May 4, 2015
Riley, Rabenold earn Sportsman, Sportswoman of Year
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Grove City College has selected senior
men’s tennis player Peter Riley (Woodbury, Pa./Northern Bedford) and junior
women’s cross country/track and field performer Emily Rabenold (Allison Park,
Pa./Hampton) as its Omicron Delta Kappa Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year,
respectively, for the 2014-15 academic year.
Riley and Rabenold received their awards Saturday morning
at Honors Convocation in Harbison Chapel.
Riley earned Presidents’
Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors for the third time in his career
April 25 at the conference championships in Erie, Pa. Riley won conference
titles at first singles and first doubles while helping Grove City earn its 25th
consecutive conference title.
He also earned the league’s Player of the Year award in
2012 and 2014 after winning the conference’s No. 1 singles title in those
seasons. He also captured conference titles at first doubles in 2012 and 2014.
This year, Riley owns a 10-3 record at first singles and
a 10-3 mark in the No. 1 doubles slot. For his career, he is 44-10 in singles
play and 48-16 in doubles action.
An English/French double major, Riley earned CoSIDA
Academic All-District recognition from the region’s sports information directors
in 2014. He has again been nominated for the Academic All-District program this
year. Riley has earned Dean’s List honors as well as placement on the
conference’s Academic Honor Roll. He has also received the College’s “Scholar
Athlete” award.
Rabenold is a three-year
letterwinner in track and field and a two-year cross country letterwinner. In
November, she became the third NCAA Division III All-American in program history
by placing 28th at the NCAA Championships in Mason, Ohio.
She is a two-time conference Most Valuable Performer in
cross country and also earned All-Mideast Region recognition in both 2013 and
2014.
Rabenold recently repeated as the conference’s Most
Valuable Performer in women’s outdoor track and field after recording three
individual victories April 24-25 at the Presidents’ Athletic Conference
Championships. She won the steeplechase, the 5,000 and the 10,000 in helping
Grove City to its second straight conference title.
Last year, Rabenold placed 15th
in the steeplechase at the NCAA Division III Championships in Delaware, Ohio.
In February, Rabenold earned indoor track and field MVP
honors at the inaugural indoor conference championships in Youngstown, Ohio. She
won the mile and 5000, helping Grove City win the team title. Rabenold owns the
school outdoor track record in the steeplechase and the 10,000 meters. She also
holds indoor records in the mile, the 3,000 and the 5,000.
Rabenold is majoring in biology. She earned CoSIDA
Academic All-District recognition in 2014 and has been named to the Dean’s List
and the conference’s Academic Honor Roll.
Rabenold is just the second junior to earn Sportswoman of
the Year. Three years ago, then-junior Angela Palumbo received Sportswoman of
the Year honors.
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