GMU honors athletes
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By JUSTIN CREECH
For the News & Messenger
Published: May 11, 2008
On Wednesday a trio of seniors received three of the highest awards in George Mason Athletics. Laura King of the Women’s Lacrosse team was named the 2007-2008 Female Student-Athlete of the Year, beating out last year’s winner Murielle Ahoure of the Track and Field team. Will Thomas of the Men’s Basketball team was named 2007-2008 Male Student-Athlete of the Year and Dan Jaycox of the baseball team was given The Aimee Willard commemorative award, which is presented to the Mason student-athlete who best exemplifies intensity, consistency of purpose, achievement and teamwork.
King, who was also named First-Team All CAA helped the women’s lacrosse team to a program record 12 wins overall and a record five conference wins.
Thomas was a key component in the men’s basketball team winning its first CAA tournament championship since 2001 and its third appearance in the NCAA tournament this decade. Thomas, too, was named First-Team All CAA as well as the CAA All-Defensive Team. Thomas also finished his career among the top 10 all-time in school history in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
Jaycox has started 10 games for the Patriots baseball team in 2008. For his career, Jaycox is third all-time in strikeouts, fourth all-time in strikeouts per nine innings, fifth all-time in strikeout-to-walk ratio and 15th all-time in games started.
Ashli Breau and Ciera Jones of the Mason softball team were also recognized on Wednesday night. Breau was named to the All-CAA second team and Jones was named to the All-Rookie team.
Breau set the Patriots single season record for home runs with 11 and had the second highest RBI total with 48. Jones batted .287 for the season with a .419 slugging percentage and team-high two triples as the Patriots finished 19-32 for the season. Jones went 5-for-5 with five RBI on Apr. 9 against Mount St. Mary’s.
The George Mason Wrestling team received honors on Friday as it received 2007-2008 NWCA Division 1 All-Academic Wrestling Team honors. The Patriots ranked 12th in the nation with a cumulative team GPA of 3.062.
Mason Wrestling won 13 dual meets in 2007-2008, the program’s highest win total for a season since 1991-92, and sent Cayle Byers and Randy Oates to the NCAA Division 1 Wrestling Championships.
Byers was named to the CAA All-Rookie Team along with fellow freshmen Brandon Bucher and Frankie McLaughlin. Byers led the team with 37 wins, while McLaughlin posted a 21-9 overall record. Bucher posted 12 total wins as he split time at the 141 and 149 weight classes.
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