Eight Horizon League track and field teams and seven Horizon League student-athletes have earned recognition for academic excellence from the U. S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The individual and team awards were announced by the association’s national office.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Milwaukee's Sarah Hagen earned 2011 Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) Midwest Co-Player of the Year honors, the organization announced. 

INDIANAPOLIS -- Three-time defending Horizon League champion Milwaukee was a near-unanimous choice to collect a fourth consecutive League crown, receiving seven first-place votes to sit atop the women’s soccer preseason poll. The Panthers earned the top spot with 63 points in voting conducted of the League’s nine head coaches. Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own squad.

Three Horizon League women’s basketball teams were recognized for academic excellence as the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top-25 Honor Roll was announced for the 2010-11 season, with Green Bay, Milwaukee and Youngstown State all making the list. 

INDIANAPOLIS -- Butler men’s basketball standout Matt Howard (Connersville, Ind./Connersville) and women’s basketball star Kayla Tetschlag (Sheboygan, Wis./North) of Green Bay have been named the recipients of the Horizon League’s 2010-11 Cecil N. Coleman Medal of Honor. Howard was the unanimous choice on the men’s ballot, while Tetschlag appeared on every women’s ballot cast.

Valparaiso outfielder Kyle Gaedele (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Youngstown State pitcher Phil Klein (Gahanna, Ohio) and Milwaukee pitcher Chad Pierce (Fond du Lac, Wis.) were among the names called over the three day Major League Baseball Rule 4 draft June 6-8. 

INDIANAPOLIS – On the strength of six Horizon League postseason championships, Butler University has won the James J. McCafferty Trophy as the Horizon League’s all-sports champion for the second straight year and the eighth time overall. For the Bulldogs, their eighth title snaps a tie with former League members Notre Dame and Oral Roberts.

Milwaukee senior Sam Sivilotti and Valparaiso senior Jon Gulbransen have been named Horizon League Baseball Players of the Week for the period of May 16-22. 

 

Milwaukee senior Cole Kraft and UIC freshman Collin Weyer have been named Horizon League Baseball Players of the Week for the period of May 9-15. 

 

 Milwaukee senior Cole Kraft and Cleveland State senior Coty Bates have been named Horizon League Baseball Players of the Week for the period of May 2-8.