The Naval Academy Athletic Association announced its major athletic award winners this afternoon with
Andrew Ton of the tennis team winning the NAAA Sword for Men,
Alexandria Vallancey-Martinson from the rowing team winning the Vice Admiral Lawrence Sword for Women and
Cam Davis from the basketball team winning the Thompson Trophy. Cross country and track & field team members
Julian Perez and
Emily Craig were named winners of the Coaches' Calvert Award.
The NAAA Sword for Men is presented to that man of the graduating class who is considered by the Association's Athletic Council to have personally excelled in men's athletics during his years of varsity competition.
Ton is just the third tennis player and the first to play just tennis to win the award in the 129 year history of the award. Robert Cowin won the sword in 1969 and was a three-sport athlete that played tennis and Jonathan Wall, who played both squash and tennis, won in 1981.
Ton was the Patriot League Player of the Year all three years the award was given out (2018, 2019 and 2021), was the Patriot League Tournament Most Valuable Player in two of his three years (2018 and 2021) and the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year in two of the three years (2019 and 2021). He earned his third player-of-the-year laurel this season after posting an 8-1-1 record in singles and a 6-2-2 record in doubles to help the Mids win the Patriot League Tournament.
Ton compiled career records of 70-33 in singles and 66-22 in doubles while playing both No. 1 singles and doubles throughout his four seasons. Those overall marks included a combined 36-4 record against Patriot League foes.
He led the Mids to a 3-0 N-Star record against Army and won a Patriot League Championship all three years the tournament was held.
In the classroom, Ton finished with a 3.77 GPA as a quantitative economics major. He has earned ITA National Scholar-Athlete recognition in each of his first three years and has posted a 4.00 GPA in three semesters. He finished second in his class of 1,084 in military order of merit.
The Vice Admiral Lawrence Sword for Women is presented to that woman of the graduating class who is considered by the Association's Athletic Council to have personally excelled in women's athletics during her years of varsity competition.
Vallancey-Martinson is just the third women's rower to win the award in the 42 years that it has been presented and the first since Fiona McFarland in 2008. She was named First-Team All-Patriot League all three years (2020 season was canceled due to COVID) and was named a Second Team All-American in 2018 and 2019 by the Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association.
She was a member of the historic 2019 King's Cup championship crew and was invited to the 2020 U.S. Rowing U-23 selection camp. She has helped lead Navy to the Patriot League Championship and a berth in the NCAA Championship all three years the event was held.
The Thompson Trophy is presented to that midshipman, male or female, who has done the most during the year to promote athletics at the Naval Academy.
Davis is the 23
rd men's basketball player to win the award in the 129 years it has been given out and the first since O.J. Avworo in 2011.
Davis received First-Team All-Patriot League accolades this season as he led the Mids in both scoring (17.1 ppg) and assists (2.7 apg) for the second year in a row.
Davis was not only the team captain of the men's basketball team, but was also selected the captain of the captains by the team captains of Navy's other 32 varsity sports teams.
Navy finished the 2020-21 season 15-3 and 12-1 in the Patriot League, earning the outright No. 1 seed in the Patriot League Tournament for the first time since 1996-97.
Navy's 12 Patriot League wins were the most in the 30 years Navy has been in the Patriot League. The Mids opened the year 10-1, which was the best start for a Navy basketball team since 1946-47.
Navy defeated Big East Tournament champion Georgetown 78-71, which was Navy's first win over the Hoyas since 1976-77, and the first win over a then Big East Conference team since beating Pitt in 1996-97. The Mids also won the Star game over Army 69-62 for the third time in the last four years.
In the classroom, Davis compiled a 3.43 cumulative grade-point average as an ocean engineering major and was a two-time Academic All-District selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Davis will continue his academic work upon graduating this spring as he was selected for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT / WHOI) Joint Master's in Oceanography Program. There, he will work toward a graduate degree in applied ocean science and engineering.
The Coaches' Calvert Award recognizes a graduating varsity letter winner who displayed leadership, consistent effort, loyalty and dedication to the sport and who has taken their abilities beyond the expectations of the coach, peers and themselves.
Perez is just the third person to run both cross country and track to win the men's Calvert Award in its 48 years of existence and the first since Timothy Limbert in 1998.
Perez earned 10 varsity letters in his four years, winning four in cross country and three each in indoor and outdoor track & field.
Perez was the cross country team captain this fall and was part of eight teams to win the N-Star in 11 opportunities (three out of four in indoor track, three out of three in outdoor track, two out of four in cross country).
