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BUTLER NAMED EMPIRE 8 CONFERENCE SENIOR SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARD WINNER

Cross Country

Release Date

05/27/2009
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ROCHESTER, NY - Senior Amanda Butler (Utica, NY/Proctor) of the Utica College cross country team was named the 2009 Empire 8 Senior Scholar-Athlete Award women’s winner released by the conference office Wednesday. Butler shared the award with gymnast Frances Estes of Ithaca College. The award honors those student-athletes who best exemplify what it means to be a dedicated scholar and athlete over the course of their four-year collegiate careers.

“Amanda has shown tremendous leadership since the inception of our program and exemplifies what the NCAA would like in its student-athletes,” said Utica cross country assistant coach Michael Brych. “A committed athlete, she would take the lead in practice and take the younger members under her wing. Her diligence in her academics was even more remarkable and she spent every moment of our bus trips studying. Her dedication to the sport and the classroom transferred to her teammates and made everyone a better student-athlete.”

Butler, a two-time Empire 8 Conference Sportswoman of the Year on the cross country team and all-conference and Distinguished Athlete Award winner in softball, received the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Undergraduate Research Fellowship and a Mayo Clinic Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Butler had posters three times at the ASM National Meeting and presented at the 2007 meeting.

“Frances, and Amanda represent the very best of the Empire 8 and they are the embodiment of today’s student-athlete,” said Empire 8 Commissioner Chuck Mitrano. “They excel on and off the playing surface, on their campuses and in the community at large. As leaders and true scholar-athletes, we are proud to name them as recipients of our highest honor.”

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