https://mvnucougars.com Each week an athlete is selected as the Mazza's Champion of Character Athlete of the Week. The selected athlete finihsed the week as a key piece to his or her team's success and also displayed one or more of the core values that the NAIA embraces (Integrity, Respect, Responsibility, Sportsmanship, and Servant Leadership). en-us https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Staffan_AOW Staffan hit three home runs and had eight RBI for the Lady Cougars during the week. Staffan also batted a red-hot .556 at the plate. Mon, 27 Feb 2023 05:00:00 GMT https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Staffan_AOW https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Rohwer_AOTW Rohwer qualified for outdoor nationals at the John Homon Open on Saturday, April 11 in the 800m with a NAIA B Standard time of 1:51.77. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Rohwer_AOTW https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Kiera_Mayer_copy Mayer hit .476 during the week. Mayer had two home runs and 8 RBI for the Lady Cougars. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Kiera_Mayer_copy https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Makenna_Langford Langford hit the NAIA B Standard with a time of 1:02.82 in the 400m hurdles at Dension on Saturday, March 28. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Makenna_Langford https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Tyler_Shipley Shipley competed in the 2026 NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships in Gainesville, Florida on March 7. Shipley finished as the national runner-up in pole vault, placing second with a mark of 4.95m. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Tyler_Shipley https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Peyton_Heiss_copy Heiss recorded a triple double of 14 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists in MVNU's 91-83 upset win over No. 11 Bethel. The triple double was the first by an MVNU MBB player since 2017. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Peyton_Heiss_copy https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Evan_Hodkinson Hodkinson hit the NAIA B Standard in the 800m at the Ashland Invitational and set a school record with a time of 1:52.45. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Evan_Hodkinson https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Peyton_Heiss Scored a career-high 32 points against Goshen College and averaged a team-best 24 points and nine rebounds for MVNU over the week. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Peyton_Heiss https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Evelyn_Brown Brown wrapped up a tremendous freshman season with strong performances in the NAIA Women's Volleyball National Championship in Sioux City, Iowa. Brown finishes her freshman year with a program record hitting percentage of .417%. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Evelyn_Brown https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Isaiah_Brown Isaiah Brown averaged 21 points per game on 65% shooting from the floor in MVNU's two wins during the week. Brown scored a career-high 29 points agaisnt UNOH. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Isaiah_Brown https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Will_Baker Baker placed fourth at the Crossroads League Championships, earning All-League honors. The Freshman also broke his own school record with his time of 24:29.20. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Will_Baker https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Faith_Maloney_copy Surpassed 1,000 career kills last week in the team's match against Marian. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Faith_Maloney_copy https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Reese_Willoughby Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 GMT https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Reese_Willoughby https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Tammy_Liplin https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Tammy_Liplin https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Nathan_Fitzpatrick Led MVNU Men's Tennis to its first season opening win in program history by sweeping his singles matchup against Shawnee State. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Nathan_Fitzpatrick https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Hannah_Miller Miller had two shutouts and surpassed 300 career saves for MVNU women's soccer in it's games against Cleary and WVU Tech last week. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Hannah_Miller https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Mason_Hendrickson Hendrickson hit the NAIA A Standard in the steeplechase at Baldwin Wallace over the weekend with a time of 9:14.38. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Mason_Hendrickson https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jared_Hurlburt Hurlburt tossed 9 scoreless innings in MVNU baseball's 1-0 win over IWU. Hurlburt allowed no runs and had 11 strikeouts for MVNU on the day. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jared_Hurlburt https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Brady_Lester Lester led MVNU with a .565 batting average and had 4 home runs to go with 17 RBI during the week. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Brady_Lester https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Lyssi_Snouffer_copy Placed fifth in the high jump at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championships and earned All-American status with a jump of 1.71m. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Lyssi_Snouffer_copy https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Tyler_Dickerson Tyler Dickerson scored his 100th career point over the weekend in the team's 13-3 win over Heidelberg University. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Tyler_Dickerson https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Kenzie_Willoughby Willoughby secured a top-five finish at the Crossroads League Bowling Tournament 4 for MVNU with an average of 174. The freshman earned a spot on the All-Tournament Team for her efforts. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Kenzie_Willoughby https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jaden_Haldeman_copy Haldeman hit the NAIA B Standard in the 60m hurdles at the Ashland Invitational with a time of 8.14 seconds. Haldeman also helped the men's 4x400m relay team hit the B Standard with a time of 3:18.72. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jaden_Haldeman_copy https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Teresa_Maggio Maggio averaged 27 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, and 3 steals per game in MVNU's two wins over Ohio Christian and Bethel University. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Teresa_Maggio https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Conrad Conrad poured in a career-high 29 points in the 85-78 win over the Tigers. The grad-senior from Cordon, Indiana shot 8-14 from the floor and was a red-hot 5-6 from deep. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Conrad https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jaelyn_Tang Tang had a career-high 27 digs in MVNU's 4 set victory over Taylor on Saturday, October 12 and averaged 6.14 digs per set for MVNU during the week. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jaelyn_Tang https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Ellyn_Coe Coe placed 16th out of 176 runners at the OWU XC Invite and ran a new PR time of 23:00.2. Coe helped lead the Lady Cougars to a new program record for total team time (1:57:26). https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Ellyn_Coe https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Mary_Weisburn Weisburn secured a top 3 finish at the OCU Fall Invite on September 16-17 for MVNU. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Mary_Weisburn https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Aaron_Jolly Jolly scored the game tying goal against No.9 Indiana Tech in the team's 1-1 draw on Saturday, August 31. Jolly scored both of MVNU's goals during the week. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Aaron_Jolly https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jaden_Haldeman Haldeman earned the Conference Crown in the 110m hurdles and the 400m hurdles at the Crossroads League Outdoor Championships on May 2-3. https://mvnucougars.com/aotw/Jaden_Haldeman