Track and field standout Jablonski wins LeClere Award

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.