APPLETON, Wis. -- Lawrence University track and cross country standout Jess Moser was recently chosen as the winner of the 2003 Ruth Peterson Award.
This award is given by the Midwest Conference to a female athlete lettering in at least two sports with the highest grade point average during her junior year. Moser, a senior biology major from Glen Ellyn, Ill., had a 4.0 GPA as a junior and has a 3.85 cumulative GPA.
She is the daughter of Janet and Michael Moser.
Moser recently completed the cross country season and finished 21st at the conference championships. She competes in a variety of sprints and relays for the track team and is part of three relays that hold school records. She is on the record-setting indoor and outdoor 1,600-meter relays team and the indoor distance medley relay squad.
The award is named after Ruth Peterson, the former commissioner of the Midwest Athletic Conference for Women and former co-commissioner of the Midwst Conference.
The conference gives an identical award for a male athlete named for Roy LeClere, a sports enthusiast who had a devotion to Midwest Conference athletics. The LeClere Award winner was Carroll College's Mike Poremba, a history major who participates in football and track.
Founded in 1847, Lawrence University has produced seven Rhodes Scholars and was again named one of the country's "best national liberal arts colleges" by U.S. News and World Report in its 2003-04 Guide to American Colleges.