Wake Forest Athletics
Thomas Sensing Earns ACC Sportsmanship Award
7/26/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Track and Field
July 26, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Rising senior Thomas Sensing earned the 2008-09 ACC Male Sportsmanship Award, which is presented to the student-athlete who best exemplifies sportsmanship.
Sensing, along with Maggie Bernard of Clemson and the North Carolina fencing team, were selected from a group of institutional nominees, which were submitted by Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAACs) and their advisors at ACC schools. Winners were determined by a review of the overall ACC SAAC. Each campus has recognized its individual and team nominees.
To be considered, nominees must have demonstrated consistently good sportsmanship and ethical behavior in his/her daily participation in intercollegiate athletics. The student-athlete must have also demonstrated good citizenship outside of the sports-competition setting and be of good academic standing.
Sensing had a tremendous outdoor season, earning a trip to his first NCAA Championships. He also set the school-record in the javelin with a toss of 222-10 en route to a second-place finish at the ACC Championships.
He qualified for his first NCAA Regionals in the javelin, discus and shot put and with his fifth-place finish in the javelin, he qualified for the NCAA Championships.
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