WILMINGTON, Ohio – Wilmington College men's track & field and men's basketball senior Colin Myers is WC's male Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) Clyde Lamb Award winner for the 2019-20 academic year.
The Clyde Lamb Award, established in 1985 and named after the longtime Ohio Northern University coach, is awarded to individuals who have at least two years participation in an OAC-sponsored sport, senior status, a minimum grade point average of 3.00 and sportsmanlike conduct in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete and his or her institution.
An agriculture major, Myers carries a 3.56 cumulative grade point average. Throughout his three years at Wilmington, Colin has been a Future Farmers of America member as well as partaking in WC Aggies. As part of Aggies, he served as participating director of one of the largest livestock judging contests in the state of Ohio. Additionally, Myers is a member of WC's 4-H group. Other academic ventures include Delta Tau Alpha Honors Society and being a four-time Academic All-OAC winner (twice in both men's basketball and men's track & field).
Myers will return to WC in December to complete his degree, but his athletic career concludes with the end of the 2019-20 academic year. A two-sport student-athlete for three years, Myers was a fixture on the outdoor track & field team's jump squad. He garnered All-OAC honors in the 2019 season with a runner-up finish in the triple jump (42' 11 3/4") while also placing in the top six of the high jump. Myers also competed in the long jump and two Fightin' Quaker relays in 2019.
On the court, Colin was a key piece of Wilmington's 2018-19 squad that came within a game of claiming its first OAC regular season title. This part season, Myers stepped into a full-time starting role and was one of four Quakers to average double digits in scoring while grabbing four rebounds per contest. He scored in double figures 15 times in the 26-game season including multiple 20-point performances (against Capital University and Ohio Northern University).
