LEXINGTON, Va. -- The Washington and Lee Department of Athletics held a virtual Athletics Awards Ceremony on Thursday evening to honor the student-athletes and administrators who excelled during the truncated 2019-20 school year.
 
Headlining the awardees were seniors Caitlin Anderson (Manhasset, N.Y. / Manhasset) and Brian Peccie (Norfolk, Va. / Norfolk Academy), who were selected as the "Pres" Brown Outstanding Senior Female and Senior Male Athletes of the Year as voted on by members of the department.
 
A four-year starter and team captain this year, Anderson completed her tremendous lacrosse career by earning First Team All-America honors for the second straight season.  The defender completed her career with 146 draw controls, 124 ground balls, 63 caused turnovers and one assist in 61 career games played.  She finished sixth in program history for draw controls and likely would have finished Top 10 in both ground balls and caused turnovers had the season not been cut short.  She was named the IWLCA National Defensive Player of the Week for the week ending March 10, helping lead the Generals to a 5-1 record and a No. 4 national ranking this spring.
 
A three-time All-ODAC selection, Anderson also earned the ODAC's Defensive Player of the Year Award in 2019.  She helped lead W&L to three ODAC titles and three berths to the NCAA Tournament, including a trip to the NCAA Final Four as a first-year in 2017.
 
Peccie was a four-year letterwinner and two-year captain for the golf team.  He finished his four seasons as one of the most decorated players in program history.  A three-time All-American, including a two-time first-team selection, he won the 2018 NCAA Division III National Championship and finished the season as the No. 1 ranked golfer in Division III.  He earned the Division III Arnold Palmer Award that season and he was a finalist for the Division III Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year Award in 2019.
 
Peccie won four tournaments during his career, shooting just two rounds with a score greater than 80.  His 73.23 career scoring average is a program record, and he holds the three lowest season scoring averages in program history, highlighted by a 72.18 average during the 2019-20 school year.
 
He earned First Team All-ODAC honors each of his first three seasons and was a four-time All-South Region honoree.  He was named the 2018 ODAC Player of the Year and he was the VaSID Player of the Year in both 2018 and 2019.
 
Peccie was also awarded the William D. McHenry Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award, while senior swimmer Emily Hageboeck (Charleston, W.Va. / George Washington) was tabbed the William D. McHenry Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.  Lacrosse player Allie Schwab (Bryn Mawr, Pa. / Harriton) and soccer player Samuel Bass (Charlotte, N.C. / Myers Park) received the W&L Outstanding First-Year Female and Male Athlete Awards, while senior football and track & field athlete Jimmie Johnson (Hoover, Ala. / Hoover) was presented the Wink Glasgow Spirit & Sportsmanship Award.
 
An economics and mathematics double-major, Peccie also claims an impressive list of academic accomplishments to his athletic credentials.  A member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Mu Epsilon, Omicron Delta Epislon and Phi Eta Sigma, he is a two-time Cleveland Golf/Srixon Scholar All-American and he was a 2019 CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American.  He is also a two-time winner of the ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award.
 
Hageboeck earned four letters with the swimming team, garnering 14 total All-America citations across her four seasons.  She qualified for the NCAA Swimming Championship all four years and she completed her career having never lost a dual meet race in the 200 breaststroke.  Individually, she won nine ODAC Championship races and she added eight more conference titles as a member of various relay teams.  She owns school and ODAC records in the 100 and 200 breaststroke and 400 individual medley, and she holds school and ODAC records as part of the 200 and 400 medley relays.
 
The accounting major is a four-year All-ODAC honoree and a three-time ODAC Swimmer of the Year.  Academically, she is a three-time CSCAA Scholar All-American and a 2019 CoSIDA Third Team Academic All-American.  She is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi and is a three-year recipient of the ODAC/Farm Bureau Insurance Women's Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award.
 
Schwab played just six games for the lacrosse team this spring, but made a significant impact as a midfield starter from the opening game.  She finished second on the team in scoring with 21 points on 14 goals and seven assists.  Her scoring was essential in the team's toughest games, as she had three goals and one assist against 12th-ranked Mary Washington, three goals at third-ranked Franklin & Marshall, three goals and one assist against sixth-ranked Gettysburg and three goals and one assist against seventh-ranked Salisbury.
 
Bass started all 23 games in the midfield for the soccer team, helping lead the Generals to the "Sweet 16" of the NCAA Tournament.  He tied for second on the team in scoring with 18 points on six goals and six assists.  Two of his goals were game-winners and he tallied at least one point in eight games and had five multi-point performances.  He was named First Team All-ODAC and Second Team All-South Region by the United Soccer Coaches.
 
Johnson earned a total of six letters across his football and track & field seasons.  In football, he played 37 career games as a running back, carrying 64 times for 427 yards and four touchdowns.  He also caught 10 passes for 176 yards and one touchdown and added 13 tackles, to go along with five kickoff returns for an average of 20.4 yards per return.  In track & field, he was a two-time All-ODAC honoree and was part of the third-place finishing 4x400 relay at 2020 Indoor ODAC Championship.
 
Other awards that were presented on Thursday included the J.L. Lefty Newell Award for the top student manager/worker and the R.E. Chub Yeakel Award, which is given to a member of the University community who has made outstanding contributions to the Department of Athletics.  Senior basketball manager Whitley Drinkard was the recipient of the Lefty Newell Award, while former coach Jeff Stickley was presented the Chub Yeakel Award.  Juniors Jacob and Lucas Flood were voted to receive the Dick Miller Physical Education Award.

Washington and Lee's 24 varsity athletics teams combined to win seven conference titles and produced a 174-61-5 (.733) overall record during the 2019-20 school year.