Luke Miller, Chelsea Albert named Ohio Northern's Clyde Lamb Award winners for 2010-11

ADA — Ohio Northern seniors Luke Miller (Indiana, Pa.) and Chelsea Albert (Plain City/Dublin Scioto) have been named recipients of the prestigious 2010-11 Clyde Lamb Award.

The Clyde A. Lamb Awards are named in honor of the man who organized the Department of Health and Physical Education at Ohio Northern in 1929.

He served as coach, department chairman and athletics director at ONU from 1929-64.

Criteria for the award include at least two year's participation in an Ohio Athletic Conference-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/her institution.

Each of the league's 10 schools award the honor to their top male and female student-athletes.

Miller, a wrestler, is a three-time All-Americanand won the 2010 national title at 157 pounds, finished in third place with a 4-1 record in the 165-pound weight class at the 2011 NCAA Division III Championships.

He has also been named a Scholar All-America by the National Wrestling Coaches Association three times in his career.

Miller was also named First Team Capital One Academic All-District Men's At-Large for 2010-11 in voting conducted by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Miller (29-5) is just the second three-time All-American in ONU history, joining Joe Maiani (1996-98) with that distinction.

He finished fourth at the NCAA Championships as a sophomore in 2009 and won the title in 2010.

In four seasons as a Polar Bear, Miller has a 133-29 career record to tie the ONU all-time record of 133 wins set by 1989 national champion Vinny Cameron from 1986-89.

Albert, a midfielder on the ONU women's soccer team, was also named Third Team All-America by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America this year.

She is the first All-American in Ohio Northern women's soccer history.

Albert ended the season tied for third on the team in offense with 11 points on three goals and five assists.

She also helped anchor a defense that held opponents to just 16 goals.

This award is in addition to the laundry list of honors Albert has received this season.

This year alone, she was selected All-OAC First Team, Academic All-OAC, ESPN Academic All-District IV and NSCAA First Team All-Great Lakes region.

With a 13-6-1 overall record and a 7-1-1 mark in the conference, the women's soccer team posted its seventh consecutive winning season and also made another appearance in the Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament finals.