Heath and Rzepka named McNeese MVPs

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Kingrey, Heath, Brown, Rzepka, Westman and Dark named McNeese MVPs

Athletes will be honored at a football game in the fall
June 20, 2006

Charlie Kingrey, Darrick Brown, Jimmie Heath, Michelle Rzepka, Lisa Westman and Beau Dark have been named most valuable athletes in their respective spring sports at McNeese State for 2006.

Brown, from Tangiapahoa, and Heath, from Rio Hondo, TX, were the standard bearers for the men and Rzepka, a native of Novi, Michigan, for the women during the recent track and field season for McNeese.

Brown led the Cowboys at the Southland Conference championship meet by winning the triple jump title and scoring 23 points while Heath set a school record by going 18-0 1/2 in the pole vault.


Both qualified for the national NCAA championship meet.

Rzepka won the women's SLC pole vault title, set a school record and finished in a sixth place tie at the NCAA national meet, earning all-America honors. She went 13-7 to set the Cowgirl record.

Michelle Rzepka - women's track MVP

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McNeese names Rzepka athlete of the year (6/30)
Michelle Rzepka, who finished in the top 10 in the pole vault at nationals, won a conference title and set a school record, has been named McNeese State's athlete of the year.

The Michigan native also earned all-America honors when she tied for sixth place during the recent NCAA championship meet.

She will be presented the Desmond Jones Athlete of the Year Award during pre-game ceremonies at a McNeese football game in the fall.

Throughout the spring season she was just about unbeatable. She set the school record of 13 feet, 7 inches, won the Southland Conference title and was a top-five finisher at the NCAA regionals, qualifying for the national meet.

She is McNeese's first women's pole vault conference champion and only the third Cowgirl to receive all-American status.

Rzepka, who was also named to the all-Louisiana collegiate track team as well as the state's newcomer of the year, is pursuing her master's degree at McNeese.