for most valuable Senior athlete was announced at commencement. Dane
Cooper and Shelley Akers were named as recipients for 2006 - 2007.
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Most Improved:
Will Hatcher
Fran Crane
Jaime Dickerson
Most Valuable:
Casey Clark
Blair Overman
Coach's Award
Matt Meeks
Shelley Akers
2007-2008 Captains
Alec Hogsette-Men's captain
Susie Clark
Morgan Larkin
Grace Schildknecht-Women's captains
Rachel Watson-Diver captain
The CSCAA produces the Academic All-American
list twice each year. The spring list will also recognize individual Academic
All-Americans who are selected on the basis of their performance in the pool and
the classroom.
Division III - Men
2.85 Team GPA University of the South - Sewanee Max
Obermiller
Division III - Women
2.98 Team GPA University of the South - Sewanee Max
Obermiller
Dani Barker
At the conclusion of the
season, Obermiller reports that senior
Dani Barker wins the "Tiger Heart Award"
for the women's team. Last year Dani was diagnosed with a heart condition.
This had plagued her training the past two seasons and made it difficult to
impossible to compete. This past summer she underwent surgery to repair the
whole in her heart. After extensive rehabilitation and limited training time,
Dani swam, according to coach Max Obermiller, “one of the most courageous races
I’ve ever witnessed.” Dani competed in one of swimming’s toughest races, the
200 butterfly. Her runner- up finish in the consolation final was a testimony
to her tenacity and courage.
Reflections on Goals
Goals for swimmers are different from those of "normal" people.
Swimmers strive for goals that sometimes they will never reach.
Sometimes these goals are only known to them. Mainly they are time
benchmarks they wish to reach or breach. Seldom are they about winning
a particular race or beating a particular swimmer. Since they are
internal, the achievement of a goal, set in this way, is a very personal and
gratifying thing. When a goal is reached, a new goal almost
automatically materializes. And so the cycle continues as long as a
swimmer can swim. There is more satisfaction from achieving a goal, or
reaching personal best in striving for a goal, than any medal or victory
ever won.
A Sewanee swimmer told another Sewanee swimmer, that even if he knew he
would break his leg and not be able to swim in the conference meet, he would
still go through all the hard work and practice! We all love
conference. Why? One reason may be because it brings out the
best in each swimmer. All the fanfare and hype and team bonding make
each swimmer go faster than they could without it. And with this kind
of meet, each swimmers goals come closer to being realized. As
personal best are set, and bodies are torn down for the sake of the team,
how you stand in comparison to other swimmers is just not that important.
What is important, is how you stand up to your own standard... the one you
set for yourself.
As an interested observer, I can say this for sure. You each can be
very proud of who you are, and how you swam. Keep making goals and
keep making personal best while not quite reaching those goals. You
have the respect, support, and love of those around you, especially your
teammates.
Awards: 2005
Most Valuable: Elizabeth Land, Elliott Dement
Most Improved: Sarah Campbell and Padraic
Chisholm
Coaches Award: Shelley Akers and Kris
Harmon
Bishop Juhan Award: (Most valuable senior athlete): Matt Martelli
Diving: Most Valuable: Hallie Blunck, Dane Cooper
Most Improved: Kelly Bryant, Phillip Suggs
Tiger Paw(most inspirational pereformance): Men's 400 Free Relay at SCAC
Championships (Elliott Dement, Padraic Chisholm, Daniel Eley, Ned Booker)
Team Captains for 2005-06: Elliott Dement, Alice Ballenger
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