Lenoir-Rhyne's Brown and Mars Hill's Plougmand Named 2024-25 SAC Male and Female Athletes of the Year

ROCK HILL, S.C. (TheSAC.com) – Lenoir-Rhyne's Alexis Brown and Mars Hill's Peter Plougmand have been named the 2024-25 South Atlantic Conference Male and Female Athletes of the Year the league announced today. The Male and Female Athlete of the Year awards are selected by a vote of the league's athletic directors.

Brown, a junior from Mableton, Ga., earns her second straight SAC Female Athlete of the Year honor. She earned Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year honors earlier this year. 

She became the first woman in NCAA Division II history to go under 11 seconds legally in the 100-meter dash, running a wind-legal (+1.8) time of 10.93 to win an Outdoor National Championship. This is the fastest collegiate time of the season and the second-fastest time in the world this year.

Her second national championship of the outdoor season came in the 200m where she blazed a time of 22.37 seconds, winning by nearly half a second. This marked her first outdoor 200 meter national title after winning three on the indoor stage.

She also earned All-American honors in the 4x100 meter relay as the team finished seventh with a time of 45.28.

During Indoor Track and Field, she took home the National Championship in the 200m and was the National Runner-Up in the 60m. 

All told, she won four SAC Championships this year and has eight national championships in her career to go with being a 14-time All-American and holding three NCAA Division II records.

Plougmand, a senior from Odense, Denmark, was named the D2CCA Ron Lenz National Player of the Year and became the first men's soccer player in Mars Hill history to earn that award as well as the first to be named First Team All-America. He is the second player in MHU men's soccer history to earn All-American honors and the second SAC player to earn National Player of the Year honors.

Plougmand also earned SAC and Regional Player of the Year as well as being named CSC First Team Academic All-America. He led the nation with 25 goals scored and 56 points and was the only player in SAC history to be named Offensive Player of the Week four times in a single season. He led the Lions to an NCAA Tournament berth and a first round win over Francis Marion.

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