2018-19 SLIAC All-Sports Award
Webster Provost Dr. Julian Schuster, Webster Athletic Director Scott Kilgallon, Webster President Dr. Beth Stroble and Webster's Faculty Athletic Rep Scott Jensen receive the All-Sports Award at Tuesday's SLIAC Awards Banquet.

General Ben Greenberg, Sports Information Director

Webster Captures Third Straight and 18th All-Time SLIAC All-Sports Trophy

SUNSET HILLS, Mo. – Webster University continued its dominance of winning the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference All-Sports Trophy as the Gorloks took home the 2018-19 trophy for the third consecutive season here Tuesday evening during the SLIAC Awards Banquet that was held at Tapawingo National Golf Club.
 
With its win this school year, Webster has now won the SLIAC All-Sports Trophy 18 times in the 21-year history of the award, including winning 14 times in the last 15 years combined as the only year they didn't win was in 2015-16 when they finished as runner-up to Westminster (Mo.), who took home the trophy.
 
After winning by 13.5 points last year over Greenville, Webster's margin this season was a little larger as they scored a total of 122.5 points to outdistance runner-up Greenville by 15 points. Entering the spring sports season, Webster held a 1.5-point lead over the Panthers, but during the spring sports season alone, Webster scored a total of 58.5 points, while Greenville scored 52.5 points, but they don't compete in men's golf and lost 8.5 points after their 8.5 points in men's soccer were deducted due to the use of an ineligible player. If Greenville would've been able to add those 8.5 points to their final total, Webster would've won by 6.5 points over the Panthers.
 
Fontbonne was third with 92 points, while Spalding placed fourth with 89 points and Principia College finished fifth with 73.5 points. Westminster (Mo.) College was sixth with 73 points, while Iowa Wesleyan's was seventh with 54.5 points and Eureka place eighth with 45 points. Blackburn was ninth with 39.5 points and MacMurray was 10th with 27.5 points. 
 
During the 2018-19 season, Webster took home SLIAC titles in women's soccer, women's cross country, volleyball, men's basketball, men's golf, baseball and women's track and field. In addition, Webster tied for second in men's soccer and finished second in men's track and field and men's cross country and finished third in both men's and women's tennis. In fact, only one of Webster's sports finished lower than fourth in the any of the 14 conference sponsored sports they compete in as Webster finished seventh in softball. 
 
Along with capturing regular season SLIAC titles in women's soccer, baseball, men's basketball and volleyball, Webster also won the SLIAC Tournament title in baseball. The Gorloks also competed in the NCAA Tournament in men's and women's cross country, men's golf and baseball and had one individual, sophomore Jacob Ridenhour (Jerseyville, Ill./Jerseyville) qualify in the 60-meter dash for the NCAA D-III Indoor Track and Field Championships. Ridenhour became the second consecutive Gorlok student-athlete to earn a spot in the NCAA National Championships for track and field.
 
The SLIAC All-Sports Championship Trophy is determined by awarding points based on each schools' finish in the Conference's 15 sports, earning ten points for a first-place finish, nine points for a second-place finish, etc.  Teams finishing tied split the points for the tied spot and the spot(s) immediately following (two teams finishing tied for third receives 7.5 points).
 
Along with handing out the All-Sports Award on Tuesday night, the league also handed out awards for Team Sportsmanship, the SAAC Community Service Project Award, the league's Post Graduate Scholarship Award, the Lee McKinney Distinguished Service Service Award and also the SLIAC Class of 2019 Hall of Fame inductees. Among the Hall of Fame inductees were former Gorlok men's soccer coach Marty Todt and former women's basketball player Angie Carr.
 
Todt earns his spot in the SLIAC Hall of Fame after serving as Webster's men's soccer coach for 25 years from 1988-2012. During his time with the Gorloks, Todt led Webster to five regular season SLIAC titles and four SLIAC Tournament championships. He finished his Gorlok career with a program-record 238 wins, including a school record 16 victories during the 1999 season. Todt recorded a career record of 238-189-50 at Webster and was 123-66-21 in the SLIAC. When he retired from coaching in 2012, Todt ranked 44th on the NCAA active coaching wins list. In his time at Webster, Todt, who is a 1992 graduate of Webster, led the Gorloks to 14 winning seasons and he earned six SLIAC Coach of the Year honors. 
 
He helped lead Webster to five NCAA Tournament appearances, including advancing to the second round of the 2005 NCAA Division III Tournament. Webster also advanced to 17 SLIAC Tournaments in Todt's 25 years and posted a 16-12 record in the tournament and won tournament titles in 1995, 2005, 2009 and 2012. He Coached six student-athletes that have been inducted into the Webster Athletics Hall of Fame with two of those athletes also have been inducted into the SLIAC Hall of Fame - Jeff Reis (2007) and Pat McSheehy (2009). Was inducted into the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Famer in 2011 and was inducted into Webster's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012. 
Webster's SLIAC Hall of Fame Class of 2019 inductees Marty Todt (left) and
Angie Carr (right) pictured with Webster University President Dr. Beth Stroble.

 
Carr earns her spot in the SLIAC Hall of Fame after being a standout member of the Webster women's basketball program from 2001-05. In her career as a Gorlok, Carr, who is from Springfield, Mo., and graduated from Parkview High School, is the school's all-time leading scorer (1,658 points) and is fourth all-time in career scoring in SLIAC history. Additionally, she holds the school's all-time record for field goals made (620), field goals attempted (1,231) and is second in career scoring average (16.3 ppg), career field goal percentage (50.4 percent), career free throws made (373), career rebounds (749) and third on the school's all-time list in steals (196), minutes played (2,674) and fourth in career free throw percentage (73.3 percent). In her time at Webster, she was a three-time First-Team All-SLIAC selection and was named the league's Player of the Year as a senior in 2004-05. That same year, she was also named an Honorable Mention Division III News All-American, one of just three women's basketball All-Americans in school history and was also the SLIAC Tournament MVP in 2005 as she led the Gorloks to the tournament title. 
 
As a senior in 2004-05, Carr led the league in scoring as she averaged 18.6 points and also averaged 6.6 rebounds per game. Led Webster to two NCAA Tournament appearances, including being a key reserve on the school's 2001-02 squad that won a school record 25 games and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Scored over 300 points in each of her final three seasons, including leading the league in scoring in both 2002-03 and 2004-05 and is one of just two Webster women's basketball players to score over 1,000 points and record over 700 rebounds in a career. Helped lead the Gorloks women's basketball to an overall record of 74-35 and a 46-10 mark in SLIAC play. In 2012, Carr, who will become the third member of that 2001-02 Webster team to be enshrined into the SLIAC Hall of Fame, was inducted into Webster's Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Jacob Ridenhour

Jacob Ridenhour

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Players Mentioned

Jacob Ridenhour

Jacob Ridenhour

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