NORMAL, Ill. – Joe Aeilts and Courtney Pence were named Illinois State's Athletes of the Year, while Michael Sebby and Kate Del Fava were named Scholar-Athletes of the Year, Sunday night at The Reggies, as Illinois State celebrated the success of its student-athletes during the 2018-19 academic year at the annual academic excellence awards ceremony, sponsored by State Farm.
Aeilts, a standout member of Illinois State's 2019 Missouri Valley Conference Baseball Championship team and MVC Joe Carter Player of the Year, was named the Milt Weisbecker Male Athlete of the Year. The Jill Hutchison Female Athlete of the Year honor went to Pence, who became the Redbird volleyball program's first repeat AVCA All-American, earning back-to-back honorable mentions in 2017 and 2018.