PBC YEARBOOK
Year-End Honors
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Columbus State’ s Edwards, Rolling Named PBC Scholar Athletes of the Year
HILTON HEAD, SC – Columbus State University baseball infielder Blake Edwards and women’ s soccer defender Shelby Rolling were named the PBC Scholar Athletes of the Year at the leagues’ year-end awards dinner on Tuesday in Hilton Head. It is the first time since 2006 that one school has had both the men’ s and women’ s honorees and only the third time overall in the 25-year history of the award.
The award is the highest individual honor given by the PBC to a student-athlete during the year and is selected by the league’ s Faculty Athletic Representatives.
Blake Edwards graduated this May with a degree in business administration carrying a 3.88 GPA. From Zebulon, Ga., he was named to the PBC Presidential Honor Roll four times, PBC baseball All-Academic three times, won the PBC Elite 15 Award twice and is a CoSIDA Academic All-American. He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Societies and spearheaded the CSU baseball teams’ community projects including House of Heroes, Habitat for Humanity and the Vs. Cancer Foundation.
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On the field, Edwards was named first-team All-Conference in 2016 at third base. He led the PBC in total hits with 96 and was ranked in the league’ s top 10 in runs, doubles, total bases and defensive assists. A Rawlings National Gold Glove winner, he hit. 387 with nine home runs and 53 RBIs as the Cougars won both the PBC regular-season and tournament championships and were the host of the NCAA Southeast Regional Tournament.
Edwards becomes the second Cougar to win the male Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, joining former golfer Chad Andrae who was among a trio of winners in 2001.
Shelby Rolling graduated this May with a degree in Health Science and a 3.966 cumulative GPA. From Stayner, Ontario, Canada, she was named a CoSIDA Academic All-American this year, named to Who’ s Who and inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. Named to the PBC Presidential Honor Roll four times, she graduated with honors from CSU and was named the Outstanding Health Science Student for 2015.
On the field, Rolling guided the women’ s soccer team to their first appearance in the NCAA National Championship game last fall. The
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