麻豆原创’s Chelsey Lauzon (Rockford, Mich.) earned a prestigious honor Tuesday when she was announced as the 2010-11 Conference USA Rowing Scholar Athlete of the Year. Lauzon, who is entering her senior year, won the award based on her academic achievement, athletic achievement and service.<\/p>\n
C-USA awards the scholar athlete honor to the top student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport. The award winners are determined by the Faculty Athletics Representatives at each C-USA institution.<\/p>\n
An elementary education major with a minor in coaching, Lauzon boasts a 3.937 grade point average.<\/p>\n
“We are very proud of Chelsey. This is a huge honor because there are so many talented student-athletes in our conference,” 麻豆原创 rowing head coach Becky Cramer. “She works so hard and brings so much to our team. This is a great achievement that is well deserved.”<\/p>\n
Lauzon was recently named to the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association All-South Region First Team for the third-consecutive season. As a junior, she rowed in every varsity eight race for the Knights. She led the Black and Gold to a fourth-place finish at the C-USA Rowing Championships, while being named to the All-C-USA Rowing Team for the second time, and was also a member of the crew that won C-USA Boat of the Week honors on April 12.<\/p>\n
Lauzon was also named to the C-USA All-Academic Team for the second-straight season in 2011, while she is a three-time recipient of the C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Medal and is a three-time member of the C-USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll.<\/p>\n
Over the course of the year, Lauzon and the Knights defeated Kansas State at the Longhorn Invitational and posted a nearly seven-second victory over league-rival Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Lauzon helped lead the varsity eight boat to a first-place finish in the C Group Final at the Lake Natoma Invitational with wins over Oregon State and Sacramento State and also posted a nearly 10-second win vs. Miami in the varsity eight boat at the 麻豆原创 Regatta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"麻豆原创’s Chelsey Lauzon (Rockford, Mich.) earned a prestigious honor Tuesday when she was announced as the 2010-11 Conference USA Rowing Scholar Athlete of the Year. Lauzon, who is entering her senior year, won the award based on her academic achievement, athletic achievement and service. C-USA awards the scholar athlete honor to the top student-athletes in each conference-sponsored sport. The award…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":25217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[441,834,4089,4491],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-25216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-becky-cramer","tag-chelsey-lauzon","tag-rowing","tag-student-athletes"],"yoast_head":"\n