USI WGolf, Soccer’s Durham, Woodford receive sportsmanshhip honor

The Great Lakes Valley Conference announced that University of Southern Indiana Women’s Golf is one of 20 teams to earn the James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award for the 2015-16 season.

Additionally, Men’s Soccer senior Lucas Woodford (Newburgh, Indiana) and Women’s Soccer senior McKinsey Durham (Madisonville, Kentucky) have been selected by USI as the Screaming Eagles’ nominees for the James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award nominees.

Woodford and Durham also were selected as USI’s Male and Female Screaming Eagles Pride Award winners this year.

About the James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award

The Spalding Sportsmanship Awards are given to 20 teams—one per GLVC sponsored sport—and 32 student-athletes—one male and one female per school—at the conclusion of each academic year.

Prior to the April 13 namesake change announcement, the GLVC Sportsmanship Award was presented to one team in each of the GLVC’s 20 sports, as well as one male and one female student-athlete at the end of the academic year who had distinguished themselves through demonstrated acts of sportsmanship and ethical behavior. The voting process had previously been coordinated through each institution’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) since the award’s inception in the 2007-08 academic season.

Now, each institution – through the head coach – names one award honoree in each sport sponsored. These individual sport honorees became candidates for the James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award. Each institution then selected one male and one female student-athlete from its season-long list of honorees to be named as James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award winners. Following this announcement, one letter of institutional recommendation must be submitted for each winner, showing how they have displayed exemplary conduct of fairness, graciousness, and respect toward teammates, opposing teams, coaches, and officials before, during, and after competition as a representative of the GLVC and their institution. The Conference office will then select one male and one female from the 32 winners as the GLVC nominees for the NCAA Sportsmanship Award.

Furthermore, during the initial nomination process, each institution’s coach will rank the top-three teams within the sport that best displayed good sportsmanship throughout the season. The team with the highest point total is then named that sport’s James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Award winner. At the conclusion of the academic year, the institution that accumulated the highest point total across all sports will be named the James R. Spalding Overall Sportsmanship Award winner.

2015-16 GLVC JAMES R. SPALDING TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD WINNERS

Overall Winner: Maryville

 

2015-16 GLVC JAMES R. SPALDING INDIVIDUAL SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD WINNERS