Aimee Gibbs Presented Don Scalf Award

September 15, 2004 - Each year the USA South presents its most prestigious awards by honoring one male and one female as the Student-Athletes of the Year.  In July, Christopher Newport runner Aimee Gibbs and Greensboro golfer Jonathan Dudley were named the 2004 recipients of the Don Scalf Award.  Saturday Gibbs was presented with her award.

This award is named in honor of Don Scalf, whose commitment to the student-athlete, guardianship of the value of academic achievement and devotion to the principles of Division III athletics set a standard that holds steadfast in the Conference today. He taught for 36 years and coached for 18 at N.C. Wesleyan. He also served as Athletic Director for six years. During his coaching career his teams won DIAC basketball and golf championships. He was a founding father of the DIAC in 1963 and served as its Secretary-Treasurer for 25 years.

USA South Commissioner Rita Wiggs honored Gibbs at halftime of the Captains football game.  Don and JoAnn Scalf, along with CNU President Paul S. Trible, Jr., were on hand to recognize this year's recipient. 

During her tenure at CNU, Gibbs was dominant both on the cross country course and in the classroom.  She was on the Dean's List and USA South All-Academic Team all four years.  Gibbs was also named Verizon Academic All-American the last three years.  For her efforts, she was named Academic All-American by the Cross Country Coaches Association in 2002, won the CNU Athlete of the Year from the Peninsula Sports Club in 2004 and was just awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship for Academic and Athletic Excellence.  She recently graduated with a 3.7 grade point average in biology.  Athletically, Gibbs holds virtually every school distance record and ran 12 of the 20 fastest times in CNU history.  Each of her four years she was the USA South champion, First Team All-Conference, an NCAA qualifier and the team MVP.  The last three years she was All-South Region and the Mason-Dixon Conference champion.  Gibbs also won the Karen Humphrey Award for women's distance running three straight years.  Her uniform was retired by CNU at the end for the 2004 season.  This is Gibbs' second Don Scalf Award in as many years.