CRAIG PADGETT
GoSycamores.com
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Senior Kelly Steffen was honored this week, as she was a recipient of the MVC Leadership and Service Winter Award along with nine other student athletes in the Missouri Valley Conference.
The honor highlights student-athletes that have good academic standing, must demonstrate good citizenship through good sportsmanship and significant community service, and must participate in a sport, during the season of recognition. The Valley will recognize 10 student-athletes three times annually (fall, winter, spring), for a total of 30 honorees. Institutions select their MVC Leadership & Service Award honorees.
Steffen fit this description very well, as she holds a 4.0 GPA in Math Education. She also has a very lengthy list of accomplishments in her time at Indiana State University including:
- Member of the Indiana State All-Academic Team (Fall 2011-Spring 2012 and Fall 2012-Spring 2013)
- USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic Team (Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
- MVC Elite 18 Award recipient for Indoor Track and Field (2013)
- Richard Landini Outstanding Junior Award which honors outstanding achievement, service and living up to the ideals and values of the University (Spring 2013)
- Sycamore Scholar-Athlete of the Month (February 2013)
- Athletic Director's Honor Roll (Spring 2011-Fall 2013)
- Member of the University Honors Program (Fall 2010-Spring 2014)
- Member of Golden Key International Honor Society (Fall 2012-Spring 2014)
- Member of Alpha Lambda Delta (Spring 2011)
- Group leader at ISU's Christian Student Fellowship (Fall 2012-Spring 2014)
- Member of CSF (Fall 2010-Spring 2014)
- Vice President of SAAC (Fall 2013-Spring 2014)
- Member of SAAC (Fall 2012-Spring 2014)
- Academic mentor of student-athletes (Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
- Helped plan and participated in the student-athlete talent show to raise money for the Lighthouse mansion (Fall 2013)
- Made tie-blankets to donate to a local shelter (Fall 2013)
- Counselor for track and field day camp (Summer 2013)
- President of the Indiana State Sycamores Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Fall 2012-Spring 2013)
- Member of ISSCTM (Fall 2011-Spring 2013)
- Mathematics tutor (Fall 2012-Spring 2014)
- Helped plan and run Parent's Night Out to raise money for March of Dimes (Spring 2013)
- Helped plan and participate in student-athlete talent show to raise money for Habitat for Humanity (Fall 2011 and Fall 2012)
- Participated in Wabash Valley Race for the Cure (Fall 2012)
- Participated in the Wabashaki Riverside cleanup (Spring 2011)
