Wednesday, July 26, 2006
The Patriot League has a new honor, the Sportsmanship Awards, which will be presented annually to one male and one female athlete. The inaugural winners were announced yesterday>, with Lehigh's Joe Knight winning on the male side.

Navy's Meredith Addington, also a basketball player, won the women's honor.

The award is open to athletes in all sports, apparently even those not played under the league umbrella. Each school is allowed to nominate candidates, but only Lehigh, Lafayette and Navy actually did.

There were only two male athletes nominated. Knight was chosen over Lafayette fencer Matthew Ingraham.

The other female nominees were Lisa Fung Kee Fung (Lafayette tennis), Caitlin Carney (Lehigh lacrosse) and Julie Reynolds (Navy soccer).