By Tim Glon

WORTHINGTON — Seniors Ashley Borchers (Russia) and Cully Gordon (Holmesville/West Holmes) (XC/Track) were honored as Ohio Northern's Clyde Lamb Award winners for 2016-17 by the Ohio Athletic Conference at a reception on Monday evening.

The prestigious Clyde A. Lamb Scholar-Athlete Awards are presented annually to a single male and a single female from each of the league's 10 institutions.

Criteria for the award include at least two years participation in an OAC-sponsored sport, senior status, a minimum grade point average of 3.00 and sportsmanlike conduct in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete and his or her institution.

Borchers was named Second Team All-America by the American Volleyball Coaches Association as a setter this season.

She is a 4-year letterwinner and is majoring in early childhood education.

Borchers is a three-time All-OAC honoree, was the 2016 OAC Player of the Year and was named First team All-Great Lakes Region twice.

She is also a three-time Academic All-Conference honoree.

On campus, Borchers is a seven-time member of the Dean's List and earned Cum Laude Honors in seven semesters.

She is a member of the Collegiate Middle Level Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and Kappa Delta Pi Education Honorary.

Gordon is a four-year lettermen in both cross country and track and field and is majoring in mechanical engineering.

He won the OAC title in the 10,000-meter run at the 2016 OAC Championships and is a two-time All-OAC honoree.

He ranks sixth all-time at ONU in the 10,000 and is the 18th fastest cross country in ONU history.

Gordon is also a three-time Academic All-Conference honoree and made the Dean's List all eight semesters at ONU.

He is also an Eagle Scout and is a member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society.

The award was founded in 1985 and is named in honor of Clyde A. Lamb.

Lamb organized the department of health and physical education at Ohio Northern University in 1929, and served as a coach, department chairman and athletics director at ONU from 1929-64.

He continued to teach full-time until his death in 1969.

Lamb, who received his bachelor's degree from Coe College in 1923 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1929, coached numerous sports at Ohio Northern during his tenure.

In 1959, he was elected to the NAIA Helms Hall of Fame. He was honored as "Ada's Distinguished Citizen" in 1956 and was inducted into Ohio Northern's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1969.