2019 aCATemy Awards -Breakthrough Performance
Breakthrough Performance Award Nominees
Samantha Armas, Women's Tennis
"Coming off last year being in and out of the lineup, Sam has had a tremendous year securing her spot in both singles and doubles. She has the second best record on the team with a 13-4 singles record and a 10-8 doubles record. Sam has been the rock for us this entire year and has come through for the team in many occasions. Against App. State she had match points against her, served an ace to stay in the match and then went on to clinch the match for us to gain a 4-3 win as a team. Against UNCA she clinched the doubles for us with a backhand poach winner on match point which took huge guts! She was 1 of only 2 players to win her singles matches against Winthrop, College of Charleston, and ECU all of who are nationally ranked. Against a strong A-10 Richmond team, with the team score at 3-3 and the last match on, down 2 match points Sam went all out and hit 2 winners in 2 consecutive points to stay in the match and then won the third set tiebreak to clinch the match for us as a team with a 4-3 decision."
Hoke Carlton, Golf
-Has improved his scoring average by 4 shots from last season.
-Named Atlantic 10 Golfer of the Week after finishing 3rd out of 120 at the Furman Invitational.
Hunter Costa, Wrestling
-Entered the SoCon Championship as the #6 seed and won a thrilling overtime victory over the #3 seed from Chattanooga.
-" It was without question the biggest victory of his career and a breakthrough performance that he had been searching for."
Sarah Donovan, Women's Basketball
-Earned the Atlantic 10 Most Improved Player Award and named 2nd Team All All-A10
-Increased her production in every statistical category, almost averaging a double-double (12.9 points, 9.2 rebounds)
Football Team
-Improved from 2-9 to 6-5
-Secured the first winning season since 2007, collecting 3 conference wins (the most since 2010).
Delaney Guhman, Lacrosse
-Prior to 2019, had only played in nine games with only two starts.
-As a junior, she has started 15 games, was named an A-10 Defensive Player of the Week while earning a 43.3% save percentage.
Yash Parikh, Men's Tennis
-As a freshman, only played in 7 singles matches (1 at #5, 6 at #6) finishing 4-3.
-As a sophomore, he has played 19 singles matches (1 at #1, 18 at #2) going 12-6 (was leading at Virginia tech in his lone unfinished match).
Gretchen Pearson, Women's Soccer
-As a freshman in 2017, played 992 minutes while starting 7 games.
-In 2018, started all 17 games as she led the team in minutes played with 1,553, and was an anchor for the defensive unit, while scoring a goal and adding an assist.
Colin Ross, Men's Track
"on Day 2 of the Atlantic-10 Championships and after running a personal-best in the 5000 on day 1, Colin Ross ran the fastest freshman time in school history in the 3000 meters (8:35) and was the only true freshman in the conference to score in the event. Colin has improved his time in the 3000 by over 25 seconds this year."
Mitchell Stanek, Men's Swimming
At the 2018 A-10 Championship, Mitchell missed qualifying for the championship heats by one place, twice! In his third event, he qualified for the B-Final with a fine swim. He scored six points. At the 2019 A-10 Championship, Mitchell qualified for the A Final in both the 400 Individual Medley and the 200 Breaststroke. In the 400 IM, he dropped more then three seconds to establish himself as Davidson’s third fastest performer of all-time. In the 200 Breaststroke he improved by almost 3 seconds, swimming to second all-time at Davidson. By meet’s end his 27 points more than quadrupled his contribution to the team’s total.
Josie Treadwell, Volleyball
-In 2019, Josie doubled her career total of digs with 394.
-Ranked 4th in the Atlantic 10 in digs per set and was the cornerstone for the 'Cats serve receive and defense during the year.
"Coming off last year being in and out of the lineup, Sam has had a tremendous year securing her spot in both singles and doubles. She has the second best record on the team with a 13-4 singles record and a 10-8 doubles record. Sam has been the rock for us this entire year and has come through for the team in many occasions. Against App. State she had match points against her, served an ace to stay in the match and then went on to clinch the match for us to gain a 4-3 win as a team. Against UNCA she clinched the doubles for us with a backhand poach winner on match point which took huge guts! She was 1 of only 2 players to win her singles matches against Winthrop, College of Charleston, and ECU all of who are nationally ranked. Against a strong A-10 Richmond team, with the team score at 3-3 and the last match on, down 2 match points Sam went all out and hit 2 winners in 2 consecutive points to stay in the match and then won the third set tiebreak to clinch the match for us as a team with a 4-3 decision."
-Has improved his scoring average by 4 shots from last season.
-Named Atlantic 10 Golfer of the Week after finishing 3rd out of 120 at the Furman Invitational.
-Entered the SoCon Championship as the #6 seed and won a thrilling overtime victory over the #3 seed from Chattanooga.
-" It was without question the biggest victory of his career and a breakthrough performance that he had been searching for."
-Earned the Atlantic 10 Most Improved Player Award and named 2nd Team All All-A10
-Increased her production in every statistical category, almost averaging a double-double (12.9 points, 9.2 rebounds)
-Improved from 2-9 to 6-5
-Secured the first winning season since 2007, collecting 3 conference wins (the most since 2010).
-Prior to 2019, had only played in nine games with only two starts.
-As a junior, she has started 15 games, was named an A-10 Defensive Player of the Week while earning a 43.3% save percentage.
-As a freshman, only played in 7 singles matches (1 at #5, 6 at #6) finishing 4-3.
-As a sophomore, he has played 19 singles matches (1 at #1, 18 at #2) going 12-6 (was leading at Virginia tech in his lone unfinished match).
-As a freshman in 2017, played 992 minutes while starting 7 games.
-In 2018, started all 17 games as she led the team in minutes played with 1,553, and was an anchor for the defensive unit, while scoring a goal and adding an assist.
"on Day 2 of the Atlantic-10 Championships and after running a personal-best in the 5000 on day 1, Colin Ross ran the fastest freshman time in school history in the 3000 meters (8:35) and was the only true freshman in the conference to score in the event. Colin has improved his time in the 3000 by over 25 seconds this year."
At the 2018 A-10 Championship, Mitchell missed qualifying for the championship heats by one place, twice! In his third event, he qualified for the B-Final with a fine swim. He scored six points. At the 2019 A-10 Championship, Mitchell qualified for the A Final in both the 400 Individual Medley and the 200 Breaststroke. In the 400 IM, he dropped more then three seconds to establish himself as Davidson’s third fastest performer of all-time. In the 200 Breaststroke he improved by almost 3 seconds, swimming to second all-time at Davidson. By meet’s end his 27 points more than quadrupled his contribution to the team’s total.
-In 2019, Josie doubled her career total of digs with 394.
-Ranked 4th in the Atlantic 10 in digs per set and was the cornerstone for the 'Cats serve receive and defense during the year.
