Mount’s Spence Named Men’s HCAC Player of the Month
March 5, 2008
GREENWOOD, IN – Mount St. Joseph’s Elliott Spence (Cincinnati, Ohio/Elder) has been named February’s Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Men’s Player of the Month. The junior wrestler led the Lions to a HCAC Wrestling Championship and finished a perfect 12-0 during the month in his 149-pound weight class.
The junior wrestler finished 12-0 during the month of February and earned first place honors in his 149-pound weight class in all four invitationals he wrestled in. Spence was named All-HCAC and earned HCAC Wrestler of the Year honors for his efforts at the HCAC Tournament and finished a perfect 3-0 to win his class at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional.
Spence has yet to lose to a Division III opponent this season and will be going for a National Championship at the NCAA Division III national meet in Cedar Rapids, Iowa March 7-8.
He will enter the National Championship ranked third in the country at the 149-pound division and will look for his third straight All-American honor.
Spence is the second Mount athlete to be named Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Month and the first male athlete from MSJ to earn the honor. He is also the second wrestler to ever receive the award.
The HCAC Player of the Month award is in its third year of existence. The award is voted on by the sports information directors of each member institution.
2007-08 HCAC Players of the Month (Men) |
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September |
Luke Dillon, Defiance (Football) |
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October |
Luke Dillon, Defiance (Football) |
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November |
Sean Hudson, Anderson (Cross Country) |
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December |
Anthony Pettaway, Defiance (Basketball) |
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January |
C.J. Johnson, Defiance (Basketball) |
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February |
Elliott Spence, Mount St. Joseph (Wrestling) |
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