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Cedarville Magazine
SPORTS
Left to right:
Faculty Athletic Representative Teresa (Cooper) Clark ’75, Senior Woman
Administrator Valerie (Baise) Harmon ’90, Student-Athlete Advisory Committee member
Laura Farleman ’15, Athletic Director Dr. Alan Geist ’83, Student-Athlete Advisory
Committe member Chloe West ’16, Associate Athletic Director Chris Reese ’89, Student-
Athlete Advisory Committee member Jacob Forsythe ’15.
Photo: G-MAC
C e d a r v i l l e
bested eight other
schools to claim the
2013–14 President’s
Cup, an all-sports
award from the
Gr e at Mi dwe s t
Athletic Conference
(G-MAC) . The
Yellow Jackets won
G-MAC championships in men’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s
and women’s cross country, and men’s outdoor track and field this
year. The Jackets were league runners-up in baseball, women’s
tennis, and women’s outdoor track and field.
Cedarville Wins 2013–14 President’s Cup
Photo: Matt Franz
By a vote of the Cedarville University
head coaches, Women’s soccer standout
Jacoby Ziegler ’16 and men’s distance
running star Matt Brooker ’14 were named
the 2013–14 Yellow Jacket Club Athletes of
the Year.
Ziegler, a forward from Wellington,
Ohio, was named the Great Midwest
Athletic Conference (G-MAC) Offensive
Player of the Year for the second consecutive
season after leading the Lady Jackets to a
15-7 record— a school record for the most
victories in a season.
Ziegler ranked No. 2 in the country in
NCAA Division II scoring with 20 goals
and 10 assists for 50 points. She was voted
to the Daktronics NCAA Division II All-
America Second Team and to the All-Ohio
Division II First Team.
A Dean’s Honor List student as a
nursing major, Ziegler became the first
Lady Jacket to be named a CoSIDA First
Team Academic All-American.
Brooker, a computer science major
from Spring Mills, Pennsylvania, became
Cedarville’s first NCAA All-American
in any sport when he placed 28th at the
Yellow Jackets Name Athletes of the Year
Division II Men’s Cross Country Championship. His effort helped the Yellow Jackets finish
15th in the nation for the second straight year.
Brooker became Cedarville’s first All-Ohio Championship individual winner, he repeated
as the G-MAC Runner of the Year, and he placed fourth in the NCAA Division II Midwest
Regional.
Brooker qualified for the Division II Indoor Track & Field Championship in the 5,000
meters where he placed 12th. He ended his collegiate career at the Outdoor Championship
where he finished 14th in the 10K.