Perez won the Army-Navy cross country meet this year and was the favorite to win the 2020-21 Patriot League Cross Country Championship, but was unable to compete due to the Brigade ROM.
Craig is the eighth person to run both cross country and track to win the women's Calvert Award in the 42 years the award has been handed out and the first since Christina Blair in 2015.
Craig earned nine varsity letters in her four years, winning three each in cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field.
Craig finished first in the Army-Navy cross country meet in each of her last two years and was part of six teams that won the N-Star against Army (one out of four in cross country, two out of four in indoor track and three out of three in outdoor track).
She was one of the favorites to win the 2020-21 Patriot League Cross Country Championship, but was unable to compete due to the Brigade ROM.
Sport Specific Awards
FALL SPORTS
CROSS COUNTRY (M)
Julian K. Perez
WILLIE MCCOOL "Willie's Mission" MVP AWARD
CROSS COUNTRY (W)
Emily Marie Craig
ENSIGN KERRY O'NEILL AWARD
FOOTBALL
Myles Lee Fells
COOKE MEMORIAL FOOTBALL TROPHY
SPRINT FOOTBALL
Grant Christian Hooper
SEXTON MEMORIAL TROPHY
SAILING (OFFSHORE)
Donald Michael Poirier
ADMIRAL DuBOSE OFFSHORE SAILING TROPHY
SOCCER (M)
Ernando Manrique Jr.
LIEUTENANT MICHAEL F. WILSON SOCCER AWARD
SOCCER (W)
Victoria Bichngathi Tran
STACY FINLEY MEMORIAL MVP AWARD
VOLLEYBALL (W)
Madison Ann Sgattoni
USAA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
WATER POLO (M)
Robert Freeman Lee
USAA WATER POLO MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
WINTER SPORTS
BASKETBALL (M)
Richard Chidi Njoku
REAR ADMIRAL R. F. MARRYOTT MEN'S BASKETBALL AWARD
BASKETBALL (W)
Jennifer Briel Coleman
ADMIRAL CHARLES R. LARSON WOMEN'S BASKETBALL AWARD
GYMNASTICS
Max Jacob Gerber
REAR ADMIRAL HERBERT L. JUKES GYMNASTICS AWARD
RIFLE
Michael Defreitas Zanti
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER AWARD
SQUASH
Jonathan Rowe Lentz
BARB SQUASH TROPHY
SWIMMING (M)
Lucas Mark Johnson
THE ROBERT E. COWELL MEMORIAL SWIMMING TROPHY
SWIMMING (W)
Ashley Nicole Boddiford
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY SWIMMING TROPHY
WRESTLING
Casey John Cobb
WEEMS WRESTLING AWARD
SPRING SPORTS
BASEBALL
Jared Nolan Leins
DAUGHTERS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR BASEBALL AWARD
CREW - HEAVYWEIGHT (M)
Martin Joseph Duffy III
RUSSELL S. RUSTY CALLOW MEMORIAL CREW AWARD
CREW - LIGHTWEIGHT (M)
Clinton Duke Brady IV
"SPIRIT OF THE LIGHTWEIGHTS" CREW AWARD
CREW (W)
Skylar Ann Lodice
LAURA STEGMAN WOMEN'S CREW INSPIRATION AWARD
GOLF (M)
Charles Joseph Musto
THE MORROW GOLF M.V.P. AWARD
GOLF (W)
Christine Marie McDonnell
THE MORROW WOMEN'S GOLF M.V.P. AWARD
LACROSSE (M)
Donovan John Murphy
VICE ADMIRAL E.C. WALLER LACROSSE AWARD
LACROSSE (W)
Christine Ann Fiore
THE JENNIFER M. POWERS MOST-IMPROVED PLAYER AWARD
SAILING, INTERCOLLEGIATE
Connor Michael Bayless
JOHN PAUL JONES INTERCOLLEGIATE SAILING TROPHY
TENNIS (M)
Andrew Quoc Duy Ton
WALLING-KIMMEL MEMORIAL TENNIS CUP
TENNIS (W)
Kacey Elizabeth Moore
BILL AND SANDRA MOORE WOMEN'S VARSITY TENNIS AWARD
TRACK - INDOOR/OUTDOOR (M)
Clayton Daley Thompson
CAPTAIN ROBERT CECIL BRIXNER TRACK TROPHY
TRACK INDOOR/OUTDOOR (W)
Samantha Elizabeth Orie
WOMEN'S TRACK MOST INSPIRATIONAL AWARD
