Greensboro, NC (04-28-99) -- Guilford College recognized its top student athletes Wednesday at its annual athletic awards banquet held in Guilford's Founders Hall. Junior football player Aaron Denton (Bunn, NC/Bunn) received two of the eight departmental prizes, the Quaker Club Male Student-Athlete Award and the Richard Joyce Sportsmanship Award. The Quaker Club-sponsored event honored the top players from each of Guilford's 12 teams, plus the eight departmental award winners.

Denton, who also won the Joyce Award in 1998, started six games at wide receiver for Guilford's football team before a season-ending knee injury sidelined him for the Quakers' remaining four contests. The injury also kept him off the basketball court where he lettered as a reserve guard in 1997-98. However, he remained with the team as an assistant to head coach Jack Jensen. A member of the Guilford College Scholarship Society, Denton received the 1999 Fred I. Courtney Management Award and one of 44 Charles A. Dana Scholarships. He serves as a college marshal, residence hall advisor and president of Guilford's chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Football standout David Heggie (Apex, NC/Apex) and two-sport star Alison Schott (Lyons, NY/Lyons) earned the Best Senior Athlete awards. A running back and punter, Heggie earned second team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) and team Most Valuable Offensive Player honors in 1998 after leading Guilford's rushers with 512 yards and two touchdowns on 109 carries. He battled injuries throughout the season, but ran for a school-record 265 yards in the Quakers' October 17 ODAC win over Bridgewater. The performance earned Heggie his sixth career ODAC Offensive Player of the Week Award and ranked ninth among 1998 Division III single-game rushing totals. He leaves as Guilford's second all-time leading rusher with 3,242 yards and a school-best 18 rushing touchdowns.

Schott graduates with four Guilford soccer records, including career goals (31) and points (83), and also lettered four seasons with the basketball team. She became the Quakers' initial first team All-ODAC soccer selection as a junior and repeated the honor this past season. A 1999 recipient of Guilford's English Athletic Leadership Award, Schott averaged 10.1 points per game as a guard on the Quakers' 1998-99 basketball team and concluded her hoops career with 749 points. She ranks among Guilford's career leaders in assists (6th), field goal percentage (9th), free throws (9th) and steals (10th).

Junior football player Jimmy Lamour (Hollywood, FL/Miramar) and freshman soccer/basketball player Amy Evans (New Bern, NC/New Bern) received the Best Undergraduate Athlete Awards. Lamour, a cornerback, earned All-ODAC honors for the second straight year with a second team selection in 1998. He led the Quakers with four interceptions last season and has 11 thefts in his career, six shy of Guilford's career record. Lamour made a career-high 46 tackles in 1998 and was named the ODAC's Defensive Player of Week after recording five tackles and two takeaways in a conference win over Washington and Lee.

Evans tied Schott's single-season goals record with 18 tallies as a rookie and also led Guilford with 39 points. The second team all-league forward led the ODAC in goals and ranked second in points and goals per game. She received the soccer team's Best Team Player Award as well as the basketball unit's Best Defensive Player prize. On the hardcourt, the 5-8 forward averaged 7.4 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. Evans led the Quakers with 70 steals and ranked among the ODAC leaders in steals (4th) and rebounds (10th) per contest.

Senior two-sport participant Nel Andrews (Burlington, VT/Northfield-Mt. Hermon (MA)) received the Quaker Club's Ideal Female Student-Athlete Award. She started three seasons in the midfield and in the back with Guilford's soccer team and also started three years with Guilford's lacrosse team. She and Schott helped the Quakers to 32 soccer wins in their four seasons, more than any other senior class in school history. Andrews recently completed her best of three seasons with the lacrosse team by scoring a career-high 14 goals and one assist to finish fourth among the team's points leaders. An accomplished history major, she has received Guilford's Newlin History Award and the Daughters of the American Colonists History Prize in each of the last two years.

Senior Jerry Inman (Asheboro, NC/Eastern Randolph) took home the George Wynne Most Improved Athlete Award after batting a career-high .337 with three home runs and 30 runs batted in. Inman, an infielder who took a year off from the baseball team in 1998, entered the season with a .245 career batting average in 30 career games. He enjoyed his finest season as a senior where he started all 36 contests at second base or shortstop and ranked among the ODAC leaders in batting average, runs batted in and slugging percentage for most of the year. Inman had 10 multi-hit games and six contests with two or more runs batted in.

In addition to honoring the eight departmental award winners, the banquet recognized the following individual team award winners:

Baseball

Most Valuable Player (MVP)- Andy Reed (Sr., Charlotte, NC/Myers Park)

McBane Hitting Award - Andy Reed

Most Valuable Pitcher - Jeff Joyce (Sr., Reidsville, NC/Rockingham County)

Men’s Basketball

MVP - Jon Evans (So., Mooresville, NC/Mooresville)

Best Defensive Player - Jaron Randall (So., Trenton, NJ/Princeton Day School)

Women’s Basketball

Best Team Player - Arden Miller (So., Landenberg, PA/Sanford School (DE))

Best Defensive Player - Amy Evans (Fr., New Bern, NC/New Bern)

Most Improved Player - Melissa Urann (Fr., Plymouth, MA/Falmouth Academy)

Football

Offensive MVP - David Heggie (Sr., Apex, NC/Apex)

Defensive MVP - Luke Martin (Jr., Griffithsville, WV/Duval)

Golden Helmet Award - Luke Martin ((Jr., Griffithsville, WV/Duval)

Golf

MVP - Andrew Eversole (Fr., Greensboro, NC/Northwest Guilford)

Men’s Lacrosse

MVP - Fran Randall (Sr., Homer, NY/Homer)

Most Improved Player - Nate Goodman (Fr., Port Ewen, NY/Kingston)

Women’s Lacrosse

Best Team Player - Becki Davis (Sr., Alexandria, VA/Charles E. Smith)

Most Improved Player - Kirsten Dexter (Fr., Highland, MD/River Hill)

Men’s Soccer

MVP - Scott Quick (Sr., Cordova, TN/Germantown)

Most Improved Player - Kwame Darko (Fr., Providence, RI/Sandy Spring Friends (MD))

Women’s Soccer

Best Team Player - Amy Evans (Fr., New Bern, NC/New Bern)

Most Improved Player - Abbey Weiner (So., Kings Park, NY/Kings Park)

Volleyball

Best Offensive Player - Susie Browder (Jr., Winston-Salem, NC/Mount Tabor)

Best Defensive Player - Jenn Jankowski (Sr., Bethlehem, CT/Westover School)

Most Improved Player - Katy Pomeroy-Carter (Columbia, MD/Sandy Springs Friends)

Men’s Tennis

MVP - Dan Drossman (Sr., Chapel Hill, NC/Chapel Hill)

Most Improved Player - Ben Many (So., Birmingham, AL/Pomfret School (CT))

Women’s Tennis

Coach’s Award - Beth Holcomb (Jr., Beverly, MA/Beverly)