WCJC athletes honored at annual sports banquet

Photo courtesey of John Dettling/WCJC Tony Frankie, son of the late Johnnie Frankie presents WCJC sophomore Chelsie Fowler with the prestigious Johnnie Frankie award at the 45th Annual WCJC Sports Banquet held earlier in the month at the Pioneer Student Center. Fowler is a graduate of New Braunfels and played volleyball for the Lady Pioneers the past two years.

Wharton County Junior College athletes were honored at last Tuesday's 45th Annual Athletic Banquet at the Pioneer Student Center.

Each year the WCJC Booster Club presents the best all-around athlete with the Johnnie Frankie Award in honor of the late Johnnie Frankie who coached several sports teams at Wharton County Junior College over many years.

T o n y Frankie, Johnnie's son, presented sophomore Chelsie Fowler of New Braunfels with the award.

Fowler was also named Most Valuable volleyball player by first year coach Brianna Florus.

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baseball coach Bob Nottebart named Cody Ross of Austin as the Most Valuable baseball player and rodeo coach Sean Amestoy selected Lauren Cox of Cotulla was the MVP.

Academic All-Conference 2007- 2008 awards were presented to athletes who had at least a 3.25 grade point average, had been enrolled at the college for at least three semesters, and had taken at least 36 hours of course work.

Academic All-Confer- ence athletes included Tracy Beicker (Volleyball) of Seguin, Kyle Koenig (Baseball) of East Bernard, Jennifer Inabnit (Volleyball) of Sugar Land, Kelli Thompson (Rodeo) of Wharton, Zach Weyand (Baseball) of Sugar Land and Max Herschap (Baseball) of Austin.