GLVC recognizes fall athletes
The All Great Lakes Valley Conference honored 11 University of Indianapolis athletes in the close of the 2011 fall sports season.
Men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and football released the first, second and third team all-conference selections.
Men’s soccer produced one first-team athlete in junior forward Bobby Adkins. Although this is Adkins first all-conference honor he has started and been a team contributor all three years with the Greyhounds. Adkins improved on his last year’s team high seven assists by putting up eight in the 2011 season. The eight assists put him in the top 10 in the conference.
Sophomore midfielder Matt Franco and sophomore midfielder/forward Casey Castle each received a spot on the third team all-conference. Castle totaled 14 points this season, while Franco finished the year with four assists.
In women’s soccer, sophomore forward Nicole Duncan earned a spot on the first team All-GLVC. Duncan put up 25 total points this season, and tacked on 10 goals and five assists. Duncan also led the conference in game-winning goals, recording five this season.
“My only goal for this season was for our team to achieve success and make significant improvements from last year,” Duncan said.
Duncan’s efforts guided the team to an 11-8 record, an improvement on last season’s 4-10-2.
Women’s soccer also placed a trifecta on the third team All-GLVC. Senior back Megan Grassly, senior midfielder Lauren Soza and sophomore forward Shelby Spinelli all earned spots in this season’s All-GLVC awards.
Volleyball produced two first team all-conference honorees. Senior outside hitter Kristina Hefferan earned the award for the first time while junior outside hitter Kristina Kerrigan received this honor for the second year in a row.
Kerrigan and Hefferan led the Greyhounds with 374 and 371 kills respectively. Kerrigan also finished the season with 11 doubles in kills and digs.
Freshman setter Meghan Binkerd and junior middle hitter Courtney Anglemyer received third team awards.
Binkerd doubled up on awards this season, earning the third team spot as well as being named GLVC Freshman of the Year. Binkerd joins teammate Kerrigan and alumnus Shaun McAllister as UIndy owners of the trophy. Binkerd credits her success to the hard work and efforts of her team, who have pushed her to be the player she has become.
“It [the award] wasn’t one of my goals at the beginning of the season,” Binkerd said. “I just wanted to play well and make the team better.”
Football’s sophomore quarterback Chris Mills was named Offensive Back of the Year for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Conference. Mills was also a candidate for the 2011 Harlon Hill Trophy, and one of the 22 candidates for this year’s NCAA Division II college football player of the year.
Four Greyhounds were named to the first team All-GLIAC.
On the offensive side, junior wide receiver Mar’Quone Edmonds and senior wide receiver Ryan Forney accompanied their quarterback to the first team. Forney was also named to the All-GLIAC first team as a special teams player. Defensive senior linebacker Mike Dum was a first team honoree, finishing the season with 96 tackles.
UIndy added sophomore running back Klay Fiechter, junior offensive lineman Joe Britner, junior linebacker Max Davis and senior defensive back Nate Jackson to the GLIAC second team. UIndy earned a total of nine spots on the All-GLIAC first and second teams.
