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BAY CITY - Two Saginaw Valley State University student-athletes have earned Commissioner's Awards from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) for the winter season. Women's track & field student-athlete Anna Fochesato and women's basketball student-athlete Emily Wendling each earned the prestigious honor from the conference office, which highlights the athletes' performance both athletically and academically.
Fochesato continued her stellar career for the SVSU track & field program this indoor season for the Cardinals aside from her hard work in the classroom, where she maintains a 3.991 GPA as an accounting major at SVSU.
Anna claimed GLIAC Championships in both the high jump and triple jump at the 2016 GLIAC Indoor Track & Field Championships. The triple jump defender her indoor crown from the 2015 championships, where she was named the Field Athlete of the Year.
She continued her fine performances at the 2016 NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships, where she notched a pair of All-American honors to run her career tally to three total. Fochesato earned Second Team All-American honors in the high jump with an 11th place finish and was named a First Team All-American with a seventh place showing in the triple jump.
Wendling led the way for SVSU en route to the program claiming its first-ever GLIAC North Division Championship and only the second trip to the NCAA Division II Tournament for the Cardinals, where SV won just its second NCAA tournament game as well.
The 2015-16 GLIAC Player of the Year led the league in scoring with an 18.1 ppg average and in total field goals with 227. She was fourth in rebounding (9.3 rpg), field goal percentage (53.9) and free throw percentage (85.4%) as well. She posted 13 double-doubles along the way and scored 20+ points 14 different times. She went for a career-high 31 points twice in those 14. Emily surpassed the 1,000-point mark for her career and earned five GLIAC North Division Player of the Week awards this season.
Wendling racked-up the postseason honors as well for her outstanding 2015-16 campaign. She was named the D2CCA Midwest Region Player of the Year and made the All-Midwest Region First Team. She earned plenty of All-American honors as well, being named to the D2CCA and Women's Division II Bulletin All-American Second Teams and the WBCA Honorable Mention All-American squad. Emily maintains a 3.889 GPA as an occupational therapy major at SVSU.
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