Mount Union Wins OAC Men's All-Sports Trophy; Patton and Schindel Honored as Top Student Athletes
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Mount Union will be awarded a record 12th Ohio
Athletic Conference Men's All-Sports Trophy and seniors Annie
Patton (Darlington, Pa./Blackhawk) and Bill Schindel
(Tallmadge/Akron Hoban) will be honored with OAC Clyde Lamb Awards
Monday night at the OAC's Awards Dinner in Columbus.
The Purple Raiders won five men's OAC championships during the 2010-11 year with title in football, men's cross country, wrestling, men's outdoor track and field and men's golf.
Mount Union totalled 80.5 points as each team's finish is given a point total and added together. The 80.5 points was 1.0 point ahead of second place Ohio Northern while Baldwin-Wallace (60.5 pts.) was in third place.
It breaks Ohio Northern's five-year run of winning the award and is the first time Mount Union has won the award since the 2002-03 season.
Baldwin-Wallace wins the women's all-sports trophy for a record 14th time with 77.5 points, Ohio Northern is in second with 75.25 points while the Raiders, who won titles in women's basketball and women's outdoor track and field is in third with 66.75 points.
Patton and Schindel are Mount Union's winners of the annual Clyde Lamb Awards given to the top female and male student athletes from each of the OAC's 10 institutions.
Patton is All-American, Academic All-American for the women's track and field team as she holds the OAC record in javelin and was the 2008 champion in the event. Also she has been instramental in community service efforts in Mount Union and Alliance community such as Soles4Souls, Hugs for Haiti and March Makeover remodel of the Alliance Empowerment Center.
Schindel is a three-time OAC Champion, three-time All-American and an Academic All-OAC selection for the wrestling team. His 83 wins are the sixth most in school history and his leadership as team captain during the adversity the Mount Union team endured was invaluable as the Raiders matched its best finish ever placing eighth in the nation at the NCAA Championships.
2010-11 OAC All-Sports Standings
MEN: 1. Mount Union 80.5, 2. Ohio Northern 79.5, 3.
Baldwin-Wallace 60.75, 4. John Carroll 59.75, 5. Heidelberg 57.75,
6. Otterbein 55.25, 7. Marietta 41.75, 8. Capital 36.75, 9.
Muskingum 31.75, 10. Wimington 23.25
WOMEN: 1. Baldwin-Wallace 77.5, 2. Ohio Northern 75.25, 3. Mount Union 66.75, 4. Otterbein 64.75, 5. John Carroll 48.50, 6. Capital 42, 7. Wilmington 35.25, 8. Marietta 34.75, 9. Heidelberg 33.75, 10. Muskingum 20.50.
OAC Men's All-Sports Champions
2010-11 Mount Union
2009-10 Ohio Northern
2008-09 Ohio Northern
2007-08 Ohio Northern
2006-07 Ohio Northern
2005-06 Ohio Northern
2004-05 Otterbein
2003-04 John Carroll
2002-03 Mount Union
2001-02 Otterbein
2000-01 Mount Union
1999-00 Ohio Northern
1998-99 Mount Union
1997-98 John Carroll
1996-97 Mount Union
1995-96 Mount Union
1994-95 Ohio Northern
1993-94 John Carroll
1992-93 Mount Union
1991-92 John Carroll
1990-91 Mount Union
1989-90 Baldwin-Wallace
1988-89 Wittenberg
1987-88 Mount Union
1986-87 Mount Union
1985-86 Wittenberg
1984-85 Wittenberg
1983-84 Denison
1982-83 Ohio Wesleyan
1981-82 Ohio Northern
1980-81 Wittenberg
1979-80 Ohio Wesleyan
1978-79 Wittenberg
1977-78 Wooster
1976-77 Ohio Wesleyan
1975-76 Wittenberg
1974-75 Mount Union
1973-74 Mount Union
1972-73 Baldwin-Wallace
1971-72 Baldwin-Wallace
1970-71 Wooster
1969-70 Wittenberg
1968-69 Baldwin-Wallace
1967-68 Denison
1966-67 Baldwin-Wallace
1965-66 Wittenberg
1964-65 Akron
1963-64 Akron
1962-63 Akron
1961-62 Ohio Wesleyan
1960-61 Ohio Wesleyan
