Senior Tara Tokar was named OAC Midfielder of the Year, head coach Mark Batman was voted OAC Coach of the Year and seven players were named All-OAC in women's soccer in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
Senior defender Paige Garber, sophomore forward Kristina Klusek and Tokar all were named First Team All-OAC.
Senior goalie Erin Waehner, junior midfielder Abbie Schauble and junior defenseman Abby Vargo were each voted Second Team All-OAC.
Junior forward Sami Atkinson was also named Honorable Mention All-OAC.
Ohio Northern was eliminated by No. 2-ranked Wittenberg in the First Round of the NCAA III Volleyball Great Lakes Regional Tournament 25-23, 25-20, 25-17 Thursday afternoon at Calvin's Van Noord Arena.
The Polar Bears end their season at 24-7 overall, while the Tigers improve to 26-4.
Wittenberg will advance to the Second Round of the tournament and will face either No. 6-ranked Hope (Mich.) or No. 10-ranked Otterbein Friday at 4:30 pm.
The Regional finals are slated for Saturday at 7 pm.
Senior Ellen Grenert had eight kills and freshman Kaitlann Hogrefe and freshman Anna Ricker had seven kills each for the Polar Bears.
The Ohio Northern men's soccer team won all five of the Special Awards and had seven players named All-OAC in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
Senior Nate Bascom was named OAC Forward of the Year, senior Mac Church earned OAC Goalkeeper of the Year and senior Chris Matejka was voted Midfielder of the Year.
In addition, senior Austin Windsor was named OAC Defender of the Year and head coach Brent Ridenour was voted OAC Coach of the Year.
Bascom, Matejka, Windsor and Church all were named First Team All-OAC as were senior Cameron Johnson and freshman Keegan Ross.
Three Ohio Northern players were named All-Ohio Athletic Conference in volleyball for 2012 in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.
Senior outside hitter Ellen Grenert was named First Team All-Conference, senior setter Kelsie Zumberger was named Second Team All-OAC freshman outside hitter Ellie Gillespie was named Honorable Mention All-Conference.
Gillespie was also named the OAC Freshman of the Year.
Grenert is now a two-time All-OAC honoree after earning Second Team All-OAC kudos as a junior in 2011.
