Alabama Athletics Celebrates Successes with Crimson Choice Awards

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama Athletics Division’s annual Crimson Selection Awards, introduced by the Pupil-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), was streamed dwell from Bryant-Denny Stadium’s Digital Media Heart Monday night time. Roger Hoover and Kennedy Chase served because the celebration’s hosts for the second 12 months in a row and Director of Athletics Greg Byrne opened the continuing with some remarks.

SAAC President Gabe Serrano (observe and subject) together with SAAC Government Committee members Derek Maas (swimming and diving) and Alexa Cruz (observe and subject) had been additionally available to current this 12 months’s honors.

The awards culminated with the announcement of the Paul W. Bryant Award winners – NCAA Champion, Honda Award Winner, All-American and Tutorial All-American Mercy Chelangat and All-American, Tutorial All-American, SEC Champion and SEC document holder Derek Maas.

The Paul W. Bryant Pupil-Athlete Award, created by the Tuscaloosa County Chapter of The College of Alabama Alumni Affiliation in 1985, is introduced yearly to UA’s high female and male student-athlete. The finalists for this 12 months’s Bryant Award had been: Will Anderson Jr. (soccer), Hannah Barber (w. basketball), Bobby Colantonio Jr. (m. observe and subject), Owen Diodati (baseball), Keon Ellis (m. basketball), Montana Fouts (softball), Lexi Graber (gymnastics), Darcy Jennings (rowing), Patrick Kaukovalta (m. tennis), Polly Mack (w. golf), Anne Marie Hiser (w. tennis), Thomas Ponder (m. golf), Kat Rogers (soccer), Morgan Scott (w. swimming and diving) and Katie Shook (volleyball).

Ladies’s golf and males’s tennis had been honored because the groups with the best grade level averages. Ladies’s golf earned the consideration with a 3.76 group GPA whereas males’s tennis earned the excellence with a 3.74.

The Athletics Division’s outreach efforts had been additionally acknowledged through the occasion. Swimming and diving had been the boys’s and girls’s squads with probably the most group outreach hours.

The Unsung Hero Award lauded Alabama student-athletes for making a substantive but usually under-recognized contribution to their group’s success in methods that may be tough to measure. This 12 months’s class was comprised of Eli Buckley (m. observe and subject), Carolina Caminoli (w. golf), Ansley Chershire (w. tennis), Nathan Cooper (m. observe and subject), KJ Haney (softball), Jack Hawes (cross nation), Delaney Heard (m. basketball), Leah Kunde (soccer), Juan Martin (m. tennis), Sania Mitchell (gymnastics), Malia Moore (volleyball), Christal Mosley (w. observe and subject), Cherisse Murray (w. observe and subject), Thomas Ponder (m. golf), Will Portera (baseball), Jami Reed (w. cross nation), Jada Rice (w. basketball), Kristen Rupinen (rowing), Courtney Russo (w. swimming and diving), Trey Sheils (m. swimming and diving) and Daniel Wright (soccer).

Different Crimson Selection Awards introduced Monday night time included:

• Crew of the Yr – Soccer & Ladies’s Swimming and Diving
• Coach of the Yr – Margo Geer (w. swimming and diving) & Nick Saban (soccer)
• Rookie of the Yr – Hillary Cheruiyot (m. observe and subject/cross nation) & Avery Wiseman (w. swimming and diving)
• Comeback Athlete of the Yr – Tyler Sesvold (m. swimming and diving)
• A-Membership Athlete of the Yr – Montana Fouts (softball) & Bryce Younger (soccer)

Gallery: Crimson Selection Award Highlights