Given annually by the coach to a swimmer who best demonstrates, throughout the season, the true spirit of Kenyon Swimming. It is an award in which the means justify the end. It is given not only for hard work and personal improvement, but for a willingness to understand, to learn, to enter into a partnership with coach and teammates in an effort to recognize one's full potential. The recipient of this award has participated in the struggle, each and every day, and in the end found over her own limitations. The award is given in memory of Joseph S. O'Daniel.
2025Â -- Gwen Eisenbeis
2024Â -- Molly Haag
2023Â -- Ella Campbell
2022Â --Â Olivia Smith
2021Â -- Ana Dunn
2020Â -- Caylee HamiltonÂ
2019Â -- Madeline Carlson
2018 -- Kendall Vanderhoof
2017 -- Delaney Ambrosen
2016Â -- Hannah Lobb
2015Â -- Maria Zarka
2014 -- Dru Selden
2013Â -- Kiersten Bell
2012Â -- Sydnee Lindblom
2011 -- Hannah Saiz
2010 -- Marta Stewart-Bates
2009 -- Danielle Seltzer
2008 -- Brittany Hurd
2007 -- Carolyn Barer
2006 -- Laila Gagnon
2005 -- Jessica Connors
2004 -- Danielle Korman
2003 -- Senior Class
2002 -- Ashley Rowatt, Katherine Holland
2001 -- Ann Racek, Erinn Hurley
2000 -- Sarah Leone, Neala Kendall
1999 -- Rebecca Sanford
1998 -- (no award given)
1997 -- Julia Boon, '97 National Team
1996 -- Kathryn Petrock
1995 -- Carla Ainsworth
1994 -- Danice Stone
1993 -- Jennifer Heaton
1992 -- Tasha Willis
1991 -- not awarded
1990 -- Melissa Nelson
1989 -- (no award given)
1988 -- Jeannine Gury
1987 -- Patricia Abt
1986 -- D. Nadine Neil
1985 -- Lauren Davis
1984 -- Carol Leslie
1983 -- Christine Heggie
1982 -- (no award given)
1981 -- Kathleen Singer
1980 -- Amy Haury, Sandra Glatt
1979 -- Karen Yeaw
1978 -- Lisa Sanders
1977 -- Barbara Hostetler
