Greensboro, NC (2/23/99) -- Three of Guilford College’s top student-athletes received the 1999 Nereus C. English Athletic Leadership Award at a banquet Tuesday evening on Guilford’s campus. This year’s recipients are: junior baseball player Kevin Moore (Colfax, NC/Southwest Guilford), senior golfer Bo Reitz (Wake Forest, NC/Friendship Academy), and senior soccer/basketball player Alison Schott (Lyons, NY/Lyons). The trio raises the number of English Award recipients in 18 years to 138.

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. Nereus C. English III, of High Point, NC, made the presentations on behalf of the English family at this year’s banquet.

Moore is off to a solid start in his third season as a starter for Coach Gene Baker's baseball team. Through the first five games of the season, he was hitting .389 with a team-high three home runs and six runs batted in. The third baseman/outfielder started the year with a .332 career batting average, 20 home runs and 82 RBI. He earned honorable mention All-South recognition from the American Baseball Coaches Association and first team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) honors as a sophomore. Moore also received Guilford's 1998 Best Undergraduate Male Student-Athlete Award and the baseball team's Most Valuable Player prize. He holds the Guilford single-season doubles record (16, 1998) and ranks among the Quakers' career leaders in doubles (25) and home runs. The recipient of Guilford's 1997 Pancoast Mathematics Scholarship, Moore is a math and sport management double major and earned 1998 GTE College Academic All-District recognition. He is the son of Kevin and Kim Moore.

Guilford's ninth two-time golf All-American, Reitz enters the spring portion of his senior season as one of the top returning Division III golfers in the nation. He repeated as a second team All-America honoree in 1998 after an 11th-place 292 over the four rounds of the NCAA Championship Tournament. He placed seventh at the 1997 tournament with a 303 and was one of four competitors to shoot under par in two of the four rounds. A two-time All-ODAC pick, Reitz starts the spring with a 76.6 career stroke average through 62 rounds. He has three career medalist finishes, including a first-place performance at last year's ODAC Championships which earned ODAC Player of the Year honors and helped Coach Jack Jensen's club to the league title. His career-low round of 68 ranks third in school history. Reitz majors in sport management and is the son of former PGA Tour member Ron Reitz and his wife, Carolyn.

Schott has made significant contributions to Guilford's soccer and basketball programs in each of her four seasons with the team. On the soccer field, she started four years in the midfield and set four school scoring records, including career goals (31) and points (83). She became Guilford's initial first team All-ODAC women's soccer player in 1997 and duplicated the feat in 1998 to become the Quakers' first two-time first team all-league selection. A three-year basketball starter, Schott has helped Coach Barb Bausch's club to a 65-37 record and four ODAC Tournament berths. She has over 700 career points and stands among the school's leaders in career assists, steals and free throws. Schott received Guilford's Most Improved Athlete and Best Female Undergraduate Awards in 1998 and is the fourth women's basketball player in three years to receive the English Award. An accounting major, she is the daughter of Dean and Suzanne Schott.

A native of Thomasville, NC, Nereus C. English graduated from Guilford in 1926, but maintained close contact with the college after graduation. His loyalty and genuine interest in its students led to the establishment of the English Endowment Fund and the Nereus C. and Mae Martin English Scholarship Fund in 1965. With his brother, the late T.R. English, he made possible the English Hall dormitory in 1957. In 1962, Nereus English received the Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Guilford College Alumni Association.