UT MARTIN ATHLETICS HOLDS 2022 UTMMY’S EVENT PRESENTED BY LEADERS CREDIT UNION
4/19/2022 9:09:00 PM | Baseball, Equestrian, Football, General, Men's Basketball, Golf, Rifle, Rodeo, Softball, Women's Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball, Men's Cross Country, Women's Cross Country, Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field, Beach Volleyball
The UTMmy's event, which made its debut in 2018, rewards Skyhawk student-athletes for their hard work throughout the academic year. Each UT Martin head coach submitted a Team Most Valuable Player and the award winners were selected from that pool.
Kelby Kane (equestrian) and Kamryn Chappell (soccer) were named 2022 Bettye Giles Co-Female Athletes of the Year while Peyton Logan (football) received the 2022 Bob Carroll Male Athlete of the Year trophy. In addition, Paige Clark from the UT Martin softball team earned the 2022 Leadership Award.
A Lexington, Ky. native, Kane captured first team All-American accolades for a Skyhawk equestrian squad that appeared in the national top-10 rankings in nine out of 10 weeks. She is the first rider in school history to claim first team All-American status in fences and was also named Eastern College Athletic Conference Fences Rider of the Year. This season alone, she collected 21 victories and eight MOP performances during both events in the Jumping Seat discipline – upping her career totals to 44 wins and 15 MOP's in just three years. Outside of the arena, she was named ECAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Congratulations to @UTM_Equestrian senior Kelby Kane on being named the 2022 Bettye Giles Co-Female Athlete of the Year!
— UT Martin Athletics (@UTMSports) April 20, 2022
🏇First Team All-American
🏇ECAC Fences Rider of the Year
🏇21 Victories and 8 MOPs#UTMmys pic.twitter.com/ZazKENrnlX
Chappell was the defensive backbone of UT Martin's 2021 soccer team, who went 11-6-1 and nabbed the program's sixth Ohio Valley Conference championship in the last decade. The Flushing, Mich. product became only the fourth player in program history to be named OVC Defender of the Year while also earning a spot on the league's first team. She led the Skyhawks with 1,650 minutes played (out of a possible 1,660) and helped UT Martin lead the league in fewest goals allowed (16 in 18 matches). She ends her vaunted collegiate career as the program's all-time leader with 87 matches played.
Congratulations to @UTMartinSoccer graduate defender Kamryn Chappell on being named the 2022 Bettye Giles Co-Female Athlete of the Year!
— UT Martin Athletics (@UTMSports) April 20, 2022
⚽️2021 OVC Defensive Player of the Year
⚽️All-OVC First Team
⚽️1,650 minutes played
⚽️87 career matches played (1st in UTM history)#UTMmys pic.twitter.com/8yKDf9W2k8
Also helping his team claim a league championship was Logan, who guided the Skyhawks to their second OVC title in school history and first-ever playoff victory at the Football Championship Subdivision level. UT Martin went 10-3 overall and was ranked as high as No. 8 nationally thanks in large part to Logan, who was voted to the All-OVC first team after ranking second in the nation in rush yards per carry (7.19) and eighth in total rushing yards (1,121). The Horn Lake, Miss. native ranks third in school history with 2,605 career rushing yards and is the Skyhawks' all-time leader in career yards per rush (6.3).
Congratulations to @UTM_FOOTBALL senior Peyton Logan on being named the 2022 Bob Carroll Male Athlete of the Year!
— UT Martin Athletics (@UTMSports) April 20, 2022
🏈All-OVC First Team
🏈OVC Championship
🏈1,121 Rushing Yards | 7 total TDs
🏈2,605 career rushing yards (3rd in UTM history)#UTMmys pic.twitter.com/ANsNGAv2vH
Clark has been the model of consistency as the two-time All-OVC honoree has played in 209 games and started all but one contest in the last four years. She currently ranks in the top-10 in school history in batting average (.347, second), stolen bases (92, second), hits (208, fifth), triples (eight, sixth), runs scored (123, sixth) and at-bats (599, 10th). Off the diamond, the outfielder from Lafayette, Tenn. has racked up a pair of OVC Medals of Honor for a perfect 4.0 GPA and has found herself on the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll in each of her first four seasons as a Skyhawk.
Congratulations to @UTMSoftball graduate outfielder Paige Clark on earning the 2022 Leadership Award!
— UT Martin Athletics (@UTMSports) April 20, 2022
🥎.347 career batting average (2nd in UTM history)
🥎92 career steals (2nd in UTM history)
🥎2x OVC Medal of Honor recipient (4.0 GPA)#UTMmys pic.twitter.com/lqFiKN6iZa
UT Martin's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee also presented awards tonight. Kayla Carrell (volleyball/beach volleyball) won "Unsung Hero" while soccer's Parker Gelinas was named "New Kid on the Block". Gabi Melby from women's basketball won "Team Clown" while Timeria McCullough was named "Biggest Cheerleader". Claudia Colston (cheer) and Victoria Petersen (rifle) each won the "Call of Duty" award.
Academic award recipients included seniors Logan Alfano-Webb (cheer), Kane (equestrian), Rachel Mills (rifle), Shayne Mallory (rodeo), Sina Albersmeier (tennis), Karen Scanlon (volleyball/beach volleyball), Alex Schell (cross country/track and field), Cody Hogan (rodeo), Brent Borden (cross country/track and field) and Alexis Grandys (cross country/track and field). Graduate student academic honorees included Mizuki Sakurai (tennis), Amelia Campbell (tennis), Takeem Young (football), Clark (softball), Jule Streif (tennis), Chappell (soccer), Will Oglesby (cross country/track and field), Hannah Phillips (beach volleyball) and Darius Simmons (men's basketball).
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