ELMHURST, Ill.-Oral Roberts University's Juliana Moser (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Oakland University's Myke Thom (Monroe, Mich.) have been named the 2000 Mid-Continent Conference Female and Male Scholar-Athletes of the Year, it was announced by Commissioner Dr. Jon A. Steinbrecher. This is the single highest honor bestowed by the conference. The award honors outstanding academic achievement, athletic achievement, attitude and leadership of the male and female student-athletes as selected by the league's Faculty Athletics Representatives. Moser becomes the first female athlete to earn the Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award twice as she earned the award in 1999 as well. A four-year starter for the three-time Mid-Con Regular-Season and Tournament Champion Oral Roberts' volleyball team, Moser has dominated Mid-Con volleyball. Over the last three years she led ORU to a 81-29 record with only one loss against Mid-Con opponents. She has been named Mid-Con Volleyball Player of the Year and Tournament Most Valuable Player all three years, as well as being named Mid-Con Player of the Week 10 times and Female Student-Athlete of the Month twice. A two-time captain, Moser is ORU's career leader in kills, blocks and holds several ORU season records. Academically, Moser holds a cumulative GPA of 3.83 and is a three-time Academic All-Conference member majoring in International Business and French. In the 1999-2000 school year she was named ORU's School of Business Female Student Leader of the Year, French Department Outstanding Student of the Year and was named to the GTE Academic All-America District Team. She is a also a member of both the ORU Honor Society and the Phi Delta Pi French Honor Society. "There is no student who better represents the ideals of Oral Roberts University which encourage students to maximize their potential physically, mentally and spiritually," said Oral Roberts Faculty Athletics Representative Terry Unruh. "There is no doubt that Juliana's athletic and academic accomplishments have distinguished her as one of ORU's all-time greatest student-athletes and that she will continue to represent our university with pride and distinction as she graduates." A four-year letter winner on Oakland's men's basketball team, Thom has received almost all the honors that the Oakland campus can bestow on a student. A team captain for the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 season, Thom led the men's basketball team to the Mid-Con Regular Season Title in just its first official Division I season. In 1999, Thom received the Arthur Ashe Junior Sports Scholarship Award given to 37 athletes nationwide considering leadership on and off the playing fields and last summer he was a representative at the NCAA Leadership Conference. Academically, Thom posts a 3.69 cumulative grade-point average, majoring in Biology. He was named to the Basketball Coaches Association of Michigan Academic Honor Team given to those student-athletes in Michigan with outstanding academic records and he is a nominee for the NCAA Academic All-American Team and for the USA Today All-American Academic Team. Among many other awards, Thom received Oakland's most prestigious award, the Alfred G. Wilson award, annually given to one student who exemplifies student involvement and leadership on the Oakland campus. "Myke has succeeded in the classroom, as a student leader and as an active participant in the community. In addition he has been an anchor for our athletes as our program has made the transition from Division II to Division I," said Oakland Faculty Athletics Representative Bill Macauley. "With students like Mike leading the way, those on our campus who might have been skeptical about the enhancement have become ardent supporters of our intercollegiate sports programs."