Every student athlete has been named Skyhawk of the Week for the last issue.

Since school started in August, through fall, Christmas, and spring breaks, you’ve been giving up your free time to go out and represent UTM.

You have stayed in when everyone was going out. You went to places like Millington for spring break while your friends were on the beaches of Fla. Some of you will stay in Martin, playing your respective sports even after classes have ended, sacrificing part of your summer vacation.

Some of you will come back early for summer work outs to prepare yourselves for the upcoming season.

Even though there have been some rough spots, you have given us countless hours of entertainment and memories that some of us will hold for rest of our lives.

Congratulations on every win that you have picked up over the school year. Some of them were milestones and others were just memorable: football’s first road win in 35 games and first ever victory over EIU; volleyball’s four game OVC winning streak at midseason; soccer picking up the big win on senior day; cross country runners breaking school records on a regular basis; women’s basketball making it back to the OVC tourney; men’s basketball defeating the OVC leading team on senior night; golf finishing with their best OVC placing in six years; rifle keeping their national rankings up for the 22nd year; rodeo excelling as they always do; baseball picking up it’s first 3-game sweep since 2003; softball taking it’s first series against Tech in four years; men’s tennis defeating Murray in the last home match to get in the OVC tourney; and obviously the women’s tennis team winning the OVC tournament.

You all put in more hours than we understand and for that you should all be awarded every week for what you do, no matter what the records may be.