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Wku Athletics WKU ATHLETICS ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 Since joining Conference USA in 2014-15, WKU has nine more championships than the closest member school and continues to graduate student-athletes and serve the greater southcentral Kentucky community at a record pace! 2018-19 Annual Report Hello Hilltopper Nation! The 2018-19 year marked continued success throughout WKU Athletics, both on and off the field of competition. We have claimed 25 total conference championships across our five years in Conference USA, which is nine more than the next closest league member. That success has been widespread throughout the department, with seven different programs winning titles since entering the league in 2014-15. For the third straight season, WKU produced a league-best 41 C-USA Player of the Week honorees, and we had 151 student-athletes named to the Commissioner’s Honor Roll for Academic Excellence. A total of 69 student-athletes graduated during the 2018-19 year with a combined grade point average of 3.21. Additionally, WKU Athletics has continued to serve the community through our Hilltoppers with Heart program with more than 3,000 hours of community service in Bowling Green and beyond. Men’s basketball continued to take on the best of the best, going 3-1 against the Power Five with wins over #15 Wisconsin and #13 West Virginia, and a road win at Arkansas. The Hilltoppers are 7-3 against the Power Five over the last two seasons, while Gonzaga, Seton Hall and Villanova are the only non-Power Five programs with more such wins during that span. Despite losing major contributors and facing its most difficult schedule in many years, women’s basketball earned its seventh-straight 20-win season and advanced to the third round of the WNIT. The volleyball team was also a model of consistency with its 19th-straight 20-win season. The men’s golf program sent two individuals to NCAA Regionals for the first time, while Billy Tom Sargent went on to become the first Hilltopper to ever compete in the NCAA Championships, tying for 11th with honorable mention All-American honors. On the women’s side, Lady Topper golf won its sixth team title in five years, and Mary Joiner set a new C-USA record with six career wins. Softball finished 37-13 to claim the C-USA East Division title and post the best winning percentage in program history. Our baseball team reached the C-USA Tournament for the first time after our best regular season finish since 2011 (4th). After becoming the first Triple Crown winner in league history, Jake Sanford became the fourth highest draft pick in program history when he was selected in the third round by the New York Yankees. WKU Track and Field also produced All-Americans during both its indoor and outdoor campaigns. As you know, much of our success comes against programs with far greater resources than we have. Our dominance in winning conference titles has come despite ranking 11th of 14 Conference USA schools in revenue generated by student fees, as well as 12th in total Todd Stewart budget. Our ability to succeed at such a high level through these challenges is a credit to our Director of Intercollegiate Athletics outstanding coaches, student-athletes and staff. We take great pride in going toe-to-toe with the best and putting ourselves in position each year to compete for championships. We are excited about all that is ahead of us in 2019-20 and look forward to sharing many more great moments with you over the next year. Thank you again for all of your tremendous support of our student-athletes, coaches and programs! Go Tops! Todd Stewart Director of Intercollegiate Athletics 1 2 WKU Athletics 2018-19 Annual Report TOPSY Awards For the second annual TOPSY Awards, the Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers shined on the red carpet as WKU Athletics honored its best and brightest during the yearly awards dinner and celebration ceremony. Back for his second year at the microphone, former WKU letterman Doug Gorman helped hand out 24 awards ranging from Scholar-Athlete of the Year to Rookie of the Year to Team of the Year. The night began with a dinner on the floor of E.A. Diddle Arena and concluded across the Avenue of Champions in the Downing Student Union. New for 2019 were three awards including the Phillip Hatchett Hilltopper Spirit Award, named in honor of the former men’s golf coach and given to a student-athlete who best exemplified everything Coach Hatchett stood for: class, character, and a commitment to their teammates in everything they do. The first-ever winner of the award was senior men’s golfer Billy Tom Sargent. The Male and Female Student-Athlete of the Year were also honored at the event for the first time. 2018-19 TOPSY Award Winners Male Community Outreach