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SPORTSHORTS
SPORTSHORTS Highlights from the best of Royal athletics
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.
academic 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 14 th Bethel student-athlete to receive the honor since its inception in 2013.
ALL-AMERICAN
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%.
WINNING COMBINATION
Senior biokinetics major Taite Anderson is selected MIAC MVP, and Head Women’s Basketball Coach Jon Herbrechstmeyer is chosen MIAC Coach of the Year.
photo by Teresa Brubaker
REPEAT SHOWING
photo by Nathan Klok ’17 Men’s basketball makes its 25 th all-time appearance in the MIAC playoffs and its ninth straight trip to the postseason, one of only two MIAC teams to appear in 19 of the last 20 MIAC playoffs.
FASTFINISH Women’s track & field posts a secondplace finish at the MIAC Indoor Championships, the highest finish in program history. Both the 4x200m relay and the 4x400m relay take home first place. Freshman Kelsie Sealock wins the 60m hurdles in 8.78 seconds, setting a school record with the sixth-best time in Division III this year. Senior captain Delia Labatt earns her third straight indoor 400m title.
SILENT SPRING
Spring sports are suspended nationwide in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
We acknowledge the loss of Bethel’s spring sports season, and honor the hard work and dedication of the student-athletes who missed spring competition. Yet no one knows how to face adversity with character and strength better than our student-athletes. Together...
