Men's Awards
Below is a list of Cadet earned awards for the listed academic years. Special note is to be made for the Koehn and Murph awards, named after, and in honor and memory of Danial Murphy (2003) and Kim Koehn (1973), both of whom exhibited such a love of our sport that so played a part in their lives that their families and teammates wished to preserved their memories when their lives were cut short.
In addition to these named awards, there is one other deceased cadet honored by his parents Don and Lois LaTorra, who recognized the passion and value their son placed on his AFA rugby experience. The LaTorra Fund, A true Endowment Fund created in memory of Ross LaTorra (80) and held at the AOG, spins off interest each year to support the Men's team.
As sometimes happens with changing of coaches and administrations, the details and names of these awards get confusing, so where the award was not given out by name, but another 'named' award was given, a 'best fit' for the honoree is place into the chart below. The details for each award that guided the 'best fit' are kept on this site for posterity: Murph Award and Koehn Award
There used to be a plaque in Arnold Hall that had the MVPs listed for men and women but we do not know where it is, so this is our history:
| Date | MV Back | MV Scrum | Best Rugby Representative | Murph Award for Most Inspirational | Koehn Award for Rugger of the Year |
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| 2016 | Iron man: Ben Burmester | Rookie Hunter Hancock; most improved Lawrende D'Agostino | Quincy Smith(inspirational) | Elliott Higgins | William Maschmeyer |
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| 2005 | Tommy Smith | ||||
| 2004 | Jared Alden | Ryan Sanders, Dan Steinhiser | |||
| 2003 | Nolan Foster | Wade Dahlgren, Ryan Wilmes | |||
| 2002 | JF Fryer | Josh Dean | |||
| 2001 | Dusty Born | Christian Grimm | |||
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| 1992 | Chuck Cocoran | ||||
| 1991 | Tony Baade | ||||
| 1990 | Al Fits | ||||
| 1989 | Jon Finley | ||||
| 1988 | David Gaines | ||||
| 1987 | Tom Sharpy | ||||
| 1986 | Keith McCoy | ||||
| 1985 | Mike Murray | Wayne Miller | Eric Johnson | Eric Johnson | |
| 1984 | John Savage | Bob Desantis | Mark Knofczyski | Mark Knofcynski | |
| 1983 | <no one> | <no one> | Joe Barkate | Joe Barkate | |
| 1982 | James Koehn | Dave Tachuk | Jim Taiclet, Joe Brennen | Jim Koehn, brother of Kim Koehn | |
| 1981 | <no one> | <no one> | Tom Robinson, Dane Marolt | ||
| 1980 | Tom Jones | Kevin Nagie | J Sirote, Steve Miller | ||
| 1979 | Tru Eyre | Schulz | John Golden, Tru Eyre | ||
| 1978 | Dave Winiger | Keith Wilkinson | Keith Wilkinson | ||
| 1977 | Ed Thomas | Barney Ballenger | Ed Thomas | ||
| 1976 | Jim Carter | Rich Carlson | Ed Thomas | ||
| 1975 | R. Sheppard | D Woock | |||
| 1974 | Bob Arnold | Gary Read | |||
| 1973 | Bill Diffly | Jim Yanigloss | |||
| 1972 | Bob Rice | Carl Stanberry | |||
| 1971 | Sean Edris | Dave McDougall | |||
| 1970 | Gary Schmidt | Dennis Leuthauser | |||
| 1969 | Bob Bennett | Les Dyer |
