McKendree University wrapped up Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) Academic Awards Week on Friday as they earned two GLVC Winter and Spring Scholar-Athletes of the Year for the 2021-22 school year as junior Leonardo Frederico (Tijucas-Santa Cantrina, Brazil/Unicesumar) and junior Rebecca Hagerman (Loves Park, Ill./Harlem) and were this year's recipients of the award from men's tennis and women's bowling.
The Bearcats were one of two schools in the league to claim multiple Scholar-Athletes of the Year as Indianapolis led the league with seven selections. In addition to UIndy and McKendree, Drury, Illinois-Springfield, Lewis, Lindenwood, Maryville, Truman State and UMSL round out the list with one honoree each.
It marks the second time in the last three years that McKendree has had multiple student-athletes earn GLVC Winter and Spring Scholar-Athletes of the Year as Logan Kohrmann (men's basketball) and Taylor Bailey (women's bowling) were each honored by the league in 2019-20 respectively.
The league selects one student-athlete in each Conference sport to be designated the GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The award is based upon athletic accomplishments, both team and individual, and academic performance in the season upon which the award is based. Each GLVC member has the opportunity to nominate one individual from its team for the award. Nominees must have a cumulative grade point average that meets Academic All-America standards (3.30), and freshmen and first-year transfers are not eligible for the award. The voting is completed by each member institution's Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR).
Here are the 2021-22 GLVC Winter and Spring Scholar-Athletes
Baseball: Austin Alderman, Illinois-Springfield
Men's Basketball: Cade McKnight, Truman State
Women's Basketball: Alex LaPorta, UMSL
Men's Golf: Oliver Mast, Indianapolis
Women's Golf: Catharina Graf, Indianapolis
Softball: Amanda Weyh, Lindenwood
Men's Tennis: Leonardo Frederico, McKendree
Women's Tennis: Anna Novikova, Indianapolis
Men's Track & Field: Ben Nagel, Indianapolis
Women's Track & Field: Casey Berberich, Maryville
Men's Swimming & Diving: Cade Hammond, Indianapolis
Women's Swimming & Diving: Allison Weber, Drury
Women's Bowling: Rebecca Hagerman, McKendree
Men's Wrestling: Andrew Sams, Indianapolis
Men's Lacrosse: Peter Carlson, Lewis
Women's Lacrosse: Abigail Lagos, Indianapolis
Frederico earns the GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's tennis after being named the 2022 GLVC Player of the Year and a First-Team All-GLVC selection for the Bearcats. His play helped lead McKendree to the school's first-ever GLVC Tournament title and NCAA Tournament win this past spring and is now the first Bearcat to win Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in men's tennis. During the 2021-22 season, Frederico, who was Bearcats' No. 1 player in both singles and doubles, went a perfect 6-0 in GLVC matches and posted a 20-4 overall record in singles and was 3-3 and 18-7 overall in doubles play. Frederico ended the season winning 12 straight singles matches and finished the year ranked 53rd in the final ITA Division II player rankings and was ranked No. 2 in the Midwest Region in singles. He was named an Academic All-GLVC selection and a First-Team CoSIDA Academic At-Large All-American and a First-Team CoSIDA Academic At-Large All-District selection this season as he achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA while majoring in both Economics and Finance, as well as, Sports Management and he carries a 3.94 cumulative GPA.
Hagerman earns the GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for women's bowling after being the No. 2 bowler on McKendree's 2022 NCAA National Championship team. During the 2022 season, Hagerman was a First-Team All-GLVC selection, a Second-Team NTCA All-Central Region selection and a Second-Team NTCA All-American. Additionally, she received the NCAA Elite 90 Award at this year's National Collegiate Bowling Championships and was McKendree's female recipient of the 2021-22 James R. Spalding Sportsmanship Individual Award. On the season, Hagerman recorded a 210.8 average and averaged 21.08 pins per frame and had 32 200-plus traditional games and recorded five Top 10 tournament finishes, including a runner-up finish at the Big Red Invitational and an MVP performance at the Columbia 300 Music City Classic. She is a three-time Academic All-GLVC selection and carries a 3.87 cumulative GPA in Biopsychology and recorded a 3.50 GPA during the spring semester. She joins Taylor Bailey as the school's two GLVC Scholar-Athletes of the Year in women's bowling.
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