21 March 2000
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Coon, Glerum Earn CCIW All-Academic Honors
Junior Melissa Glerum and senior Korey Coon are Illinois Wesleyan's winter sports Jack Swartz Academic All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Award honorees.
Two honorees are chosen from each school each athletic season and must have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2. The award was named in May 1996 for long-time CCIW commissioner Jack Swartz, a 1952 Wheaton graduate who was the Crusaders' head coach in football and tennis and served the school as athletic director and physical education chair from 1958 until his death in 1997.
Glerum, a women's basketball player from Champaign (Centennial HS), is an accounting major with a 3.77 grade-point average. She is a Dean's List honoree and a member of the IWU Accounting Society.
A 5-foot-7 guard, Glerum averaged 10.3 points per game this season and was IWU's leading scorer in three games. With 751 points, Glerum is No. 18 in career scoring at IWU and is fourth in career 3-point field goals made with 100. She also holds school records for 3-pointers in a season (53 in 1998-99) and in a single game (six, vs. Fontbonne, Dec. 1, 1998).
She is the daughter of Riley and Linda Glerum, 2005 O'Donnell Dr., Champaign.Coon, a 6-foot-guard from East Peoria High School, was the GTE® College Division "Academic All-American of the Year" for men's basketball and a first team Academic All-American for the second straight year. He was also the winner of the Jostens Trophy, recognizing the outstanding student-athlete in Division III basketball.
He has a 4.0 grade-point average as a risk management and history major. A member of the IWU Economics Society, he is the author of "Macroeconomic Effect of the GM Strike" paper for economics journal. Coon is a volunteer for Big Brothers/Big Sisters, was a Relay for Life Walk participant, and Kiwanis Club guest speaker. On campus, he is a member of the Titan Law Club, treasurer of the Risk Management and Finance Society, and president of the Phi Eta Sigma scholastic honorary.
For the past two seasons, Coon has been the co-winner of the CCIW "Most Outstanding Player" award and was an all-CCIW first team selection for three straight years.
This year, Coon averaged 22.0 points per game for the 17-8 Titans, making a school-record 157 of 163 free throws (.963). He was IWU's leading scorer in 17 games, including a career-high 42 against North Central.
He finished his career fifth in scoring at IWU with 1,782 points, No. 2 in career free throws made (449), and as the all-time leader with 245 3-point field goals.
He is the son of Larry and Nancy Coon, 601 Oakwood Rd., East Peoria.IWU, founded in 1850, enrolls about 2,000 students in a College of Liberal Arts, College of Fine Arts, and a four-year professional School of Nursing. A $15 million athletics and recreation center opened in the fall of 1994 and a $25 million science center opened in fall 1995. The $5.1 million Center for Liberal Arts, a facility housing 60 faculty offices, six classrooms, and other facilities for social science, humanities, business and economics, and interdisciplinary studies' faculty, opened in August 1997, as did a new $6.8 million residence hall. The Carnegie Commission for the Advancement of Teaching promoted Illinois Wesleyan to a "Baccalaureate I" institution in 1994, a classification that places it among 161 highly-selective National Liberal Arts Colleges in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, another respected college guide, rated IWU "highly competitive +" in its latest edition.
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN'S ALL-ACADEMIC SELECTIONS
COLLEGE CONFERENCE OF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN1991-92
Fall
Chris Bisaillon, Football
Amy Rajala, Volleyball
Winter
Chris Morton, Men's Swimming
Stacy Willard, Women's Basketball
Spring
Jason Howell, Men's Track
Jennifer Jancik, Softball1992-93
Fall
Chris Bisaillon, Football
Kristy Hanley, Volleyball
Winter
Chris Morton, Men's Swimming
Stacy Willard, Women's Basketball
Spring
Chris Fusco, Men's Tennis
Alisa Swanson, Softball1993-94
Fall
Paul Rudnicke, Football
Jeneé Wolters, Volleyball
Winter
John Lipic, Men's Basketball
Angela Thomas, Women's Basketball
Spring
Mark Kalinowski, Baseball
Farah Mahmood, Women's Track1994-95
Fall
Jason Richards, Football
Elise LoBue, Volleyball
Winter
Tim Peterson, Men's Swimming
Traci Butler, Women's Basketball
Spring
John Feely, Baseball
Lori Brown, Softball1995-96
Fall
Lon Erickson, Football
Elise LoBue, Volleyball
Winter
Jon Litwiller, Men's Basketball
Traci Butler, Women's Basketball
Spring
Chad Moser, Men's Tennis
Kristin Stankus, Softball1996-97
Fall
Lon Erickson, Football
LeAnn Genzel, Volleyball
Winter
Bryan Crabtree, Men's Basketball
Kristin Stankus, Women's Basketball
Spring
James Rinne, Baseball
Nicki Frank, Women's Track1997-98
Fall
Karl Pierburg, Football
LeAnn Genzel, Volleyball
Winter
Brent Niebrugge, Menâs Basketball
Maggie Lamb, Womenâs Basketball
Spring
James Rinne, Baseball
Amy Pollitz, Softball1998-99
Fall
Josh Shipley, Menâs Soccer
LeAnn Genzel, Volleyball
Winter
Korey Coon, Men's Basketball
Sara Seebruch, Women's Basketball
Spring
Adam Hanes, Baseball
Sara Kummer, Softball1999-2000
Fall
Josh Shipley, Menâs Soccer
Jennifer Collar, Women's Tennis
Winter
Korey Coon, Men's Basketball
Melissa Glerum, Women's Basketball
