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An Allen County resident has been named the 2019-20 Mid-South Conference Female Character First award recipient. Conference officials announced Wednesday that Campbellsville University’s Savannah Gregory had been selected for the honor. The honor is the first for Gregory and the fourth time since the award was created in 2014-15 that a Campbellsville student-athlete has earned the recognition.
Gregory is a senior on the women’s basketball and women’s track & field teams at Campbellsville. According to a release from the conference, Gregory has been a Fellowship of Christian Athletes Huddle Leader each of the last four years while organizing the FCA event “Fields of Faith on campus. She attended a mission trip to Belize with the Campbellsville athletics department in 2019 while working to help deliver meals in her home county of Allen County to school-age children during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to working with the FCA, Gregory works with her home church youth group, she is involved with Special Olympics and a member of the MSC Student Advisory Council.
The Scottsville native, is a member of Campbellsville’s 1,000-point club and a three-time all-conference selection by the conference coaches. She is a two-time recipient of the MSC Randy Vernon Defensive Player of the Year and a two-time NAIA All-American. She earned MSC Champions of Character honors as a freshman and sophomore and a member of the MSC Champions of Character team as a junior. Academically, Gregory has earned Academic All Mid-South Conference and NAIA Scholar-Athlete during her career.
(Courtesy Mid-South Conference)
