One of the first stories we stumbled upon this morning was a , where Matt Fannin was the headliner. scooping up two of the top honors handed out by the Middies.
We were not going to bother linking to it, since team banquets and awards rarely interest us. But then we found the , and there was an award there that we could not pass mentioning, so we decided, this year, we will link to banquet releases when we stumble upon them.
What was it about Lehigh's banquet that we could not pass up? Was it Jose Olivero winning Athlete of the Year ahead of senior Joe Knight? Or maybe the Sixth Man award given to the LEHIGH guys, the six students who show up at almost every game sans shirt, spelling Lehigh with brown letters painted on their chest.
That one was interesting in that we did find it telling that the Mountain Hawks had no player worthy of the honor. Or at least not more worthy than the guys who most nights make up about half of the student attendance in Stabler (not counting cheerleaders and pep band).
No, here is the one that made us just have to link:
Senior Joe Knight was named the Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The Scholar-Athlete award goes to the student-athlete who in the eyes of his/her teammates exemplifies the ideal of the scholar-athlete. Knight earned a 3.11 grade point average in the fall 2005 semester, while working through adversity on and off the court . . .
We can almost see the T-shirt now: "My school's administrators screwed up and cost me half my senior season and all I got was this lousy trophy."