Senior Britt Lauck (Lima Shawnee) and junior Amy Bullimore (Little Miami) were named All-America in women's basketball for 2016-17 by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
Lauck was a First Team WBCA All-American and Bullimore was named to the Honorable Mention All-America team.
D3hoops.com also named Lauck Second Team All-America.
Lauck and Bullimore led the Polar Bears in scoring this season, averaging 14.1 ppg each.
Lauck was also named First Team All-Great Lakes Region and was the Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Year from her point guard position.
ONU men's and women's outdoor track and field teams were selected to finish second in the OAC coaches preseason poll, voted on by the leagues 10 head coaches. Mount Union was picked to win by the coaches in both polls.
Ohio Northern is ranked 25th nationally in the Learfield Directors' Cup standings. Points are scored in nine men's and nine women's sports relative to their final standings in the NCAA Championships for those 18 sports.
The Polar Bears have scored 226.25 through March 15 and are expected to move up in the standings after the women's basketball team reached the Elite 8 of the NCAA III Tournament.
Senior Angela Tesny (Medina) and juniors Courtney Cramer (Arcadia) and Shannon Jack (Akron/St. Vincent St. Mary) each were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference for the 2016-17 basketball season.
Tesny, a 2-time letterwinner and Mechanical Engineering major, earned the honor for the third time in her career.
Cramer, a Marketing major, earned the honor for the second consecutive season.
Jack, a Public Relations major, was named Academic All-OAC in her first season as a Polar Bear.
Four members of the ONU men's swimming and diving deam were named Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference for 2016-17.
Senior Eric Chen (Mason), juniors Thomas Golba (Dayton/Alter) and Ian Simpson(Strongsville) and sophomore Gabe Rastatter (Springfield/Kenton Ridge) all received the honor.
Chen, a pharmaceutical business major, is now a 3-time Academic All-OAC honoree.
He is also a 13-time OAC Champion and a 19-time All-Conference award winner.
This season, Chen was part of ONU's OAC Champion 400 and 800 free relay teams and was All-OAC in the 100 and 200 free events and as part of ONU's 200 free and 400 medley relays.
