Student-Athlete Spotlight

Katie LaViolette | Senior Manitowoc, Wis.
LaViolette has been a leader on and off the basketball court. This season she became the school’s all-time leader in assists with 727. She leads the NSIC and is third in the NCAA in assists per game (8.56). Last season she became the first Academic All-American in women’s basketball and looks to repeat in 2008 with a 4.0 GPA in kinesiology. She is also the president of SAAC and is leading the school’s breast cancer awareness campaign.

Craig Heiman | Sophomore Marshall, Wis.
Heiman is the basketball team’s leading scorer and is second in the NSIC in scoring this year with averaging 17.4 points per game. He was twice named the NSIC Men’s Basketball Player of the Week and has scored in double-figures in all but two games. Heiman had a career-high 36 points against Upper Iowa and has led the team in scoring in 13 games.

Kawaskii Bacon | Junior Minneapolis, Minn.
Bacon has begun the 2008 indoor track season in a strong fashion. In 2007, he became the first Concordia athlete to qualify for two NCAA championship events (100m, 200m) during the outdoor season and has already provisionally qualified for the NCAA indoor championships in the 60m dash with a school-record 6.85. In two seasons at Concordia, Bacon has set four sprint records and is a member of three relay record teams.