CSR (Christine Hendricks Named Recipient of MIAA's Sheila Wallace Kovalchik Scholar Award)

Calvin Sports Report (Part Two) For June 15 2006,

CHRISTINE HENDRICKS NAMED MIAA'S SHEILA KOVALCHIK SCHOLAR AWARD RECIPIENT
(Press release prepared by MIAA Publicist Tom Renner)

June 15, 2006

MIAA Honors Outstanding Senior Scholar-Athletes

Awards by the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) to
outstanding senior athletes from its member schools during the 2005-06 school
year have been announced by Commissioner David Neilson.

Christine Hendricks of Calvin College has been presented the Sheila Wallace
Kovalchik Women Scholar Award while Travis Sleight of Olivet College has
received the Albert H. Deal Male Scholar-Athlete Award.

The awards recognize senior class athletes who have excelled in academics and
athletics and displayed outstanding leadership qualities. The awards honor
two
former MIAA commissioners, Albert Deal (1971-91) and Sheila Wallace Kovalchik
(1991-2002).

Travis Sleight was a four-year football letterwinner. A running back, he was
an All-MIAA first team honoree as a junior and senior and received ESPN The
Magazine Academic All-America honors in both 2004 and 2005. As a senior, he
was the recipient of the MIAA's Pete Schmidt Scholar-Athlete Award for
excellence on the football field and in the classroom and received the Morley
Fraser Scholar-Athlete Award from the Michigan Chapter of the National
Football Foundation and the College Football Hall of Fame. He holds the
Olivet career scoring record with 51 touchdowns. He majored in health,
physical education, recreation and sport. He is the son of John Sleight of
Delton, Mich.

Christine Hendricks was an All-MIAA honoree in volleyball and track & field.
She lettered four years in both sports. This spring she was crowned the NCAA
Division III champion in the heptathlon with a national record performance.
She was the conference field MVP as both a junior and senior, won the league
javelin crown her sophomore, junior and senior years, and was an NCAA
All-American in the heptathlon for three consecutive years. This past May,
she captured the national title in the heptathlon with an NCAA III
Championships
record 5,012 points. She majored inmathematics and is currently working as an

actuary in Lansing. She is the daughter of Carla and Steve Hendricks of
Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Hendricks was recently named to the ESPN The Mazine Academic All-District
team
 in track and field and is also a three-time recipient of the United States
Track and Field Coaches All-Academic award.

Other nominees for the Kovalchik award were Jamie Fornetti, Albion; Erin
Fralick, Alma; Anneliese Fox, Hope; Christie Zakar, Kalamazoo; Jill Lingbeek,
Olivet; and Kayla Cheesman, Tri-State.

Other nominees for the Deal award were Tony Vennekotter, Adrian; Eric
Johnson,
Albion; Calvin Hilson, Alma; Nate Meckes, Calvin; Greg Immink, Hope; Kyle
Konwinski, Kalamazoo.

Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
Received on Thu Jun 15 07:18:15 2006