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Kim Vaughan and Andy Rollins Earn Top Senior Awards at Lynchburg College Athletic BanquetLauren Askey and Kim Vaughan Named Women’s Soccer All-StateKim Vaughan and Lauren Askey Named All-South RegionKim Vaughan and Lauren Askey Named First-Team All-ODACLauren Askey and Casey Zambor Earn CoSIDA All-District HonorsEMU Defeats Hornet Women’s Soccer 1-0W&L Earns Top Seed in ODAC Women’s Soccer TourneyLC Women’s Soccer Ties Methodist 1-1Lynchburg Women’s Soccer Battles Virginia Wesleyan To A 0-0 DrawW&L Women’s Soccer Defeats Lynchburg 1-0Hornet Women’s Soccer Defeats RMC 7-0Kim Vaughan Scores Twice as Lynchburg Defeats Sweet Briar 3-0LC Women’s Soccer Defeats Emory & Henry 6-0Kim Vaughan Scores Twice as LC Defeats Greensboro 2-0Guilford Defeats LC Women’s Soccer 1-0Roanoke Defeats LC Women's Soccer 2-1Christopher Newport Tops LC Women’s Soccer 2-0Lynchburg Defeats Hollins Soccer 10-0Ashley Hoath Nets Hat Trick as LC Defeats R-MWC 11-0LC Women’s Soccer Defeats Bridgewater 1-0LC Women’s Soccer Scores Late Twice to Beat Emory 2-0LC Women’s Soccer Defeats Chowan 3-1Hornets and Haverford Play to 0-0 Double OT Tie Haverford Wins Tournament in Penalty Kick Shootout

For immediate release – 4/30/2007 - #343

Kim Vaughan and Andy Rollins Earn Top Senior Awards at Lynchburg College Athletic Banquet

LYNCHBURG, VA – Women’s soccer player Kim Vaughan (Baltimore, MD/Parkville) and track & field standout Andy Rollins (Ooltewah, TN/McCallie) took home the Female and Male Senior Athlete of the Year Awards Monday evening at the 2006-07 Lynchburg College athletic awards banquet.

Kim VaughanVaughan, a midfielder, led the Hornet soccer squad to Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) titles in 2004 and 2005 and into the NCAA Division III Tournament’s round of 16 in each of those seasons. A two-time All-American, she earned first-team All-ODAC and All-South Region honors in each of her four seasons and was the LC Athlete of the Year last year.

 

 

 

 

Rollins is the Lynchburg College and ODAC record-holder in both the indoor and outdoor vault. This season, he isAndy Rollins ranked first in the event in NCAA Division III, clearing 16’4 3/4" and has won every meet he has entered this year, against Division I, Division II and Division III competition.

 

 

 

Softball player Caroline Cubbage (Bridgewater, VA/Turner Ashby) and baseball player Ronnie LaBrie (Vinton, VA/Staunton River) were named the school’s Female and Male Athletes of the year. Cubbage, a senior right fielder, earned the ODAC Player of the Year Award last week and was named the conference tournament’s most valuable player after leading LC to its first softball crown since 1996. For the season, she is hitting .533 with 58 runs and 112 total bases (11 doubles and 15 home runs), to lead the conference. Cubbage has walked a school-record 51 times to post a .694 on-base percentage, and has a slugging mark of 1.067.

LaBrie, a junior shortstop, ranks in the ODAC top five in nine different statistical categories. He leads the ODAC in runs, totals bases and triples while tying for the top spot in hits and RBI. LaBrie also is third in the conference in slugging percentage and is fourth in batting average and on-base percentage.

Allie Weir (Richmond, VA/James River) and Chris Word (Lynchburg, VA/E.C. Glass) were selected as the Female and Male Rookies of the Year. Weir, an attacker on the field hockey squad, earned the All-ODAC and All-State Rookie of the year Award this fall after leading the conference in goals and points. Word is the fastest freshman in program history in the 400-meter dash and ranks first in the ODAC in the event. He also is second in the conference in the 200-meter dash and fourth in the 100-meter dash.

John Witt (Bedford, VA/Liberty), a junior member of the men’s soccer team, earned the Men’s Scholar Athlete Award, while three women shared the Female Scholar Athlete Award, senior soccer player Catherine Adams (Lynchburg, VA/E.C Glass), junior soccer player Lauren Askey (Baltimore, MD/Loch Raven) and sophomore softball player Brittany Allsop (Milford, CT/Johnathan Law). Jim McLaughlin, an assistant professor in the exercise physiology department, received the Betty Spencer Award for the most dedicated Hornet fan.

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