Amanda Waugh

Classroom

Waugh carries a 3.63 grade point average as an integrative public relations major and media design minor. The soccer team has posted the highest GPA in the nation every year she has been on the squad. She was named to the CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine District IV third team and was an Academic All-MAC selection for the first time following her junior season.

Character

Waugh has served as a team captain since her sophomore year. She took a more active role off the field in managing team conflicts in her junior year. She also helped plan team events and organize travel and lodging itineraries. She took all the visiting recruits on tours and provided them with a place to stay for the night. She served as a team liaison to answer questions recruits and their parents had after camps. She served as the team’s public face again when she delivered a speech to administrators and community members on what it means to be a student-athlete. She recently was awarded the 2009 Boyden Award winner. The Boyden Award recipient is selected each spring from among those applicants who are varsity letterwinners and will be in their final year of eligibility the following fall. The award is not primarily an academic one. Instead, it singles out a senior-to-be of satisfactory academic standing whose record best combines participation in a varsity intercollegiate sport with leadership ability in campus affairs and activities, interests or accomplishments in the arts and community involvement.

Community

Waugh helped start a non-profit organization called Student-Athletes Leading Social Change (SALSC) this summer. She designed the logo and organization slogan and participated in conference calls during the summer as a member of the selection committee to select members of their leadership board. Her responsibilities include preparing a proposal for consideration in the group. Her proposal is launching an initiative to help provide underprivileged families access to sports through charity. Through the organization, she is trying to help CMU raise enough money for her to go to Africa to help build schools and health care buildings next summer. She helped create an annual breast cancer fundraiser for her team and created a tribute page on the American Cancer Society’s Web site in honor of her best friend and teammate’s deceased mother.

Competition

Waugh enters her senior campaign ranked fifth on Central Michigan’s career goal list with 17 tallies. She has 43 career points, which ranks sixth in program history. She was named first team All-MAC in 2008 after scoring eight goals and adding six assists for a team-high 22 points. Her point total was the second highest in the conference and was the fifth-most points recorded in one season at CMU. She registered 17 points (fourth in the MAC) on seven goals (second) and three assists as a sophomore.