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Show Banquet honors athletes and athletic director by Jeremy Worthen sports editor On Monday, May 6, the annual CEU athletic awards banquet was held in the Alumni Room. The purpose of the evening, according to athletic information director, Bill Painter is to acknowledge the efforts of CEU's men and women athletes. Womens basketball and baseball coach, Dave Paur, began the evening with a short little speech commending all of the athletes for showing the courage to participate at the college level. He began the awards presentation by naming the womens basketball player award going to sophomore Cami Taylor. The next award was one that should have been given last year, but wasnt. It was an award recognizing Rebbcca Elison for being the first womens basketball player to be named to the first The last award was team the Most Valuable Player award. This award went to two ladies: Karlene Kallas and Lindsay Allen. Allen was also voted the Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year. For the baseball presentations Paur turned the microphone over to assistant head coach, Eric Madsen. Once again the first award was the Most Improved Player award. This went to Ryan Lay. The next was the Charlie Hustle" or hardest worker award which went to Tyson Bracket. The Outstand most-improv- All-Regio- ed V basketball player, shows Versile Shaw, CEU's latest everyone where he belongs as he accepts the award for Most Outstanding Male Athlete of the Year. Versile was also named as basketball's Most Valuable Player. Photo by Jennie Sitterud. n. ing Hitter award went to Amos Bright. Travis Cloward was recognized as outstanding pitcher of the year. The baseball teams most valuable player was given to Troy Farnsworth. The next section of the banquet was given to the volleyball team and head Coach coach Brent Matindale. Martindalc gave out Defensive Player of the Year first, this went to Lori team , season 5fends ftVWS s f Vi vjtawitKitdUgh'Si loss to SLCC . . The 1996 tennis team ended its season with a loss to Salt Lake Community College last week. The team looked strong in some areas, but was lacking in others, as they dropped the close match to a tough team on the courts adjacent to die college. ; Freshman Tom Akerson said, 1 had tons of fim even though 1 lost. I'm glad I got the chance to play." The team was coached by Curt Jenson who was unavailable for comment on the season. 'If," 1 $ Photo: Oris of CEU's singles players serves at a recent 3 match against SLCC In Price.1 ' All-Regi- on Co-MV- P. Junsie Cotten. For the first award, Lincoln Taylor was given the Most Improved Player award. Freshman of the Year went to Mitchell Johnson. For most outstanding player, the coaching staff recognized Ime Udoka. Noel Jackson was cited as being the Best Defensive Player of the Year. The season was MVP for the 1995-9- 6 Versile Shaw, who was also voted as the Outstanding Male Athlete of the An incredible sports figure in the history of Utah is planning a change of pace next February During the alhcllic awards banquet, each coach paid respect to Curt Jenson, who will retire next winter quarter. They thanked him for his support and the fact that they had a job. Jenson is a native of Sandy, Utah, where he graduated from Jordan High baseball School, lie earned and basketball honors. I le continued to the University of Utah and was named and in both sports. He played in the basketball game in Kansas, City. Following college, he played five seasons of professional ball in the Boston Red Sox organization, lie received his first official coaching duties while serving in the U.S. Air Force. His baseball team won two European Championships, and placed second in the Air te ct East-We- st ? Year. The underlying theme of the evening seemed to be honoring retiring Athletic Director Curt Jenson. All of the coaches seemed to be in agreement that if it wasn't for Jenson, they wouldn't have their jobs. The athletic department as a whole honored Jenson with a gift of appreciation for all of the years of service he has put in at CEU. Athletic director praised at banquet All-Sta- ' . Williams. Next was Offensive Player of the Year. This award went to Laveme Tulia. The next award was the Rudy Award, or most inspirational. This went to freshman Melanie Strong. The MVP of the volleyball team this year was Lori Williams. The final sport to make its presentations was the mens basketball program under coaches Guy Beach and Sophomore Lindsay Allen thanks the coaching staff for selecting her as Female Athlete of the Year. Allen was also team and selected as the women's named to the Photo by Jennie Sitterud. basketball All-St- ar Force tournament. Returning to Utah, he was an assistant coach at Utah State University and the University of Utah before arriving at the College of Eastern Utah in 1964 as head basketball coach. His first CEU team won the conference championship and advanced to the NJCAA finals in I lutchinson, Kansas. By the time the dust settled, the 964-6- 5 Golden Eagles finished third in the nation with a 23-- 9 record. In the 22 years that followed, his basketball teams chalked up a record 360 wins and 280 losses. Jenson also coached baseball for 16 years at the college. He became CEU Athletic Director in 1990. He was inducted in to CEU's Hall of Fame in February 1993. world-wid- e 1 |