End of year awards for CMS, CMC, HMC and Scripps
CLAREMONT, Calif. – Over the final few weeks of the 2014-15 school year, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athletic Department, along with Claremont McKenna College (CMC), Harvey Mudd College (HMC) and Scripps College (SCR) all announced their end-of-year athletic awards. Below is a list of this year’s recipients, what the awards represent and a little bit about the recipient’s career and accolades with CMS.
Dickinson Award: LillyBelle Deer & Samantha Kunz
Boucquey Award: Molly Freed
Krieger Award: Sara Mostatabi
CMC Male Athlete of the Year: Warren Wood
CMC Female Athlete of the Year: Kimberly Scamman
HMC Alumni Association Outstanding Athlete of the Year: Zorg Loustalet
Scripps Alumnae Athlete of the Year: Molly Freed
Scripps Athlete of the Year: Shaina Raskin
DICKINSON AWARD (CMC)
This award is presented to the one member of the CMC student body who above all others typifies those qualities of athletic participation which are beneficial to the student body in campus life as well as on the athletic fields. The qualities of athletic participation are:
Leadership: The recipient has afforded direction to athletic teams on which he/she has participated as well as having made his/her presence felt in a positive way in campus life.
Self-Discipline: the recipient has demonstrated the ability for self-restraint and by doing so has served as a moral force in his/her association with the other members of the student body.
Determination: The recipient has exemplified the degree to which physical, mental and moral improvement can be made through a determined approach in these areas.
Conscientiousness: The recipient has demonstrated the conscious will to succeed in his/her athletic endeavors and in his/her academic and social relationships on the campus.
LillyBelle Deer (CMC: Senior – Women’s Swimming and Women’s Water Polo)
Deer was the leader of the Athena swim team as a senior. She helped her team to a 31-0 SCIAC dual-meet record and four SCIAC championships during her career. She is a SCIAC champion in the 200-yard freestyle and has participated on multiple conference championship winning relay teams. Deer is an All-American and SCIAC record holder in the 400-yard freestyle relay and a multi-time honorable mention All-American in other relays. She won the swim & dive team’s “Iris Critchell” award for being the most inspirational member of the team. She broke her foot during the spring of her junior year and diligently rehabbed to the point where she was in position to set multiple personal records as a senior. She had the self-discipline to be a four-year member of two varsity sports (swim and water polo). Both sports hold double-day practices throughout the year. She was in-season from late September through early May all four years of her career. Outside of the athletic arena, Deer served as a RA at CMC.
Samantha Kunz (CMC: Senior – Women’s Soccer)
A 3-year starter and 4-year player, Kunz was a key contributor on defense. She was always one of the best players on the field each and every game during her junior and senior seasons because of her consistency and defensive skills. Stats don’t properly show her contribution to the team, although she was one of the main reasons the Athenas were SCIAC champions in 2014. Among her season highlights were scoring the game winner vs. La Verne which was featured on SportsCenter’s Top-10 Plays on Oct. 29, 2014. Other accolades include the following; second team All-SCIAC as a junior and MVP of the defense, second team All-West Region Scholar Athlete, MVP of the defense as a senior, first team All-SCIAC, runner-up for Gosset Prize in Stats, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and co-captain of the women’s soccer team. She also started an entrepreneurial club on campus, ran the Los Angeles Marathon in March of 2015 to support financial aid fundraising efforts for CMC, served as founder and director for the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, was a CMC Admissions tour guide and served on the ASCMC Athletic Advisory Committee along with participating in several other activities.
Noelle and Veronique Boucquey Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Award (SCR)
The recipient exhibits:
Athletic Excellence: The student-athlete has exhibited outstanding performance in his or her sport. The athlete could be, but does not necessarily have to be, the “best” player on a team; rather, the recipient should be the one who has worked the hardest to reach his or her full potential as an athlete.
Academic Excellence: The student-athlete has achieved excellence in his or her full complement of studies.
Leadership: The student-athlete has exhibited outstanding leadership both on the playing field and in campus life. Leadership in athletics would be exhibited by the desire and ability to inspire other team members, through hard work, commitment, and sportsmanship, to give their all to the team. Campus leadership would be exhibited through meaningful participation in campus activities
Molly Freed (SCR: Senior – Women’s Soccer)
A 4-year player and often a starter, she had her best season as a senior and kept the Athenas in games with her play as goalie, especially at the end of the year. She posted a goals-against average (GAA) of .88, giving up 12 goals against in 16 games. Off the soccer field, she is also a leader on the Scripps College campus. She has been a huge part of the Motley and even made manager this year and is an outstanding student as an environmental analysis major. Other accolades included honorable mention Scholar All-West Region and Phi Beta Kappa. In her words on what she does with the Motley: “I do a lot of things as a representative of the Motley: organize Whiteness and Privilege educational events, work with the Water Task Force to reduce water use in our business, create a safe space for survivors of sexual assault to share their stories, and hire students on campus to bake for us. I really use my position at the Motley to get involved with all the other campus issues that I'm passionate about.”
The recipient exhibits:
Athletic Excellence: The student-athlete has exhibited outstanding performance in his or her sport. The athlete could be, but does not necessarily have to be, the “best” player on a team; rather, the recipient should be the one who has worked the hardest to reach his or her full potential as an athlete.
