Greensboro, NC(02/22/00) —Three of Guilford College’s top student-athletes received the 2000 Nereus C. English Athletic Leadership Award at a banquet Tuesday evening on Guilford’s campus. This year’s recipients are: senior baseball player Chad Coward (Siler City, NC/Jordan-Matthews), senior football player Jimmy Lamour (Hollywood, FL/Miramar) and junior women's basketball player Arden Miller (Landenberg, PA/Sanford School (DE)). The trio raises the number of English Award recipients in 19 years to 141.

Named for one of the college’s most loyal alumni, the annual English Award is the school’s highest honor for athletic ability and leadership. Guilford first presented the prize in 1977 to the student-athletes who reached the highest ideals of athletic accomplishment, leadership and academic achievement. Jim English, of Thomasville, NC, made the presentations on behalf of the English family at this year’s banquet.

Coward started his fourth season with the baseball team this past weekend. He has been one of the Quakers' top starting pitchers in each of his first three years and owns a 14-18 career record. A 6-3, 185-pound right-hander, the senior ranks third among Guilford's career strikeout leaders with 220 in 47 appearances. He averaged 10.39 strikeouts per nine innings last season, the second-highest figure in school history. Coward went 7-6 with a team-low 3.78 earned run average as a sophomore and helped the Quakers to the final of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Tournament. He played in the New England Collegiate Baseball League in each of the past two summers and was named the league's top pitcher in 1999. A dean's list business management major with an accounting minor, Coward is the son of Brenda and Jimmy Coward.

A three-time All-ODAC cornerback, Lamour concluded a stellar football career by competing in the 1999 American Football Coaches Association Aztec Bowl in Mexico City last December. He was one of 40 Division III seniors from around the country picked to compete against a Mexican national team and the Quakers' first Aztec Bowl honoree. Lamour made a career-high 52 tackles (25 solo) in his senior season and ranked 20th among Division III kickoff return leaders with a 26.3 yards per return average in 16 attempts. A 1999 second team All-South pick, Lamour finished his career with 143 tackles and 11 interceptions for a Guilford-record 240 yards and one touchdown. He represented the Quakers on the first team All-ODAC squad as a sophomore, and again as a senior. Lamour earned second team all-conference laurels in 1998 after ranking third among the league's interceptions and kickoff return leaders. He received Guilford's Best Undergraduate Male Student-Athlete Award for the 1998-99 school year. Lamour is a dean's list management major and the son of Jean and Paula Lamour.

Miller is in the midst of her third and finest season with the Quakers' women's basketball team. Behind her team-leading 21.0 points and 11.1 rebounds per game, Guilford ended the regular season with an 18-6 overall record and second-place finish in the ODAC standings. The 5-10 swing player ranks among the NCAA Division III leaders in scoring, rebounding and three-point field goal percentage. She set Guilford records for single-game three-pointers (7), three-point field goal percentage (.875) and free throws (15) this year and ranks 11th on the Quakers' career scoring list with 936 points. Miller picked up the ODAC's Player of the Week Award for the week ending February 13 after averaging 26 points and 16 boards in three games. She scored a career-high 37 points in one of those contests and pulled down a personal-best 18 rebounds two days later. A team captain, Miller has 15 double-doubles this season, the most by a Guilford player since 1993-94. An officer in Guilford's Student Trainers Club, Miller is one of 44 recipients of a Charles Dana Scholarship, given to rising juniors and seniors for outstanding character, leadership and scholarship. She is a dean's list sports medicine major and the daughter of Allison and Joseph Miller.