Kate Brush from the women's swimming team and Dylan Wells from the men's lacrosse team were named recipients of the annual Laura Golden and Van Diest awards, respectively, as Colorado College's top female and male student-athletes among the 2023 graduating class.
    
The awards were presented on Tuesday, May 16, during the school's honors convocation.
    
Brush earned three All-America honors at CC, including two this season at the 2023 NCAA Division III Championships. She claimed a first-team All-America nod with an eighth-place finish in the 100 butterfly and a second-team selection with a ninth-place finish in the 200 butterfly. Brush is first female swimmer in school history to be an All-American in multiple events in the same year and the second to earn the honor in multiple years.
 
The senior from Greenwich, Ct., captured six Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference individual titles, including three this season in the 500 freestyle, 100 butterfly and 200 butterfly. She set the SCAC open record in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:02.13 and currently holds five school records.
 
Brush has a 3.78 grade-point average with a double major in art and economics. She is a two-time CSCAA Scholar All-American and a member of the SCAC Honor Roll all four years at Colorado College.

Wells, meanwhile, led the Tigers to the NCAA Division III Championships each of the last three years, including a trip to the Elite Eight in 2021. A two-time team captain, he was an All-SCAC and All-Region selection as a sophomore and a first-team all-HCLC selection this season.
 
The senior from Greenwood Village, Colo., finished fourth on the team with 30 points (16g,14a) this season and capped his career with 63 points (41g,22a).
 
Wells has a 3.84 grade-point average majoring in economics and was a two-time member of the SCAC Honor Roll. 
 
The Laura Golden Award originated in 1981 in honor of the late women's basketball coach and 1995 CC Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, and has been awarded every year thereafter except for 1982 and 1995. The Van Diest Award, named after former Colorado College trustee and local civic leader Edmond C. Van Diest, has been presented annually since 1936.
 
Several other Colorado College athletes received an all-campus award on Tuesday:
 
Kendall Accetta (women's cross country / track and field) – Adelaide Bender Reville James Yaffe Prize for Fiction First Place
 
Kate Brush (women's swimming) – Outstanding Senior Thesis in Museum Studies
 
Mason Davis (men's soccer) – Robert William Kaye Prize; Outstanding economics major with strong performance in business courses and Kenneth J. and Elizabeth Hare Curran Award for Economics and Business
 
Charlotte Furman (women's cross country / track and field) – Edith Bramhall Award for Political Science

Mac O'Brien (men's diving) - J. Glenn Gray Award for Philosophy
 
Jacob Shichman (men's track and field) – Outstanding Senior Thesis in Architecture and Integrative Design
 
Jacob Smith (men's lacrosse) – Kenneth J. and Elizabeth Hare Curran Award for Economics and Business
 
Ashlyn Walker (women's cross country / track and field) – Julia E. and Kenneth G Bower Family Award in Chemistry and Biochemistry
 
Dylan Wells (men's lacrosse) – Felisa Llorente Award for Spanish
 
Dafna Williams (women's cross country / track and field) - Abel J. and Lucy Phinney Gregg Award.
 
Emerson Worrell (men's cross country) - Florian Cajori Award for Mathematics and Computer Science
 
Ray Christy (hockey), Lauryn Pfrommer-Pease (women's diving), Tony Saenz (men's swimming), Eric Uerling (men's swimming) and Olivia Xerras (women's basketball) - Crown-Goodman Presidential Scholarship; The selection of recipients is based on the students' academic record and contributions.