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Cornell honors Jepson, Tierney, Stiles at Homecoming C-Club Breakfast

MOUNT VERNON — Cornell recognized senior student-athletes Amanda Jepson (Wayland/WACO) and Michael Tierney (Cedar Rapids/Jefferson) and 1950 graduate Lynn “Bear” Stiles at its annual C-Club Breakfast Oct. 11 during homecoming weekend.

Jepson and Tierney were recipients of the Paul Maaske Award, which recognizes the male and female athletes, who in their academic junior year, lettered in two or more sports and accumulated the highest grade point average. Stiles was named Cornell’s Alumni C-Club Coach of the Year.

Jepson, who owns a 3.86 cumulative GPA, is a four-year letterwinner in cross country and a three-year letterwinner in track and field. She is majoring in exercise science with a minor in biology. Jepson has been on the Dean’s List every semester at Cornell and earned academic all-Iowa Conference honors in cross country three years and track and field two years. She currently serves as president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). Jepson was recipient of the Margaret Cook Award last year in the Kinesiology Department, where she is a research assistant.  

Tierney, who holds a 3.37 GPA, is a three-year letterwinner in basketball and two-year letterwinner in baseball. He is majoring in secondary education and kinesiology. Tierney was named second team all-Iowa Conference in basketball (point guard) in 2007-08. He was also selected second team all-IIAC in baseball (outfield) last spring. 

Stiles and his wife, honorary alumna Sally Stiles, formed the Youth Sports Foundation (YSF) in 1996 in Muscatine with three local tackle football teams and 58 players in fifth and sixth grades. The YSF has grown exponentially, currently with 186 teams and 4,500 kids participating in programs over a 500-mile area that covers central and eastern Iowa and western Illinois. The organization has added girls’ volleyball, coed track and field and coed golf.
 
Because of their efforts founding the YSF, the Stileses were inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame in 2005 in Boise, Idaho. Stiles was a three-sport athlete at Cornell. He set the school record in the shot put in track and field, played center in football and occasionally wrestled heavyweight. He was a member on Cornell’s 1947 NCAA and AAU national championship wrestling team. Stiles majored in business administration with a minor in physical education and coaching.