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St. Norbert�s Andrew Winters Receives MWC Sportsmanship Award

RIPON, WIS. -- Andrew Winters of St. Norbert College has been named the Midwest Conference�s 2007 Sportsmanship Award Winner. The MWC Awards and Recognition Committee annually selects a men�s and women�s Sportsmanship Award Winner, although no female student-athletes were nominated this year.

The MWC Sportsmanship Award honors student-athletes who consistently demonstrate good sportsmanship and ethical behavior throughout their intercollegiate participation, while also demonstrating good citizenship outside of the sports setting.

Winters, who is a Green Bay, Wisconsin native, graduated from St. Norbert in May with degrees in Mathematics and Economics. He adds the Sportsmanship honor to a slew of awards he compiled on and off the field during his time representing the Green Knights� men�s soccer and men�s tennis programs.

The six-time MWC Academic All-Conference selection is set to attend Marquette University this fall after being named as a recipient of an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. He was also recently named a CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American for the third time in his career and was the 2006-07 MWC Roy LeClere Award winner, bestowed upon the league�s top academic multi-sport male athlete. In addition, Winters served the community in various capacities that included work with the Boys & Girls Club, coaching youth soccer, working with service organization Circle K, participating in the poverty awareness program Shack-A-Thon and serving St. Norbert athletics as the school�s representative on the MWC Student Athletic Advisory Committee.

Athletically, Winters was a two-time All-MWC pick on the soccer field, where he helped lead the Green Knights to three league titles and four conference tournament championships during his four seasons. He captured the No. 1 doubles tennis title with teammate Aaron Sunday in 2007 and was the No. 2 singles runner-up in 2006 and 2007.

Winters� virtues of sportsmanship were highlighted by the positive attitude he carried and the respect he showed towards coaches, teammates and opponents during his career. He was described by St. Norbert coaches and athletic administrators as a student-athlete who was looked upon as a role model by teammates. He was also noted as being an athlete who put the best interest of St. Norbert�s programs above his own personal accolades, while never compromising his own values.

Winters will now serve as the MWC�s nominee for the NCAA Division III Male Sportsmanship Award to be named later this month.


Submitted 2007-06-19 20:16:02 by D3Kicks.com Sports Information Department