May 28, 2010
DAVIS, Calif. - UC Davis football standout Chris Carter, swimmer Scott Weltz, golfer Alice Kim and distance runner Kaitlin Gregg have been named recipients of UC Davis Athletics' top annual awards for the 2009-10 athletic year, it was announced on Friday. They will be honored during the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame and Student-Athlete Awards Ceremonies at Freeborn Hall on June 5.
Carter, named the Great West Conference Offensive Player of the Year last fall, and Weltz, the Big West Conference Swimming and Diving Male Athlete of the Year, share the Colby E. "Babe" Slater Award as the outstanding male athletes. Kim, the Big West Women's Golfer of the Year, will receive the Hubert Heitman Award as outstanding female athlete. Gregg, who had three distance marks on the track that pushed her to No. 2 all-time in both events, will receive the William P. Lindley Award as the school's outstanding scholar-athlete.
Carter helped lead UC Davis to the 2009 Great West Conference championship last fall while pacing the team with 85 receptions - second-most all-time at UC Davis - and 889 yards while also scoring four touchdowns. The senior from Danville, whose 213 career catches set a school record, highlighted his year with an Aggie-record 18 receptions against fourth-ranked Montana, tying him for most in a single game among NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision players in 2009. He also had a key fourth-down reception in overtime at South Dakota, setting up UC Davis' winning points in the 24-23 victory. Carter added All-Great West honors for the third time in his career including last season's first-team nod.
Weltz, a senior from San Jose, helped lead the men's swimming and diving team to the Big West championship this past season, capturing the 200-yard individual medley, 100 butterfly and 200 breaststroke at the meet while swimming on the winning 800 free relay. He set school records in the 100 fly and 100 breaststroke at the Texas Invitational and had the country's second-fastest time in the 200 IM when he went 1:45.48 during the three-day invitational. Weltz, twice the league's swimmer of the week, was named the Big West Swimming and Diving Male Athlete of the Year for the second straight season, qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships for the second consecutive year and earned Div. I Mid-Major All-America honors by CollegeSwimming.com. He concluded his career with five individual event school records and his named etched on 13 top-10 lists.
Kim, a junior from Walnut, was part of a dominant Aggie women's golf team that captured its first-ever Big West Conference championship with an impressive 19-stroke win at the league meet at San Luis Obispo in April. Kim, who earned her third straight All-Big West first-team honor, was named the Big West Golfer of the Year after posting five top-10 finishes. She earned was runner-up at the Ron Moore Intercollegiate, took fifth at the Fresno State Lexus Classic and had two seventh-place performances, including at the Turtle Bay Collegiate Invitational in Hawaii when the Aggies beat three top-10 teams to capture an impressive team title.. Kim, who led UC Davis in scoring average and was twice the conference's golfer of the month, was fifth at the Big West Championship and played in the NCAA West Regional for the third straight year. Twice she tied her own school record with rounds of 67 and finished four tournaments at 2-over or better.
Gregg, a senior from Davis, has distinguished herself both on the track and in the classroom. In competition, she had strong marks in the 3,000-meter run (9:30.94), the 5,000 (16:21.99) and the 10,000 (34:01.20) in 2009, putting her second on the Aggies' career leaders list in each event. She qualified for the NCAA West Regional in the 10,000 and competed Thursday against an elite field at the University of Texas in that event. Off the track, she is an Academic All-Big West honoree and All-Academic by the track and cross country coaches association. She is scheduled to graduate summa cum laude in June in her double-major of international relations and economics. Gregg has been a volunteer with Special Olympics, a program coordinator for the Economics for Leaders Summer Program in Ohio and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society.
The Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame Ceremonies will feature the induction of Justin Reid (baseball), Jason Boyd (golf), Mike Oliva (football), Amy Rosson (softball), Tiffany Hodgens (water polo), Kelly Albin (lacrosse) and Fred Arp (coach).
