DePaul Athletics Celebrates 2025 Billys

CHICAGO – DePaul Athletics hosted its annual Billys awards ceremony on Monday evening inside McGrath-Phillips Arena, celebrating the 2024-25 athletic seasons. Winners were honored for their success in athletics, academics, and community service.

Highlights of the night included recognition for former DePaul women's basketball head coach Doug Bruno, who dedicated more than four decades of service to the program, earning 786 wins and 25 berths to the NCAA tournament. Bruno was recognized with the inaugural Doug Bruno Coach of the Year award, which will be presented annually in his honor to an outstanding DePaul coach.

Alongside Bruno, women's basketball forward Jorie Allen was recognized as the Female Student-Athlete of the Year, after a stellar final campaign where she led the conference in scoring, set DePaul's single-season record for free throws made (207), and was recognized as the BIG EAST Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Track and field student-athlete Darius Brown earned the honor of Male Student-Athlete of the Year, after emerging victorious in the 60m hurdles at the BIG EAST Indoor Championships and securing a third All-American honor.

Marty Schiene was also recognized for his eight years at the helm of DePaul golf, concluding his career with the team achieving the best under-par score in the conference tournament in program history.

Volleyball was recognized as the team of the year, after they eclipsed the program record for wins in a single season (21), earned two victories to advance to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship Great Eight and notched the most first-team all-conference honorees in program history.

The full list of award winners and nominees can be viewed below.

Male Newcomer of the Year: Demetrius Rolle, Track and Field
Nominees: CJ Gunn, Men's Basketball, Dustin Hudak, Cross Country and Track and Field, George Wyatt, Men's Soccer

Female Newcomer of the Year: Briley Hill, Women's Soccer
Nominees: Kelly Greene, Softball, Meg Newman, Women's Basketball, Ashley Montesdeoca, Cheer

Female Student-Athlete of the Year: Jorie Allen, Women's Basketball
Nominees: Rachel Krasowski, Volleyball, Jill Pressly, Volleyball, Beth Smyth, Women's Soccer

Male Student-Athlete of the Year: Darius Brown, Track and Field
Nominees: Noeh Hernandez, Men's Soccer, Kaden Jackson, Cheer, Damian Rodriguez, Cross Country, Track and Field

Male Freshmen of the Year: Dominic Lucchesi, Golf and Jaiden Gary, Track and Field
Nominees: Andy Hadziabdic, Men's Tennis, Nolan McGuire, Men's Soccer

Female Freshmen of the Year: Sade Miller, Track and Field and Tessa Roe, Cross Country
Nominees: Katelyn Jamie, Women's Soccer, Amanda Saeger, Volleyball

Most Outstanding Team: Volleyball
Nominees: Men's Soccer, Women's Soccer, Track and Field

Moment of the Year: Women's soccer advancing to the BIG EAST tournament semifinals with an 8-7 decision over Butler in penalty kicks

Nominees:
Volleyball's Aly Kindelberger earning a career-high 22 kills and the match point in her home state of Pennsylvania to defeat Villanova in five sets

Men's basketball beating Georgetown in the first round of the BIG EAST tournament at Madison Square Garden

Eva Goncharov and Hannah Smith of women's tennis defeating Tulsa's 18^th-ranked doubles pair for their second ranked win of the season

Sports Performance Awards:
The Sports Performance Award was established by former strength and conditioning coach Tim Lang in 2003. The honor is awarded annually by the Sports Performance staff.

Male Iron Demon: Ryder Henares, Golf
Nominees: Dominic Cole, Track and Field, Charles Lewis, Track and Field
Female Iron Demon: Schuyler Riese, Women's Soccer
Nominees: Jessica Beckman, Track and Field, Eleanor Nobbs, Women's Tennis

Rev. John R. Cortelyou Award: The three seniors below distinguished themselves by earning the highest GPAs in their student-athlete graduating class.

Sven Moser, Men's Tennis
Eva Goncharov, Women's Tennis
Katelynn Oxley, Volleyball

Team Community Service Award: Women's Soccer
Individual Community Service Award: Eleanor Nobbs, Women's Tennis

Blue Demon Staff Award: Jacob Forney, Assistant Director of Sports Performance
Nominees:
Nathan Johnson, Assistant Director of Sports Performance
Terri Sullivan, Assistant Director for Academic Advising and Student-Athlete Development

Most Outstanding Performers: Each coaching staff annually selects their most outstanding performer.

Men's Basketball: CJ Gunn
Women's Basketball: Jorie Allen
Cheer: Gwenavere Halik
Men's Cross Country: Damian Rodriguez
Women's Cross Country: Tessa Roe
Dance: Elliott Stephenson
Golf: Dominic Lucchesi
Men's Soccer: Noeh Hernandez
Women's Soccer: Beth Smyth
Softball: Baylee Cosgrove
Men's Tennis: Matteo Iaquinto
Women's Tennis: Eleanor Nobbs
Men's Indoor Track and Field: Darius Brown
Women's Indoor Track and Field: Jaiah Hopf
Men's Outdoor Track and Field: Demetrius Rolle
Women's Outdoor Track and Field: Jessica Beckman
Volleyball: Rachel Krasowski and Jill Pressly

Father Edward Riley, C.M. and Jean Nordberg Memorial Awards:
A crucial piece of the DePaul Athletics annual celebration for more than 30 years, these awards recognize the contributions of top female (Nordberg) and male (Riley) student-athletes whose academic excellence, personal character and leadership best reflect the awards' namesakes.

Father Edward Riley, C.M Awards:
Men's Basketball: Isaiah Rivera
Men's Cross Country: Damian Rodriguez
Dance: Aidan Ores
Golf: Ryder Henares
Men's Tennis: Sven Moser
Men's Track and Field: Dominic Cole

Jean Nordberg Memorial Awards:
Women's Basketball: Jorie Allen
Cheer: Kayleen Iniguez
Women's Cross Country: Meghan Dieball
Women's Soccer: Jen Devona
Softball: Carly Alvers
Women's Tennis: Eleanor Nobbs
Women's Track and Field: Kash Allen
Volleyball: Aly Kindelberger

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