SPORTSHORTS
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photo by Carl Schmuland
Highlights from the best of Royal athletics
ALL-AMERICAN Women’s basketball wins MIAC regular season and tournament championships, capping a historic 26-2 season and hosting NCAA tournament first and second rounds for the first time ever.
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EXCELLENCE
Dawson Brown ’19 (football) and Tina (Hoppe) Dalki ’18 (volleyball) are Bethel’s 14th and 15th recipients of a prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically. Sophomore Megan Boegel is named a women’s basketball Elite 22 winner, awarded to the studentathlete with the highest GPA who meets high, sport-specific athletic requirements. A social work major with 3.98 GPA, she’s the 14th Bethel student-athlete to receive the honor since its inception in 2013. Follow the Royals:
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Senior Taite Anderson becomes the first-ever First-Team AllAmerican in program history after selection by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). She’s also named to D3hoops.com All-America Second Team, the first player in program history to earn this honor, as well as First Team CoSIDA Academic All-American and MIAC Player of the Year. She’s the Royals’ second alltime leading scorer, set the single-season scoring mark with 554 points, and ranked fifth nationally in field goal percentage with a program single-season record 62.8%.
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