April 26, 2007
April 26, 2007
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Winston-Salem State University women's basketball senior forward Shalonda Carter (Fayetteville, NC) and senior punter Chad Oakley (Haw River, NC) were named as the 2006-07 Mary Garber WSSU Student-Athletes of the Year on Thursday evening at the annual WSSU Athletic Awards Banquet at Tanglewood Park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Carter, a senior forward on the WSSU women's basketball team capped a four-year career in which she tallied 1,451 points and pulled down 1,005 rebounds as she played in 111 games for WSSU making 105 starts.
A four-year starter for the Lady Rams, Carter turned in a stellar senior season as she averaged 13.2 points and 10.1 rebounds per game for the Lady Rams en route to posting rebounding numbers that placed her 25th in the nation in rebounds per game.
A member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and active community service member, Carter, who will graduate in May of 2007 was named the 2006-07 Mary Garber WSSU Female Student-Athlete of the Year.
Joining Carter in earning Student-Athlete of the Year honors was senior punter Chad Oakley. Oakley, a five-year member of the WSSU football program as a punter for the Rams caps an athletic career that sees him atop every statistical punting record in the history of the WSSU football program.
Oakley, a 6'0", 185-pound punter and placekicker for the Rams who, as the upcoming NFL draft nears closer, is receiving serious consideration from many National Football League teams is a four-year starter for the Rams who returned this past year from a 2005 season-ending injury to serve as a team captain for WSSU in their first season of Division I-AA play.
A two-time First-Team All-Conference selection, Oakley averaged better than 46 yards per kick in 2006 as he capped a season in which he missed only one field goal attempt and did not have a kick blocked.
An active member of the Winston-Salem community, and a very active community service advocate, Oakley, a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee who graduated with honors who graduated with a 3.93 GPA and is a five-time member of the WSSU Academic All-Stars Team (for those students with a GPA of 3.0 or better) was named the 2006-07 Mary Garber WSSU Male Student-Athlete of the Year.
Both Carter and Oakley received their Athlete of the Year Awards at the annual WSSU Athletic Awards Banquet that was held at the Barn at Tanglewood Park in which all of WSSU's 200-plus student-athletes, athletic administrators, and staff members were honored for their tireless service as they continue in the Rams' and Lady Rams' move to the Division I level.
 Shalonda Carter was named the 2006-07 WSSU Female Student-Athlete of the Year  |
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