Academic Excellence: The student-athlete has achieved excellence in his or her full complement of studies.
Leadership: The student-athlete has exhibited outstanding leadership both on the playing field and in campus life. Leadership in athletics would be exhibited by the desire and ability to inspire other team members, through hard work, commitment, and sportsmanship, to give their all to the team. Campus leadership would be exhibited through meaningful participation in campus activities.
Sara Mostatabi (CMC: Senior – Women’s Cross Country and Track)
She has competed in both cross country and track for four years and she has been a critical part of seven SCIAC championship winning teams. In cross country, she was the Rossi Award winner as a freshman, given to the freshman who most exemplifies the positive CMS image. She logged the most miles run by any female in CMS history during one summer; 840 miles (90 days, an average of 9.33 per day). She ran 3,035 miles over her four summers (8.43 miles every day). She is one of only three CMS athletes and six in SCIAC history that earned four first team All-SCIAC awards, and one of five ever to be a four-time first team All-West Region recipient. She competed at four NCAA Division III Championships, each year finishing in the top-100 athletes out of 280. The team finished in fourth, third, 14th and 10th during her career at Nationals. In track, she placed each year in the SCIAC Championships in both the 1,500 meters and the 5,000 meters.
She has also served on campus as a math grader, women’s forum organizational leader and as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, among other activities.
Warren Wood (CMC: Senior – Men’s Tennis)
The senior captain completed a rare Division III men's tennis triple crown at the 2015 NCAA Division III Tennis Championships from May 18-23 in Mason, Ohio. On Wednesday, May 20, playing number one singles and number one doubles, he led the Stags to the team championship, 5-0 over Middlebury for the program's first team national title since 1981. Three days later, he completed the sweep by winning the singles national title (first since 1993), defeating his teammate, junior Skyler Butts, in the morning final. Later in the day he then paired with senior teammate Joe Dorn to win the doubles championship (first since 2008) over Robert Kjellberg and Sebastian Sikhfrom North Carolina Wesleyan. Wood finished his career with more wins than any other player in program history with over 100 wins in both singles and doubles. Wood is the winningest player in program history, surpassing the 100-win mark in both singles and doubles earlier this season. He has earned ITA All-America honors seven times overall, been named the SCIAC Athlete of the Year twice, won the prestigious Ojai singles championship twice and reached the finals of the NCAA Division III Singles Championship for the second year in a row. He ended his career by being selected as the ITA National Senior Player of the Year.
CMC FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Kimberly Scamman (CMC: Senior – Women’s Basketball)
As a senior she was a D3hoops.com All-American (second ever for an Athena) a two-time All-Region selection (first ever Athena) and the 2014-15 SCIAC Athlete of the Year. She finished her season in the SCIAC top-10 in five major statistical categories (points per game, field goal percentage, free throw percentage, rebounds per game and steals). She led the Athenas to a SCIAC championship, SCIAC Postseason Tournament championship and an NCAA postseason appearance. She led the team in points, rebounds and steals. After scoring 41 points against John Hopkins, she earned D3hoops.com Team of the Week honors. Scamman set program records (free throws made in a game and a season). Playing just three seasons, she is ninth all-time in points and is second all-time in free throws made. In back-to-back seasons, she led the team to its best record in program history. During those two seasons, the Athenas set team records for longest overall win streak and longest conference win streak. She appears in the CMS women’s basketball record book no less than 20 times. CMS won back-to-back conference championships for just the second time ever.
HMC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Zorg Loustalet (HMC: Junior - Men's Cross Country and Track)
As a junior he was selected as SCIAC Runner of the Year for cross country in 2014. He finished in first for CMS in every race during 2014 and placed 15th overall at the NCAA Division III Championships. He is the first-ever CMS male to earn two All-America awards in cross country. He ran the second-fastest time ever for a CMS cross country runner for an 8k. Also, he has been chosen for three-straight first team All-SCIAC selections and first team All-West Region selections.
SCRIPPS ALUMNAE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Molly Freed (SCR: Senior – Women’s Soccer)
A 4-year player and often a starter, she had her best season as a senior and kept the Athenas in games with her play as goalie, especially at the end of the year. She posted a goals-against average (GAA) of .88, giving up 12 goals against in 16 games. Off the soccer field, she is also a leader on the Scripps College campus. She has been a huge part of the Motley and even made manager this year and is an outstanding student as an environmental analysis major. Other accolades included honorable mention Scholar All-West Region and Phi Beta Kappa. In her words on what she does with the Motley: “I do a lot of things as a representative of the Motley: organize Whiteness and Privilege educational events, work with the Water Task Force to reduce water use in our business, create a safe space for survivors of sexual assault to share their stories, and hire students on campus to bake for us. I really use my position at the Motley to get involved with all the other campus issues that I'm passionate about.”
Shaina Raskin (SCR: Senior – Women’s Golf)
Raskin completed her career with SCIAC awards each of her four years, including a second team All-SCIAC selection in 2015. She finished 11th at the 2015 SCIAC Championships. Under Raskin's leadership, the team finished the year ranked No. 10 by Golfstat.com after having climbed steadily in the rankings during her career. As a junior in 2013-14, she was selected as the SCIAC Athlete of the Year and she is also a two-time first team All-Conference selection. Last season she finished second at the SCIAC Championships. She holds the CMS record for the lowest round.
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