{"id":1159,"date":"2015-09-03T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:23:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:23:16","slug":"athletes-honored-at-annual-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/2015\/09\/03\/athletes-honored-at-annual-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes Honored at Annual Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Groner was named Male Athlete of the Year and Erica Rottinghaus was named Female Athlete of the Year at the Missouri Western\/St. Joseph News-Press 16<sup>th<\/sup> annual Student-Athlete Honors Banquet in April.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2014 season, Groner, a senior football player, made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll and was named to the Don Hansen NCAA Division II All-America Team and second-team Don Hansen All-Super Region Three Team. He earned first-team All-MIAA honors and played in all 11 games, punting 60 times for a total of 2,533 yards and a 42.2 yards-per-punt average.<\/p>\n<p><span>In her senior year alone, volleyball player Rottinghaus earned AVCA All-American honorable mention honors, was AVCA all-district first team and first-team All-MIAA. In the classroom, she made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll and was named an MIAA scholar-athlete. She was also selected to the CoSida academic all-district team and made the Captial One Academic All-America first team. On the court, she played in 30 matches, starting in 28, and led the team with 396 kills and an average of 3.60 kills per set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Groner and Rottinghaus also were recipients of the Tom Smith Career Achievement Award, introduced at last year\u2019s banquet to honor an outstanding career-long contributor and named after the school\u2019s hall of fame men\u2019s basketball coach. Joining them as a Smith Award recipient was Griffons softball\u2019s senior second baseman Tiffany Gillaspy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Senior soccer forward A.J. Powers claimed the James J. McMillen Award, given to the graduating athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average, and women\u2019s basketball senior forward Alex Saxen won the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Volunteer of the Year Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Groner was named Male Athlete of the Year and Erica Rottinghaus was named Female Athlete of the Year at the Missouri Western\/St. Joseph News-Press 16th annual Student-Athlete Honors Banquet in April. During the 2014 season, Groner, a senior football player, made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll and was named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}