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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
1/22/2024 Wes Ferguson Men's Track and Field
1/22/2024 Billy Higgins Wrestling
1/15/2024 Kia Wilson Women's Basketball
1/15/2024 Damiri Lindo Men's Basketball
1/8/2024 Jillian Aschoff Women's Basketball
1/8/2024 Trenton Munoz Wrestling
12/20/2023 Crew Howard Wrestling
12/20/2023 Sean Murphy Men's Basketball
12/11/2023 Bailee Sobczak Women's Basketball
12/11/2023 Brayden Sorensen Men's Track and Field
12/4/2023 Peyton Neff Volleyball
12/4/2023 Dylan Vodicka Wrestling
11/27/2023 Sean Murphy Men's Basketball
11/27/2023 Shiloh McCool Women's Basketball
11/20/2023 Asha Regier Volleyball
11/20/2023 D'Aundre Samuels Men's Basketball
11/13/2023 Shiloh McCool Women's Basketball
11/13/2023 Quillan Felton Football
11/6/2023 TJ Davis Football
11/6/2023 Nick Abdalla Men's Cross Country
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