NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) announced the Merle Chapman Leadership Award recipients on Tuesday.
This award is named after the former Millikin Athletics Director and the CCIW's second commissioner, who served in that capacity from 1997-2002. The award identifies the student-athletes that best exemplify the traits that Chapman displayed and encouraged during his three-plus decades of service as teacher, coach and mentor to the athletes, coaches and administrators of the CCIW. Those traits are loyalty, enthusiasm, leadership, sportsmanship, and a commitment to academic, athletic and personal excellence.
Each CCIW institution selects one male and one female from their Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) who participates in a CCIW-sponsored sport.
2019-20 Merle Chapman Award Winners
Augustana
Maddy Murillo (Women's Basketball)
Danny Artman (Men's Soccer)
Carroll
Lindsey Coons (Women's Swimming & Diving)
Clay Schult (Baseball)
Carthage
Sarah Schmidt (Women's Track & Field)
Jacob Allard (Men's Volleyball)
Elmhurst
Heather Hoffmann (Women's Soccer)
Justin Hames (Wrestling)
Illinois Wesleyan
Ally Wiegand (Softball)
Garrett Shea (Baseball)
Millikin
Kalli Farmer (Softball)
Evan Betz (Wrestling)
North Central
Emily Miller (Softball)
Marco Soto (Men's Soccer)
North Park
Hannah Rosenbaum (Women's Tennis)
Herman Rodriguez (Football)
Wheaton
Claire Browning (Women's Tennis)
Will Woodfin (Men's Soccer)
The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) was founded in 1946 and currently services nine member institutions including Augustana College (Rock Island, IL), Carroll University (Waukesha, WI), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), Elmhurst College (Elmhurst, IL), Illinois Wesleyan University (Bloomington, IL), Millikin University (Decatur, IL), North Central College (Naperville, IL), North Park University (Chicago, IL) and Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). During the 2018-19 academic year, the CCIW honored over 2,200 academic all-conference recipients, 18 CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, 43 CoSIDA Academic All-District recipients, and over 100 all-Americans.