7/2/2009 7:38:27 PM
Indian Trail, N.C.----Wingate University senior lacrosse student-athlete Evan Schaller (Kirkville, N.Y.) is featured on page 23 of the Summer 2009 edition of Sports Spectrum magazine. Sports Spectrum is a Christian sports magazine that highlights professional and college athletes. The publication has a subscriber base that reaches all 50 states, Canada and 10 foreign countries.
Schaller is featured with three other college student-athletes in the Up Next feature (A New Generation of Winners), written and compiled by Jim Gibbs. In the Summer 2009 issue of Sports Spectrum, Schaller is featured next to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill senior baseball pitcher Adam Warren, among others. In the feature, Schaller shares a few career highlights, his favorite Bible verse and his goals.
Earlier this month, Schaller was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® men’s at-large second team (college division), selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). An Accounting major and an English minor with a 3.84 GPA, Schaller earns ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® honors for the first time in his illustrious Bulldog career.
Evan Schaller is the first Wingate lacrosse student-athlete to earn ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® men’s at-large laurels. In addition, Schaller was the only NCAA Division II lacrosse student-athlete to make the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® college division men’s at-large team this year.
Schaller completes a rare triple play with the Academic All-America® honor, as he was named to the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association NCAA Division II All-America second team in May. In addition, the USILA picked the four-year Bulldog starter as a member of the organization’s 2009 Scholar All-America team.
On the lacrosse field, Schaller led the 2009 Bulldogs with 63 ground balls. The cornerstone of the Wingate defense also posted one goal and two assists during the 2009 campaign. Schaller is a two-time All-Deep South Conference choice.
In 2008, Schaller had a career-high 96 ground balls as he helped the Bulldogs post an 11-3 overall record. Wingate allowed only 8.20 goals per game in 2008, ninth in the NCAA in scoring defense.
Schaller was named to the All-DSC tournament team in 2007 and 2008. During his Bulldog career, Schaller and his teammates won 40 games. Wingate has won or shared the Deep South Conference regular season title in 2006, 2007 and 2008. The Bulldogs won the DSC tournament crown in 2007.
Outside the lacrosse arena, Schaller served as a tutor and a manager in Wingate’s Academic Resource Center, helping run the center and tutoring students in accounting, production management and religion. A member of the Delta Mu Delta and Alpha Chi honor societies, Schaller spent the fall 2007 semester in London as part of the University’s Wingate-in-London program.
Schaller served as a peer mentor during the fall 2008 semester, assisting Wingate University freshmen as they made the transition from high school to college. Schaller has also participated in the Up ‘til Dawn fund-raiser to benefit St. Jude’s Hospital.
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a private four-year co-educational institution of 2,129 students, offering active learning opportunities through personalized instruction, international study, faith development, career discovery and community service.
Wingate offers 40 undergraduate majors in arts and sciences, business, education, fine arts, music and sport sciences. It also offers graduate degrees in business, education, physical education, physician assistant studies, sport administration. In addition, the school awards the doctor of pharmacy and the doctor of education degrees.
Bulldog student-athletes compete in 17 NCAA Division II sports. Wingate University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past three years.
Wingate University is ranked number three among NCAA Division II Academic All-America® producing schools in the 2000’s with 34 honorees during this millennium. Only Pittsburg State (Kan.) University and Truman State (Mo.) University have produced more Academic All-America® honorees during this time period. Wingate’s 43 Academic All-America® honorees (lifetime) is tops among all SAC schools.