The WIAC Scholar-Athlete Award is presented to the most outstanding senior from each conference sport during the year who exhibits the greatest combination of performance and achievement in academics, athletics and leadership. The Women's Scholar-Athlete Award was renamed the Judy Kruckman Scholar-Athlete Award effective with the 1998-99 season.
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Gillian McDonaldÂ
2014
New Brighton, Minn.
Irondale High School
Gillian McDonald was named the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) golf Judy Kruckman Scholar-Athlete Award winner for the 2014 season.
McDonald has a 3.983 cumulative grade point average and is majoring in applied physics and minoring in math.
She has been a member of the Falcon golf and hockey teams for three seasons.
McDonald has been named to the WIAC Scholastic Honor rolls after the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years. She has been named to the UWRF Dean's List four times and is a Falcon Scholar. During her years at UWRF she has earned a Minnesota Junior PGA, physics department and Earl G. Albert Memorial academic scholarships.
She has been a member of the UWRF Student Athlete Athletic Committee for three years and a member of the Society of Physics Students. She has been a tutor for the UWRF physics department and is a member of the Physics National Honor Society.
After the 2012 golf season she was named to the first All-WIAC team and earned second team honors after the 2013 season. In 2013 she was named the UWRF Athletics Newcomer of the Year.
This year McDonald was the team's No 1 golfer in every meet. At the WIAC Tournament last weekend she finished in a tie for 15th place with a three-day total of 261.Â
McDonald holds the team's best two-day score and second and third best single round scores in UWRF history.
She has done volunteer work at the Hennepin County Fix-It Clinics and has been a volunteer coach with the Irondale girl's hockey association and with the River Falls Youth Hockey Association as a goalie coach.
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Ellen Berndt
2004
Rice Lake, Wis.
Rice Lake High School
Ellen Berndt was named the 2004 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Judy Kruckman women's golf Scholar-Athlete.
Berndt has been with the women's golf program since it began in 2002 and has been earning awards ever since. Last year Berndt was named the team's Most Valuable Player and was chosen as the team captain in 2004. In 2003 she was named to the All-WIAC team and was nominated for the WIAC Player of the Week award three times.
During this year's WIAC Championships, held Oct. 9-10 at the par 73 Stevens Point Country Club, she finished the first round of play in first place and ended the tournament in second. She shot 82-80 for a two-day total of 162, two strokes from first place.
Her hard work ethic stretches beyond athletics - she has maintained a 3.906 grade point average and has received a number of academic awards. She is majoring in accounting. She earned a spot on the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll in 2002 and 2003 and was named to the Dean's List in the spring of 2004. She earned Junior Honors in 2003-04. She is the first Falcon golfer to win the award.
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