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BAY CITY, Mich. — Michigan Technological University basketball player Angela Guisfredi (Hubbell, Mich./Lake Linden) and Wayne State University baseball player Michael Wiseman (Whitelake, Mich./Lakeland) are the recipients of the 2011 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Postgraduate Scholarship. The honor, which awards each recipient $5,000 in aid to the graduate school of their choice, was voted on by the Faculty Athletic Representatives of the GLIAC member institutions.
“On behalf of the GLIAC, I am proud to have two student-athletes of the caliber of Angela Guisfredi and Michael Wiseman as our 2011 GLIAC Postgraduate Scholarship Winners,” stated GLIAC Commissioner Dell Robinson. “They will continue to excel in the classroom and serve as leaders in their industry as well as their communities.”
Guisfredi helped the Michigan Tech women’s basketball team to three straight NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Championships and an NCAA runner-up finish in 2011. She earned GLIAC All-Academic Team accolades three times and was the NCAA Elite 88 Award Winner for Division II women’s basketball. Guisfredi set a school record and led the GLIAC in 3-point percentage at 50.4 this past season. A 2011 GLIAC Commissioner’s Award recipient, she graduated this past spring with a 3.94 grade point average in exercise science. Guisfredi, and her husband Mike VanWagner, a former hockey player at Michigan Tech, will both attend medical school at Michigan State University in the fall.
Wiseman was named
to three All-America teams in 2011, and was voted Division II
“Defensive Player of the Year” by the American Baseball
Coaches Association (ABCA), as he posted a 1.000 fielding
percentage and caught 18 runners stealing. Wiseman led Wayne State
with a .368 batting average (ninth in GLIAC) and a career-best 71
hits to lead the conference. The only Warrior to start all 56 games
in 2011, Wiseman was instrumental in Wayne State winning a
program-record 35 games and reaching the championship game of the
NCAA Division II Midwest Regional. He received All-GLIAC First-Team
honors for the third time in his career. Wiseman was a team
co-captain for the second straight year in 2011, served as
president of the student-athlete advisory committee, and helped
lead the baseball team to contribute over 1,500 hours of community
service during the 2010-11 academic year. A 2011 GLIAC
Commissioner’s Award winner, Wiseman graduated from the WSU
Business School this spring with a 3.55 grade point average.