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Highlights from the 2015-16 Season - Record Setting Performances

Recap the athletic season accomplishments from the 2015-16 year

In recent years, Western Illinois Athletics has recapped the highlights of the sports season with a Top 15 in '15 or Top 14 in '14. While compiling a list for the 2015-16 season, it was difficult to limit to just 16 items. So that's why the list for this year will be revealed a little differently.
 
During the month of June and July, Leatherneck Athletics will recap the main highlights from five different categories: Academics, Newsworthy Announcements, Athletic Season Accomplishments, Record Setting Performances, and Single Game Heroics.
 
Beginning next week, and running throughout the rest of July, WIU Athletics will unveil the Single Game Heroics category. 16 total single game accomplishments have been selected and WIU Athletics will give fans the opportunity to vote via social media on their favorite single-game memory from the 2015-16 season in a bracket-style format. All 16 of the moments will be released on Tuesday, July 5, and the first matchup in the bracket-style contest will be available for fans to vote on via Twitter and Facebook.

As always, Go Leathernecks!
 
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Record Setting Performaces

-- Men's Golf set a Division I program record for lowest three-round score with an 836 during the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate. Western shot 280 in rounds one and three and 276 during round two to break the record in the team's last event in Fall 2015.
 
-- Michelle Maher ended her Western Illinois career with two impressive records. She scored a single-game record 41 points at home versus North Dakota State on February 25. The four-year letterwinner entered her senior year as the program's all-time record holder for 3-point field goals and she added to it with 221 – a whopping 75 '3s' more than the next closest. She also became the 15th player in program history to score 1,000 career points.
 
-- Lance Lenoir wrapped up his junior year by re-writing the record books even more. The All-MVFC wide receiver put his name on 14 single-game, season, career and various playoff records during the 2015 campaign.
 
-- The men's swimming & diving team put together another record-setting season in 2015-16. The Leathernecks combined to break seven individual and relay records, many coming during The Summit League Championships.
 
-- Brett Taylor tied a Western Illinois season record with four fumble recoveries, and those four during the 2015 season tied for the NCAA national lead. He returned one of those fumbles 21 yards for a touchdown in the Homecoming victory against Southern Illinois.
 
-- The women's basketball team continues to re-write the 3-point field goal shooting record book. Western opened the 2015-16 campaign with a 108-46 win over Central Methodist, tying the single-game record with 17 '3s' made. The previous season record for most 3-FG was 235 during the 2012-13 season. The Leathernecks drained 292 shots from beyond the arc in 2015-16, shattering the previous record. Western also set a new team season record scoring 2,434 points (breaking the old mark by 42 points).

-- Max Ford broke a men's track and field 29-year-old record when he shattered the javelin record during the 2016 outdoor season.

 
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