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Leatherneck Softball Wins The 2024-2025 OVC Softball Team Sportsmanship Award

MACOMB, Ill- The Ohio Valley Conference announced today that the WIU Softball team won the 2024-2025 team sportsmanship award for the softball season. This is the first Western Illinois team to win an OVC sportsmanship award in the two years of being apart of the OVC. 

The sportsmanship award is voted on by the student-athletes and coaches of their respective sports, and the team awards are bestowed upon the Conference squads deemed to have best exhibited the standards of sportsmanship and ethical behavior as outlined by the OVC and NCAA. Included in the areas for evaluation are the conduct of student-athletes, coaches, staff and administrators and fans.

"Without sportsmanship there are truly no meaningful victories," said Beth DeBauche, OVC Commissioner. "The recipients of the OVC Team Sportsmanship awards should accept this award with great pride for their fellow competitors have made it clear their teams exemplify the best in intercollegiate athletics. In receiving this prestigious honor other competitors are saying these student-athletes compete with class, respect their opponents and value fair play. That is quite a compliment as those are all traits that will lead to true victories throughout the course of life."

In only their second year in the OVC, it marks the first sportsmanship award for the Western Illinois softball program. Implemented in August 2005, the team honors are the most recent addition to an awards program that recognizes and celebrates sportsmanship within the Ohio Valley Conference.

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