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Athlete Awards

Athletes of the Week

Blake Cover

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    4/26/2010
  • Sport
    Baseball
  • Bio
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Cover had a pretty good week ...

* On Monday, he was named UNK's Male Senior Student-Athlete of the Year
* On Tuesday, his sixth inning homer at NW Missouri State marked his 180th run scored, breaking the school record (179, Mike Radcliff)
* On Wednesday, he was named the RMAC Academic Player of the Year (3.84 GPA in Business Administration)
* On Sunday, he became UNK's all-time leader in hits with a single to right field. The previous record was held by Travis Kerkman (252).

Cover finished the week batting .444, pushing his hit streak to 22 straight games. Finally, UNK has won nine in a row and 21 of its last 27 games.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
10/30/2017 Darrien Daniels Football
10/23/2017 Molly Dibben Women's Cross Country
10/23/2017 Trevor Wiegert Men's Cross Country
10/16/2017 Anna Squiers Volleyball
10/16/2017 Samantha Crawford Women's Golf
10/9/2017 Tara Ziegelbein Volleyball
10/9/2017 Riley Williams Men's Golf
10/2/2017 Thomas Russell Football
10/2/2017 Samantha Crawford Women's Golf
9/25/2017 Steve Worthing Football
9/25/2017 Tara Ziegelbein Volleyball
9/18/2017 Sal Silvio Football
9/18/2017 Tara Ziegelbein Volleyball
9/11/2017 Tara Ziegelbein Volleyball
9/11/2017 Lindsey Smith Volleyball
9/4/2017 Tye Spies Football
9/4/2017 Ali Hirschman Women's Soccer
8/24/2017 Jay Cottam Men's Golf
8/24/2017 Breanna Redl Women's Golf
5/15/2017 Cole Wellnitz Men's Track and Field
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