Seniors Cameron Marous and Sydney Leshnak named Ohio Northern's Clyde Lamb Award winners
By Tim Glon
| Cameron Marous video | Sydney Leshnak video |
| List of ONU's Clyde Lamb Winners | OAC Clyde Lamb Site |
ADA — Seniors Cameron Marous (Brecksville/Brecksville-Broadview Heights) and Sydney Leshnak (Cincinnati/Mount Notre Dame) were named to the NCAA Ohio Northern's Clyde Lamb Award winners for 2020-21.
The Clyde A. Lamb Awards are presented annually to ten male and ten female student-athletes from each of the Ohio Athletic Conference institutions and is the highest honor granted by the league.
Marous is a 4-time All-OAC honoree as an attacker on the men's lacrosse team, earning First Team kudos in 2016 and Second Team honors in 2018, 2019 and 2021.
He led ONU with 22 goals, 24 assists and 46 points this season.
Marous is ONU's all-time career leader with 140 goals, 110 assists and 250 points in 71 career games. He also ranks fourth-all time with 130 ground balls.
He was also named 3rd Team CoSIDA Google Cloud Academic All-America as a junior in 2019.
The men's lacrosse team posted its sixth consecutive winning season in the six-year history of the program in 2021 with an 8-6 overall mark. ONU was fourth in the OAC with a 6-3 record under sixth-year head coach Nat St. Laurent.
Leshnak named the Ohio Athletic Conference Defender of the Year for the third consecutive season this year. She is a four-time All-OAC pick (1st Team in 2018, 2019, 2020 and Honorable Mention in 2017) and is a two-time All-Great Lakes Region selection.
She was named to the NCAA Division III Scholar All-America team for 2020-21 by the United Soccer Coaches.
Leshnak has started all 78 matches in her career and has eight goals, six assists and 22 points from her defensive position.
The Polar Bear women's soccer team finished its 2020-21 season 8-1-2 overall and won the OAC Regular Season title with an 8-0-1 record under 17th-year head coach Mark Batman.
Criteria for the award includes 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.
The award was founded in 1985 and is named in honor of Clyde A. Lamb. Lamb organized the department of health and physical education at Ohio Northern University in 1929, and served as a coach, department chairman and athletics director at ONU from 1929-64. He continued to teach full-time until his death in 1969.
Lamb, who received his bachelor's degree from Coe College in 1923 and a master's degree from Columbia University in 1929, coached numerous sports at Ohio Northern during his tenure. In 1959, he was elected to the NAIA Helms Hall of Fame. He was honored as Ada's Distinguished Citizen in 1956 and was inducted into Ohio Northern's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1969.