Award – Moustapha Diagne, Men’s Basketball Female Community Outreach Award – Kaylyn Bryant, Soccer Team Community Outreach Award - Volleyball Male Rookie of the Year—Charles Bassey, Men’s Basketball Female Rookie of the Year – Kennedy Sullivan, Softball Men’s Scholar Team of the Year – Men’s Cross Country Men’s Scholar Team of the Year (Runner-Up) - Men’s Golf Women’s Scholar Team of the Year – Women’s Golf Women’s Scholar Team of the Year (Runner-Up) - Soccer Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year – Blake Smith, Men’s Golf Female Scholar Athlete of the Year- Megan Morris, Soccer Best Male Record-Breaking Performance – Jake Sanford, Baseball Best Female Record-Breaking Performance – Katie Isenbarger, Volleyball/Track & Field Head Coach of the Year – Amy Tudor, Softball Support Staff of the Year – Sarah Hurdish, Athletic Training Administrator of the Year – Debbie Carroll, Business Administration Phillip Hatchett Hilltopper Spirit Award - Billy Tom Sargent, Men’s Golf Best Comeback Award – Men’s Golf Best Upset Award - Men’s Basketball Mr. Hilltopper Award – Julien Lewis, Football Ms. Hilltopper Award – Mary Joiner, Women’s Golf Overall Team Performance – Softball John O. Oldham Male Student-Athlete of the Year - Jake Sanford, Baseball John O. Oldham Female Student-Athlete of the Year - Dee Givens, Women’s Basketball 3 Hilltoppers with Heart Each year, WKU Athletics’ community service initiative “Hilltoppers with Heart” aims to give student-athletes, coaches and staff the chance to give back to their communities, both in southcentral Kentucky and beyond. For four consecutive years, the program has eclipsed the 3,000 hour benchmark in community service hours after crossing the mark for the first time in program history in 2016. Hilltoppers with Heart is designed to give WKU student-athletes, coaches and staff the unique opportunity to make an impact in the community by volunteering their time and talents. Since its inception, the program has contributed over 20,000 hours of community service. 4 WKU Athletics 2018-19 Annual Report 5 Hilltoppers in the Pros Courtney Lee Jack Doyle Dallas Mavericks Indianapolis Colts Alexis Govan George Fant PAOK Thessaloniki Seattle Seahawks 6 WKU Athletics 2018-19 Annual Report Ben Morrison, Burlington Bees Tyler Higbee, Los Angeles Rams Taywan Taylor, Tennessee Titans Sarah Gorham, Lidköpings FK Kenny Perry, PGA/Champions Tour Forrest Lamp, Los Angeles Chargers Anderson Miller, NW Arkansas Naturals Mike White, Dallas Cowboys Joel Iyiegbuniwe, Chicago Bears Jacob Rhinesmith, Hagerstown Suns Deon Yelder, Kansas City Chiefs 7 Marquee Wins WKU Baseball 7 WKU Football 30 WKU Basketball 83 Old Dominion 4 Louisiana Tech 15 #15 Wisconsin 76 (C-USA Tournament) WKU Basketball 63 WKU Basketball 78 WKU Basketball 71 #13 West Virginia 57 Arkansas 77 Saint Mary’s 68 8 WKU Athletics 2018-19 Annual Report WKU Softball 4 WKU Softball 8 WKU Volleyball 3 #17 Kentucky 1 North Texas 0 Notre Dame 2 WKU Volleyball 3 WKU Women’s Basketball 67 WKU Women’s Basketball 67 (RV) Cincinnati 1 Middle Tennessee 56 Miami (Ohio) 63 (Women’s NIT) 9 10 WKU Athletics 2018-19 Annual Report Hilltopper Golf The 2018-19 WKU Hilltopper Golf team endured a great tragedy after the passing of coach Phillip Hatchett in summer 2018, but the squad rallied together in his honor to turn in the best season in more than a decade. The Hilltoppers produced some of their best results in many seasons, came within two strokes of advancing to match play in the Conference USA Championship, and had a postseason to remember because of the individual play of seniors Stuart Easton and Billy Tom Sargent. Sargent capped the year in memorable fashion with an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Championships – the first trip ever to the top stage in college golf by a Hilltopper. Play 4 Coach The program was left reeling in June 2018 when longtime head coach Phillip Hatchett, a WKU alumnus and former standout player, was killed in a cycling accident at the age of 55. The Hilltoppers and Hatchett had been building toward the 2018-19 season, and they made sure that his efforts didn’t go unrewarded. While wearing wristbands that said “Play 4 Coach” and patches on their golf bags that read “P4C,” the players kept Hatchett with them in spirit all season and honored his memory with each outing. Conference USA also renamed its annual Coach of the Year award in Hatchett’s honor. Sargent, Easton Make Postseason History WKU seniors Billy Tom Sargent and Stuart Easton became the first pair of Hilltoppers to advance to a NCAA Regional in the same year. While they competed in separate regionals because Easton earned his spot as an alternate, Sargent emerged victorious from the Athens site after taking the individual NCAA berth in a playoff.
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