ST. LOUIS – For the first time in his career, sophomore thrower Logan Calvin has been selected as the Missouri Valley Conference Male Field Athlete of the Week, the league announced Tuesday afternoon.
This award marks the ninth weekly honor for the Redbirds this season, the most among all Valley institutions. In addition, Illinois State has now had at least one student-athlete recognized in six of the seven possible weeks, joining Southern Illinois as the only other school to accomplish the feat.
Calvin has been knocking on the door of receiving a weekly award for the entire 2018-19 campaign, and his hard work was finally rewarded after capturing a pair of lifetime personal-bests in the shot put and weight throw at Wisconsin's Badger Red & White Classic.