Fall Frosty Awards Nominees: Male Performance of the Year

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Posted: Dec 30, 2021

From now until Jan. 2, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester. These are the fall nominees for Male Performance of the Year. Friday we'll unveil the candidates for Female Performance of the Year.

The ninth annual Frosty Awards will take place May 3 and honor athletic excellence in Carson-Newman's athletic department.

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Dequan Dudley (Football at Catawba)

Dudley, the national special teams player of the week for games played on Oct. 9, put himself in the C-N record books by returning two, 100-yard kickoff returns for touchdowns against Catawba. They are the fifth and sixth, 100-yard returns in Carson-Newman history. Dudley also reset the single-game record for Carson-Newman kickoff return yards with 229. He joins Kendall James as the only Eagles to return multiple kicks for a score in a single game. He is one of 11 in Division II history with multiple kickoff returns for scores in a single game. He set an NCAA Division II record for yards per kickoff return with 76.3 besting a 39-year-old mark set by Cal Poly's Clarence Martin in 1982 against Cal Poly Pomona. The 76.3 yards per return are the second most among all NCAA Divisions. Only Division III's Elijah Rehm of Rowan averaged more per return - 84.7 yds per return against Widener to be exact - on Aug. 30, 2018 (three returns for 254 yds).

Troy Dendy (Football v. Limestone)

Dendy earned SAC Player of the Week honors after gaining 262 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries in Carson-Newman's 27-21 win over the Limestone Saints. Dendy tallied the sixth 250-yard rushing performance in school history. It's the fifth highest total in school history and the eighth highest total in NCAA Division II this year. He averaged a whopping 12.5 yards per carry. Dendy had 10 rushes that traversed at least 10 yards and another four that were 30 yards or longer.

Igor Dantas (Swimming at UT Invite)

Dantas wrote his name in the Carson-Newman swimming record books on multiple occasions, including a pair of brand-new program records. He first broke the program record in the men's 50-yard freestyle with a time of 19.72, which also allowed Dantas to be qualified for the 'B' standards for DII Nationals later this season. Dantas followed up that performance with another record-setting performance in the men's 100-yard freestyle. The Brazil native came in at 43.14 to set the new program record and defeat opponents from South Carolina, Alabama, and Virginia. Dantas also set a pair of top-five program times from Knoxville. His prelims time of 43.33 in the 100-yard freestyle is now the third-fastest event time for C-N to go along with his prelims time of 1:36.70 in the 200-yard freestyle which sits as the third-fastest event time by an Eagle as well.

Thay Silva (Soccer v. Erskine)

Thaylan Silva became the first Eagle since 2019 to record a hat-trick with his three-goal outburst against Erskine. Silva got the scoring started with a connection on a penalty kick in the 49th minute, moving him to second in program history at the time. Silva picked up his first multi-goal match in the 70th minute off a rebound from his own shot attempt. His second try deflected off the boot of a Flying Fleet defender, sending the ball skidding into the back right corner of the net to push the C-N lead to 3-1. The midfielder's hat trick came in the 78th minute. Kranz delivered a shot drop-off to Silva near the top of the 18-yard box that he got past a diving Zizek, once again into that lower right corner, extending the lead to 4-1. The goal also gave him the fourth game-winner in his career.

Jonathan Nielsen (Golf at the Southern Tide Intercollegiate)

Although the C-N group slid down the leaderboard, sophomore Jonathan Nielsen collected his first collegiate individual win over some of the best golfer NCAA's Division II has to offer at the Southern Tide Intercollegiate. Nielsen finished seven strokes under par with a total score of 209. Nielsen led the entire field of golfers with 18 total birdies after three rounds of play. The next closest golfer had 14.

Bram Kaarsgaren (Soccer v. Limestone)

Before their match against Carson-Newman, Limestone entered the match with the most goals scored in the SAC and had been shutout just once all season. Bram Kaarsgaren shut down the Saints, recording six saves, including a diving save on a Limestone penalty kick in the 78th minute to preserve the shutout and clinch the SAC regular season championship for the Eagles.