Lawrence University track and field standout Stan Jablonski has won the 2011 Roy W. LeClere Award.
The LeClere Award is presented each year by the Midwest Conference to a two-sport athlete in the league who has the highest grade point average during their junior year. A biology/pre-medicine major, Jablonski (River Hills, Wis./Brookfield Academy) had a perfect 4.0 grade point average as a junior.
The female honor, the Ruth Peterson Award, went to Emily Schudrowitz of St. Norbert College.
Jablonski is a thrower for both the indoor and outdoor track and field teams at Lawrence and is a six-time letter winner. Jablonski has won the maximum number of Academic All-Midwest Conference awards and has been on the Dean’s List at Lawrence all three years. He also is a member of Lambda Sigma, Lawrence’s sophomore honor society, and Mortar Board, Lawrence’s senior honor society.
Jablonski joins a number of Lawrence student-athletes who have won either the LeClere Award or Peterson Award in recent years. Cross country and track standout Russell Geisthardt won the LeClere Award in 2007-08, and Lawrence swept the awards that year when Cat Marinac, a cross country and softball star, won the Peterson Award. Lisa Ritland (track, tennis) won the Peterson Award in 2008-09 and Jess Moser (cross country, track) took the Peterson Award in 2003-04.
The LeClere Award is named in honor of Roy W. LeClere, a collegiate sports enthusiast. LeClere’s passion for Midwest Conference sports led friends and co-workers to sponsor the award in his honor after his death.
Lawrence opens its indoor track season on Jan. 14 when it travels to the UW-Stevens Point Invitational.