Top 15 college athletes in Marquette for 2015-16 (any sport)

[bamamarquettefan]

http://bestreturningcollegehoops.blogspot.com/2015/06/wisconsin.html

I just started up state pages to compile the votes on "best 2015-16 athlete in the state" that have been coming back from a fax I did to all newspapers and TV.

I'm not trying to do a Kansas City Royals here and "stuff the box" with MUScoop voters - but if you do follow state sports beyond MU Hoops and want to submit a Top 10 for us to add to the tally that is great.

I already had a pretty rabid and well known Badgers fan reply to me just to say he really liked the setup, but interested in feedback from those who really watch sports.

If any of you have watched the soccer team or any others and believe a player from one of the non-revenue sports deserve a place on a ballot feel free. When I started Breitbart Sports a few years back, I ranked the 2012 Marquette Women's Soccer team as the 79th best team in any sport.

http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2012/12/31/top-100-college-teams-of-2012/

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Wally over all of these people. Probably the only Olympic athlete of the bunch.

[Skatastrophy]

Does this include guys in their mid 30s? Because if so I'd like to submit myself.

[drewm88]

Does this include guys in their mid 30s? Because if so I'd like to submit myself.

Ners?

[Galway Eagle]

Is this just athletes for the ncaa? Because don't we have two Olympic speed skaters? And there's a boxer who just graduated this year who will likely end up on the Olympic team (not me).

[keefe]

Does this include guys in their mid 30s? Because if so I'd like to submit myself.

I played club baseball and had a Strat-O-Matic team so I guess I was a two-letterman

[GooooMarquette]

Ners?

Vote early and often for Ners!

[PBRme]

I was at canoe races and the 4 man (we were somewhat sexist back then) barrel race

[bamamarquettefan]

Anyone is fine from Olympics etc., and certainly Wally a legit No. 1 option. I mainly didn't want to have Packers, Bucks and Brewers as that is really a separate kind of poll and obviously Aaron Rodgers etc. would quickly dominate that voting.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Anyone is fine from Olympics etc., and certainly Wally a legit No. 1 option. I mainly didn't want to have Packers, Bucks and Brewers as that is really a separate kind of poll and obviously Aaron Rodgers etc. would quickly dominate that voting.

so Ners illustrious HS career is a no-go then?

[JakeBarnes]

I vote President Lovell. Dude was booking it at the Pleasant Prairie Tri on Sunday. Passed me like I was a chump.

[Galway Eagle]

Anyone is fine from Olympics etc., and certainly Wally a legit No. 1 option. I mainly didn't want to have Packers, Bucks and Brewers as that is really a separate kind of poll and obviously Aaron Rodgers etc. would quickly dominate that voting.

Emery Lehman is an Olympic ice skater goes to Marquette

Luis Arias is a professional boxer out of mayweathers gym went to MU can't remember if he graduated

Luis feliciano just graduated MU and is one of the top ranked amateur boxers in the country trying to get to the Olympic team currently.

Brian Hansen is also an Olympic speed skater. Went to MU don't know if he graduated or what.

[SoCalEagle]

Emery Lehman is an Olympic ice skater goes to Marquette

Luis Arias is a professional boxer out of mayweathers gym went to MU can't remember if he graduated

Luis feliciano just graduated MU and is one of the top ranked amateur boxers in the country trying to get to the Olympic team currently.

Brian Hansen is also an Olympic speed skater. Went to MU don't know if he graduated or what.

Reminds me of the Palomino v Muniz fight:

On January 21, 1977, boxers Carlos Palomino and Armando Muniz made boxing history. The WBC welterweight clash was the first world title fight between two college graduates. This led Los Angeles Times columnist Jim Murray to describe the bout as "boxing's finest intellectual hour since George Bernard Shaw wrote to Gene Tunney." Palomino won the fight thanks to two knockdowns and a knockout in the last round.

Palomino had recently earned a degree in Recreation Administration at Long Beach State, while Muniz had a Spanish degree from California State Los Angeles and was studying for an Administration graduate degree. Fortunately, both athletes had ignored advice to concentrate on boxing, with Palomino holding that "athletic careers are pretty short and I'd still have a whole life ahead of me."

Despite their schooling, the fighters' boxing abilities seemed unaffected. What's more, their 1977 meeting is remembered as one of the best bouts of that year. Palomino went on to win the 1978 rematch, as well – but both men will be remembered for together challenging the stereotype that boxers lack brains.

[bamamarquettefan]

Emery Lehman is an Olympic ice skater goes to Marquette

Luis Arias is a professional boxer out of mayweathers gym went to MU can't remember if he graduated

Luis feliciano just graduated MU and is one of the top ranked amateur boxers in the country trying to get to the Olympic team currently.

Brian Hansen is also an Olympic speed skater. Went to MU don't know if he graduated or what.

These are all awesome! Thanks.

[MUBaseball3]

Emery Lehman is an Olympic ice skater goes to Marquette

Luis Arias is a professional boxer out of mayweathers gym went to MU can't remember if he graduated

Luis feliciano just graduated MU and is one of the top ranked amateur boxers in the country trying to get to the Olympic team currently.

Brian Hansen is also an Olympic speed skater. Went to MU don't know if he graduated or what.

Brian put college on hold after Sophomore year to focus on the Sochi Olympics. He hasn't gone back to school yet.

[GooooMarquette]

Brian put college on hold after Sophomore year to focus on the Sochi Olympics. He hasn't gone back to school yet.

If this article is correct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Hansen_(speed_skater)), he transferred to Colorado.   

[ecc5051]

Emery Lehman will be a sophomore at MU in the fall.

He has dominated his sport of speed skating at the national level.
In his senior year of high school, Lehman won the 10000 meters at the 2013–2014 US Senior Championship/Olympic Trials and took second place in the 5000 meters. At the Olympics, he placed 16th in the 5000 meters and 10th in the 10000 meters. He was the top finishing speed skater and youngest American at the Olympic Games.

As of 2014, Lehman holds three national junior speed skating records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery_Lehman

[4everwarriors]

F*ckin' earned 3 varsity letters in muck divin', ai na?

[Tugg Speedman]

Brian put college on hold after Sophomore year to focus on the Sochi Olympics. He hasn't gone back to school yet.

Hansen won a silver medal in the team pursuit along in 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, won a two medals in the World Single Distance Championships and two medals (one silver, one bronze) at the World Junior Championships.

So yes an MU student has won an Olympic medal in the last 6 years.