Dec. 8, 2014
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Auburn men’s golf signee Mark Lawrence received the Student-Athlete of the Year award from the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame & Museum during its 10th Annual Student-Athlete Achievement Awards Banquet on Sunday.
Lawrence, a Richmond, Va., native who is a senior at Mills Godwin High School, has a 3.4 GPA and was a three-time VHSL State High School Champion and a two-time VSGA Junior Match Play Champion. He was the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Amateur Champion and was the Valentine Invitational Champion.
Lawrence is ranked as the 57th best prospect in the nation by the National Golf Scoreboard while having a 71.35 stroke average in 2014. He participated in the annual Scouting for Food project supporting the Central Virginia Food Bank as a member of the Boy Scouts.
The event honored some of the state’s great student-athletes nominated by their coaches and administrators at the high school level. Students who are the well-rounded in the categories of athletic achievement, academic achievement and civic involvement are chosen as winners by the selection committee consisting of Hall of Fame Inductees and board members.
Olympic Gold Medalist and Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2011 inductee Jeff Rouse was the motivational speaker and helped present the finalists with their awards. The winners will be honored with an exhibit in the museum’s rotating exhibit “Virginians in the Spotlight” during the months of January and February 2015. This event was made possible through funding of generous sponsors: Cox Communications, Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., Riesbeck Contracting, Roger Brown’s Restaurant and the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame & Museum’s Education Foundation.
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