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05-05-2008, 10:45 AM
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PERRY & Metcalf SHARE MOST VALUABLE AWARD
The 2008 Iowa Wrestling Awards Banquet was held in Iowa City on Sunday, May 4th. Over 400 Hawkeye fans, friends, and family listened as the Head Hawk Tom Brands congratulated his team for this year's accomplishements and then challenged them to take it to the next level as they prepare for next season.
Sophomore Brent Metcalf and Senior Mark Perry shared the Mike Howard award for the team's Most Valuable wrestler, and both were also recognized and awarded for earning individual national titles. Perry also earned the award for Most Pins in the 2007-2008 season. Other awards and recipients were:
Most Improved Award
Matt Fields
All-American Award Charlie Falck Joey Slaton Jay Borschel
Phillip Keddy
Matt Fields
Coaches Appreciation Award
Daniel Dennis
Rick Loera
J. Donald McPike, Sr. Award (Highest G.P.A.)
Matt Fields
Mike J. McGivern Award (Most Courageous) Chad Beatty
I was surprised that Matt Fields got most improved over Phil Keddy. Maybe its just a senior thing. 
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05-05-2008, 11:58 AM
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Guess I am a little surprised to see most improved go to Fields over Keddy.
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05-05-2008, 12:11 PM
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That's one party I wouldn't recommend crashing.
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05-05-2008, 05:05 PM
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I think you could make a case for Keddy being most improved in the entire country, let alone on his own team. I was little surprised to see Fields get the other award too. If someone had asked me to guess who on Iowa's team has the highest GPA, Fields would not have been high on my list. |
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05-05-2008, 05:13 PM
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He was the Senior with the highest GPA. Iowa had 6 Academic all Big Ten.
Matt Ballweg, Iowa So. Pre-Business Waverly, Iowa Jay Borschel, Iowa Jr. Biology Marion, Iowa
Matt Fields, Iowa Sr. Health & Sports Studies Lowden, Iowa Dan LeClere, Iowa Jr. Biology Coggan, Iowa
TH Leet, Iowa Jr. Marketing Atlanta, Ga. Brent Metcalf, Iowa Jr. Sociology Davison, Mich.
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05-05-2008, 05:29 PM
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I wonder what was for dinner? ;-)
Mark
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05-06-2008, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by ideamark  I wonder what was for dinner? ;-)
Mark | Beef? |
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05-06-2008, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by caveman.lawyer I think you could make a case for Keddy being most improved in the entire country, let alone on his own team. I was little surprised to see Fields get the other award too. If someone had asked me to guess who on Iowa's team has the highest GPA, Fields would not have been high on my list. | Keddy was given the award and then he turned it down because he told Coach Brands he didn't win the National championship, he didn't deserve the Most Improved Award. The award was then given to Fields.
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05-06-2008, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiltz He was the Senior with the highest GPA. Iowa had 6 Academic all Big Ten.
Matt Ballweg, Iowa So. Pre-Business Waverly, Iowa
Jay Borschel, Iowa Jr. Biology Marion, Iowa
Matt Fields, Iowa Sr. Health & Sports Studies Lowden, Iowa
Dan LeClere, Iowa Jr. Biology Coggan, Iowa
TH Leet, Iowa Jr. Marketing Atlanta, Ga.
Brent Metcalf, Iowa Jr. Sociology Davison, Mich. | When did Metcalf change majors? Wasn't the quality of the engineering school part of his criteria (other than Brands of course) for deciding on VT/Iowa? |
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05-06-2008, 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by OldShamrock When did Metcalf change majors? Wasn't the quality of the engineering school part of his criteria (other than Brands of course) for deciding on VT/Iowa? | I was wondering the same thing. I'm kinda not surprised though, an engineering curriculum is incredibly demanding and well couple that with a very very demanding sport and one of them has to go.
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