SACE February Champions of the Month
2/11/2019 3:26:00 PM | General, Student-Athlete Center for Excellence, Preparing Champions for Life, Champions of the Month
Student-Athletes from Men’s Track & Field, Men’s Golf, Soccer and Softball selected as February Champions of the Month.
Waco, Texas – Matthew Moorer (men's track & field), Mark Reppe (men's golf), Jackie Crowther (soccer) and Nicky Dawson (softball) were selected as the Student-Athlete Center for Excellence (SACE) February Champions of the Month.
This award recognizes student-athletes who achieve their personal bests in the areas of academic achievement, athletic success, character formation and spiritual growth.
Each of these student-athletes was nominated by a SACE team member based upon their embodiment of each of the four pillars.
Moorer, a freshman from Ypsilanti, Mich., has stepped right into the leadoff role on the men's 4x400 relay team. The Bears won the Larry Wieczorek Invitational and had runner-up finishes at the Texas Tech Classic and Tyson Invitational with a season-best time of 3:04.49 that ranks fourth nationally.
An electrical engineering major, "Matthew has done an exceptional job of balancing the rigor of the engineering department and competing as a student-athlete," said academic coach Matt Davis. A two-time state champion and five-time all-state performer in Michigan, he also won the 200 meters at the Larry Wieczorek meet and has recorded season-best times of 21.35 in the 200 and 47.46 in the 400.
Part of the six-man golf team that won the inaugural Big 12 Match Play Championship in the fall, Reppe is a sophomore from Dallas who was ranked the seventh-best recruit in Texas two years ago out of Episcopal School of Dallas. He had a 75.00 stroke average playing as an individual in two fall tournaments and posted a 2-1-2 record in the match play tournament.
Mark has a 3.97 GPA as a pre-business major and is in his first year on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Quintin Jordan, Associate Director of Character Formation, says of Reppe: "He is an absolute rock star. Always has a positive attitude, contributes in every SAAC meeting and has really bought in to everything SAAC represents"
While helping the soccer team to a Big 12 championship and its second straight Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament, Crowther had a personal-best GPA with a perfect 4.00 in the fall semester. On pace to graduate in May with a bachelor's of science degree in psychology, Jackie has a 3.88 cumulative GPA and was selected to the Dean's List, first-team Academic All-Big 12 team and Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll in Fall 2018.
Last summer, the California native did more than 120 hours as an intern with Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Internal Medicine where she participated in physician shadowing and conducted research on the impact of modern healthcare on the physician-patient relationship. As a senior, Crowther recorded five goals and a team-high-tying seven assists and scored the game-winning overtime goal in a win over Texas Tech that sent the Bears to the Big 12 Championship game for the second year in a row.
After transferring from LSU, Dawson had a severe injury during her first semester at Baylor in Fall 2017 and had to take incompletes in all of her classes. While taking a full load in the spring, she was also able to finish all her fall classes while starting all 56 games at second base for the softball team and hitting .347 with a team-high four triples. "Nicky's constant pursuit and strive for excellence through adversity both on and off the field is truly inspiring," academic coach Emily DeRatt said.
A health, kinesiology and leisure studies major from Baton Rouge, La., Nicky came back from a stressful spring semester to earn her personal-best GPA in the fall. In the season-opening tournament in Mexico, Dawson hit .381 and shared the team lead with four RBI, helping the 18th-ranked Lady Bears post a 3-2 record that included a 4-1 win over No. 9 South Carolina.
This award recognizes student-athletes who achieve their personal bests in the areas of academic achievement, athletic success, character formation and spiritual growth.
Each of these student-athletes was nominated by a SACE team member based upon their embodiment of each of the four pillars.
Moorer, a freshman from Ypsilanti, Mich., has stepped right into the leadoff role on the men's 4x400 relay team. The Bears won the Larry Wieczorek Invitational and had runner-up finishes at the Texas Tech Classic and Tyson Invitational with a season-best time of 3:04.49 that ranks fourth nationally.
An electrical engineering major, "Matthew has done an exceptional job of balancing the rigor of the engineering department and competing as a student-athlete," said academic coach Matt Davis. A two-time state champion and five-time all-state performer in Michigan, he also won the 200 meters at the Larry Wieczorek meet and has recorded season-best times of 21.35 in the 200 and 47.46 in the 400.
Part of the six-man golf team that won the inaugural Big 12 Match Play Championship in the fall, Reppe is a sophomore from Dallas who was ranked the seventh-best recruit in Texas two years ago out of Episcopal School of Dallas. He had a 75.00 stroke average playing as an individual in two fall tournaments and posted a 2-1-2 record in the match play tournament.
Mark has a 3.97 GPA as a pre-business major and is in his first year on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Quintin Jordan, Associate Director of Character Formation, says of Reppe: "He is an absolute rock star. Always has a positive attitude, contributes in every SAAC meeting and has really bought in to everything SAAC represents"
While helping the soccer team to a Big 12 championship and its second straight Elite Eight in the NCAA Tournament, Crowther had a personal-best GPA with a perfect 4.00 in the fall semester. On pace to graduate in May with a bachelor's of science degree in psychology, Jackie has a 3.88 cumulative GPA and was selected to the Dean's List, first-team Academic All-Big 12 team and Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll in Fall 2018.
Last summer, the California native did more than 120 hours as an intern with Baylor Scott & White Hillcrest Internal Medicine where she participated in physician shadowing and conducted research on the impact of modern healthcare on the physician-patient relationship. As a senior, Crowther recorded five goals and a team-high-tying seven assists and scored the game-winning overtime goal in a win over Texas Tech that sent the Bears to the Big 12 Championship game for the second year in a row.
After transferring from LSU, Dawson had a severe injury during her first semester at Baylor in Fall 2017 and had to take incompletes in all of her classes. While taking a full load in the spring, she was also able to finish all her fall classes while starting all 56 games at second base for the softball team and hitting .347 with a team-high four triples. "Nicky's constant pursuit and strive for excellence through adversity both on and off the field is truly inspiring," academic coach Emily DeRatt said.
A health, kinesiology and leisure studies major from Baton Rouge, La., Nicky came back from a stressful spring semester to earn her personal-best GPA in the fall. In the season-opening tournament in Mexico, Dawson hit .381 and shared the team lead with four RBI, helping the 18th-ranked Lady Bears post a 3-2 record that included a 4-1 win over No. 9 South Carolina.
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