Seniors Chelsea Huppert, Seth Transue named Ohio Northern's Clyde Lamb Award winners for 2019-20

By Tim Glon

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ADA — Seniors Chelsea Huppert (Bremen, Ind.) and Seth Transue (Plain City/Jerome) were named Ohio Northern's Clyde Lamb Award winners for the 2019-20 academic year.

The prestigious award is the highest honor given to Ohio Athletic Conference student-athletes each year, including one male and one female representative from each of the league's 10 institutions.

To receive the honor, an athlete must be a senior and have participated in an OAC-sponsored sport for at least two seasons, maintain a minimum 3.00 grade point average, and show sportsmanlike conduct in a manner that has brought credit to the student-athlete and his or her institution.

Huppert was named First Team All-America and First Team Academic All-America in volleyball as a senior in 2019.

She was also named Second Team All-America as a junior in 2018.

Huppert is a three-time First Team All-Great Lakes Region honoree and is a three-time First Team Academic All-District honoree.

She is also a four-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference award winner, earning First team accolades each of the past three seasons.

This season, Huppert finished second in the OAC with a .339 hitting percentage and was third with 356 kills and a 1.01 bps average.

Huppert is third all-time in ONU history with a career .338 hitting pct. and 125 career block solos, is fourth with 401 total blocks and is sixth with 1,380 kills.

Transue won the 133-pound weight class at the NCAA III Central Regional Wrestling Championships this winter and was seeded seventh at the NCAA III Championships before the season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

He was named the Central Regional Championships Most Valuable Wrestler and was a First Team All-Conference honoree.

Transue was also named a Scholar All-American by the National Wrestling Coaches Association.

He was 43-2 on the season and ended his career tied for 16th all-time in ONU history with a 96-41 career record.