UOG Student-Athlete Award Reception Recognizes Over 20 Student-Athletes
The University of Guam Triton Athletics presented over 20 awards on Monday night at
the UOG Student-Athlete Awards Reception held in the UOG Calvo Field House.
More than 50 student-athletes were present, in addition to UOG administrators including
UOG President Dr. Robert A. Underwood, Senior Vice-President of Academic and Student
Affairs Dr. Anita Borja Enriquez and Vice-President of Administration and Finance
Randy Wiegand.
Others in attendance were former Guam Senator Nerissa Underwood, UOG Chief Planning
Officer David Okada, UOG Chief Information Officer Rommel Hidalgo, Dean of the College
of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences James Sellmann, Director of Development and Alumni
Affairs Norman Analista, Director of Integrated Marketing Communications Jonas Macapinlac,
Acting Director of the RFK Library Monique Storie, and Student Government Association
President Samantha David. Also in attendance were family and friends of the student-athletes.
The award ceremonies started out with welcoming remarks and congratulations to the
student-athletes from President Underwood and Vice President Wiegand, followed by
a short update on the positives of the year from Athletic Director Doug Palmer. Palmer
also noted the challenges the new Triton Athletics program has faced to get four varsity
athletic programs started.
Some of the “Positives” For 2016-17 mentioned were:
The reception then moved to award portion of the program and UOG Volleyball Head
Coach Tatiana Sablan came forward to give out the volleyball awards:
Academic Awards (4.00 GPA for Fall 2016) were given to:
Volleyball Awards:
Head Coach Brent Tipton then stepped up to the microphone for the UOG Men’s Basketball
Team to present four awards to his Triton team to include:
Men’s Basketball Awards:
Then Men’s and Women’s Soccer Coach Rod Hidalgo came forward to give awards to
his Triton teams:
Appreciation Awards were given to two men’s soccer players who are transferring
to mainland universities in 2017-18:
Men’s Soccer Awards:
Women’s Soccer Awards: