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Redbird Student-Athletes to Receive Degrees Saturday
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[December 15, 2007]
NORMAL -- At the Illinois State
University Winter Commencement on Saturday, 18 current and former
Illinois State student-athletes, representing 10 different sports,
will receive their undergraduate degrees. The ceremony to honor
1,107 baccalaureate, 174 master's and 54 doctoral degree recipients
will be at Redbird Arena. Of the 18 student-athletes, five competed
for the Redbirds in the fall of 2007.
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 Among those receiving degrees at Saturday's ceremony are men's
basketball players Gregg Alexander, in recreation and park
administration; Greg Dilligard, agriculture; and Roberto Fortes,
university studies; baseball players Luke Baughman, elementary
education; Matt Bolt, management; and Ryan Knox, psychology;
football players Mike Blough, biological sciences; Brandon Joyce,
university studies; Jesse Caesar, university studies; Rafael Rice,
history; Garry Roberts, family and consumer science; and Cameron
Siskowic, exercise science; men's tennis player Tim Link, business
administration; women's soccer player Amanda Lauber, sociology;
volleyball player Manoela Dacunha, international business; softball
player Shannon Nicholson, business teacher education; men's track
middle distance runner Jeremy Doherty, economics; women's track
sprinter Lyn Cox, international business; and women's swimmer Jamie
Haseman, elementary education.
Alexander is 37th on the Redbirds'
all-time scoring list with 1,023 points in his career. He also is
the school's all-time leader in 3-point field goals (224) and is
sixth in 3-point field goal percentage (.411). Dilligard is Illinois
State's all-time leader in blocked shots (143) and has three of the
top 10 single-season block totals.
Baughman was an honorable mention selection to the MVC
Scholar-Athlete team in 2007 and was a nominee for the Doug Collins
Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year award this fall. Bolt received an
honorable mention all-Valley honor in 2006 after leading the
Redbirds in runs scored (43), walks (32) and on-base percentage
(.409).
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Caesar, Joyce, Rice and Roberts all played for the Redbirds in
2007. Caesar was a First-Team All-Gateway selection as the Redbirds
fourth-leading tackler (81), and Rice, the team's top rusher with
966 yards, was named to the second team. Joyce was an All-Gateway
Newcomer team member in 2006, and Siskowic was the Gateway
Conference Defensive Player of the Year and a consensus all-American
in 2006.
Lauber finished her career at Illinois State this fall with 10
points on two goals and six assists. She played in 68 games in her
career and helped the Redbirds to the 2007 Valley regular-season
title.
Nicholson was a Second-Team Easton All-American in 2007 and was
named the Female Athlete of the Year and the Linda Herman Female
Student-Athlete of the Year at Illinois State in the fall.
Haseman recorded top-five times for the Redbirds in all freestyle
events in 2006-07 and received the Most Improved and Rebecca Wade
(given to the swimmer who exhibits the all-around characteristics of
a student-athlete) awards.
[Text from file received from
Jimmy Knodel,
assistant media relations director,
Illinois
State University]
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