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BAY CITY, Mich.
— Former Grand Valley State University football
player Alex Gilde (McBain, Mich.), and former
Michigan Technological University women’s basketball player
Katie Wysocky (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) were named the
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s (GLIAC)
2009-10 male and female “Scholar-Athletes of the Year,”
respectively, as voted by the league’s faculty athletics
representatives.
Alex Gilde posted a 3.94 grade point average
(4.0 scale) while majoring in biomedical science with a chemistry
minor. He has been a member of the Dean’s List all
eight semesters at Grand Valley State and is a three-time member of
the Academic All-GLIAC Team. In addition, Gilde is a two-time
recipient of the GLIAC Commissioner’s Award and most
recently was awarded the 2010 GLIAC Post-Graduate Scholarship. Alex
was one of only six GVSU students admitted into the Michigan State
University College of Human Medicine this past year. Gilde, who was
a 2009 First Team All-GLIAC honoree, earned Second Team ESPN The
Magazine All-American plaudits and was honored with the NCAA Elite
88 Award for earning the highest grade point average among
student-athletes competing in the D-II football championship.
Gilde was a key contributor in the
Lakers’ push to the 2009 NCAA D-II Football Championship
game. He tallied 29 tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss, and 4.5 sacks,
while blocking two kicks, forcing a fumble and recovering a fumble
during the 2009 campaign. Grand Valley State was 49-4 during
Gilde’s career with a National Championship and four GLIAC
titles.
Katie Wysocky, who boasted a 3.90 GPA (4.0
scale) in business administration, has earned two GLIAC
Commissioner’s Awards. She was the first player in school
history to earn All-American First Team honors. The six-foot
forward posted 25 double-doubles this past season while averaging
17.9 points and 11.3 rebounds per contest. She was named ESPN the
Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team, Daktronics Midwest
Region “Player of the Year” and Great Lakes
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference “Player of the
Year” in 2009-10.
Wysocky finished her career as the school
record holder for points in a season (609) and career (1,943) as
well as rebounds in a season (384) and career (1,231). She
led the Huskies to the GLIAC, GLIAC Tournament and NCAA Midwest
Region titles this past season, helping MTU earn its
second-straight berth in the Division II Elite Eight.
Both Gilde and Wysocky are now in the running
for the Division II Conference Commissioners Association
(CCA) Regional “Scholar-Athlete of the Year,”
awards presented by Disney’s Wide World of Sports.
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