Sun Belt honors handed out, other tidbits
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The Sun Belt Conference handed out its end of the year awards earlier this week. I mentioned on the blog that Western Kentucky won the Bubas Cup. Well, they won just about everything else as well. The league handed out two postgraduate scholarships, two awards for sportsmanship and named two athletes of the year. Western Kentucky basketball standout Crystal Kelly was named the Female Athlete of the Year, while Denver tennis player Adam Holmstrom was named the Male Athlete of the Year. WKU won three of the six awards. UNT was shut out. It is interesting to note that WKU won nine league titles this past school year, breaking their previous record of seven. WKU is the first Sun Belt school to win conference titles in 50 percent of the sports they participated in (9 of 18). WKU won or shared Sun Belt Conference titles in men's and women's basketball, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, women's cross country, women's swimming and diving, and soccer. The following is a link to the Sun Belt's story on the awards it handed out: This time around, the Hilltoppers lived up to their name. It is also interesting to note that Louisiana-Lafayette is on the verge of advancing to the college world series. The Ragin' Cajuns knocked off in-state rival LSU in the regional and will now face Houston in the super regional. Beating LSU is a huge win for ULL and the Sun Belt. Although this came down a few days ago, I got a chance to catch up with UNT soccer head coach John Hedlund to talk about his recruiting class that was rated best in the Sun Belt by Soccer Buzz magazine. Be sure to pick up a copy of the paper tomorrow to see what Hedlund had to say and read about just how good UNT's class is. UNT has signed five of the top 500 players in the country. Post your thoughts on the blog. Do you expect to see UNT make it back to the NCAA soccer tournament behind its latest recruiting class? |
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Posted by Cliff @ 10:35 PM Tue, May 20, 2008
I hate the change in format. I realize that the DRC probably felt that their stamp was not sufficiently present on the old one, but it was nice to have a place to get all of your UNT sports news without all the other crap. I will undoubtedly continue to check in every day because I appreciate the job that Mr. Vito does, but the new look is awful.
Absolutely awful, all character gone out the window, reduced to no more than an afterthought on the DRC website.
Posted by BJsD @ 8:50 AM Wed, May 21, 2008
i hate to say it, but i'll never be able to follow NT women's soccer. if they make some nationally significant run or something, i'm sure i'll join many other alumni in jumping on the bandwagon. while i'll definitely cheer for them from a distance, i won't be following them closely enough at all. should alumni be more committed to attending games of sports they just don't care about? i don't feel bad for not following the music dept's progress or attending shows, is that the same thing?