April 6, 2015 DeKALB, Ill. - Each week, NIU honors two student-athletes that exemplify the concept of the "student-athlete" supremely well. These students excel both in the classroom and on the playing field. This week, the honorees are Carlos Manzanas of men's tennis and Emily Naegele from softball.

These two Huskies have been nominated to the MAC for the league's Scholar Athlete of the Week award, which NIU student-athletes have won nine times during the 2014-15 season, tied for the most in the conference.

NIU Scholar-Athletes of the Week (March 30 to April 5)
Carlos Manzanas	Emily Naegele
MALE RECIPIENT	FEMALE RECIPIENT
Sport: Men's Tennis	Sport: Softball
Year: Sophomore	Year: Junior
Position: 	Position: Catcher
GPA: 4.0	GPA: 3.93
Major: Mechanical Engineering	Major: Pre-Physical Therapy
Week's Achievements: Carlos Manzanas won a trio of matches last weekend, defeating both of his singles opponents against Ball State and IPFW and also picking up a doubles win against IPFW. The sophomore Spaniard defeated Collin Rigney of Ball State 6-2, 6-1 on Saturday in a MAC matchup. Then on Sunday, Manzanas swept aside Daniel Cardenas 6-1, 6-2 and teamed up with Louis-Philippe Hamel to win a doubles match, helping the Huskies earn a solid 5-2 team win against IPFW. Manzanas now owns an impressive 13-3 singles record this spring.	Week's Achievements: Emily Naegele was phenomenal at the plate during the Huskies' 3-1 weekend against Bowling Green and Toledo. In four games, the junior catcher hit .583 with seven hits, two home runs, four runs scored and 13 runs batted in, in addition to a .667 on-base percentage and a 1.083 slugging percentage. In Friday's doubleheader against BGSU, Naegele had a two-run single in the Huskies' 5-3 win in game one. She then plated three runs and had two hits in the second game. On Saturday against Toledo, Naegele hit a game-tying home run in the sixth inning before hitting a game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the seventh to help NIU to a 6-5 walk-off win. Her hot hitting continued on Easter Sunday with a grand slam in NIU's 14-5 five-inning win, the first by a Huskie since Ashley Kopp did so on March 29, 2013. NIU now leads the MAC West with a 5-1 league record.
Previous Honorees
Week of March 23-March 29
Joo-Young Lee	Jessica Sturm
Week of March 16-March 22
Justin Fletcher	Nelle Youel - Won MAC Award
Week of Spring Break
Tony Brandner	Amanda Stepp
Week of March 2-March 8
Anthony Johnson	Megan Greenfield
Week of February 23-March 1
Simon Formont- Won MAC Award	Julianne Cronin
Week of February 16-February 22
Frederic Cadieux	Amanda Stepp
Week of February 9-February 15
Brian Sisler	Samantha Coyne
Week of February 2-February 8
Simon Formont	Amanda Corral- Won MAC Award
Week of January 26-February 1
Anthony Johnson	Amanda Corral
Week of January 19-January 25
Simon Formont- Won MAC Award	Nelle Youel- Won MAC Award
Week of January 12-January 18
Anthony Johnson	Jenna Thorp
Week of January 5-January 11
Anthony Johnson	Amanda Stepp
Weeks of Winter Break
Anthony Johnson	Amanda Corral
Week of December 2-December 8
Drew Hare- Won MAC Award	Sidra Sherrill
Week of November 25-December 1
Jason Meehan	Amanda Corral
Week of November 18-November 24
Akeem Daniels	Jenna Radtke
Week of November 11-November 17
Andrew Morse	Mackenzie Roddy
Week of November 4-November 10
Ryan Brown	Mary Grace Kelly
Week of October 28-November 3
Richard Hall	Alex Elias
Week of October 21-October 27
Drew Hare	Nicole Gobbo
Week of October 14-October 20
Rob Sterling	Emily Paschke
Week of October 7-October 13
Andrew Glaeser	Mackenzie Roddy- Won MAC Award
Week of September 30-October 6
Sean Folliard	Jess Wooldridge
Week of September 23-September 29
Bertrand Gaschot	Gwen Sabo
Week of September 16-September 22
Simon Formont	Lauren Zielinksi
Week of September 9-September 15
Bertrand Gaschot	Connie Ellett
Week of September 2-September 8
Drew Hare- Won MAC Award	Allie McBride
Week of August 27-September 1
Akeem Daniels	Mackenzie Roddy- Won MAC Award