Pride celebrate 2025-26 at Clarke Athletic Honors

On Monday, Apr. 20, the Clarke Unviersity Athletic Department hosted their first annual Clarke Athletic Honors night at Terence Donaghoe Hall to celebrate the 2025-26 season and achievements for Pride student-athletes, coaches, and teams.

A nearly 40-minute ceremony announced the nominees of 16 awards as well as recognizing the department's NAIA Scholar-Athletes and All-Heart honorees over the previous 12 months and was sandwiched in the middle of a pre-show blue carpet experience with photo opportunities along with post-show ice cream courtesy of Delaney's Ice Cream Shoppe.

Here is the full list of awards with finalists (when applicable) with the winner signified in bold:

Newcomer of the Year

Men: Keifer Landes (Winner) - Track and Field

Women: Amalia Ortega (Winner) - Golf

Moment of the Year

Winner: Softball - Teal Transburg walkoff home run on Senior Day

Team Champions of Character

Men's Lacrosse (Winner) | Softball | Women's Volleyball

Team GPA (2024-25 Grades)

Men: Bowling (Winner)

Women: Golf (Winner)

Most Improved Team

Men: Baseball | Cross Country (Winner) | Track and Field

Women: Bowling | Golf (Winner) | Softball

Team of the Year

Men: Baseball (Winner) | Bowling | Track and Field

Women: Basketball | Golf (Winner) | Softball

Coach of the Year

Adam Hocking - Women's Basketball | Brian McCabe - Baseball | Brock Hartley - Golf | Brooke Green (Winner) - Bowling | Garland Shirley - Softball

Athlete of the Year 

Men: Camryn Stefanini - Bowling | Keifer Landes (Winner) - Track and Field | Theo Deberghes - Lacrosse

Women: Amalia Ortega - Golf | Lauren Hefel - Softball | Zoe Kennedy (Winner) - Basketball

Ed Colbert Athletics Career Achievement

Men: Bryce Kondos (Winner) - Cross Country/Track and Field

Women: Grace Squires (Winner) - Track and Field

The full photo gallery from the pre-show and the awards winner can be found HERE