Men's Awards

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Below is a list of Cadet earned awards for the listed academic year. Special note is to be made for the Koehn and Murphy 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.

Other than this award, as of this writing, there are three other ways we have honored rugby grads who have joined the spectators in the stands:

- Latorra Fund, A true Endowment Fund created in memory of . The Men's team is eligible to annually use the interest.

- Laura Ashley Piper (92) died in Iraq and whose family set up a women's rugby fund at the AOG (the fund was later transferred to the Endowment and folded into the women's Operational Fund)

https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=117007

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1994/04/19/a-life-of-promise-and-potential-ends-tragically-in-skies-over-iraq/9e8647d9-f7ef-4637-94b7-dc98cdae0096/?utm_term=.d5000a4d9472

http://articles.latimes.com/1994-04-24/news/mn-49918_1_air-force-academy


- Adrianna Maria Vorderbruggen, A graduate who lost her life in Afghanistan while serving in the AF OSI.

http://www.odmp.org/officer/22716-special-agent-adrianna-maria-vorderbruggen



As sometimes happens with changing of coaches and administrations, these details get lost, 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: Murphy Award and Koehn Award


Coach's Awards
Date MV Back MV Scrum Best Rugby Representative Murphy Award Koehn Award
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985 Mike Murray Wayne Miller Eric Johnson
1984 John Savage Bob Desantis Mark Knofczyski
1983 <no one> <no one> Joe Barkate
1982 James Koehn Dave Tachuk Jim Taiclet, Joe Brennen
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