KU honors seniors

Kansas Athletics presented the student-athlete members of the 2013 senior class with their K Rings in a ceremony held Monday night in Kansas Student Union. In addition to the K Rings, the program featured awards presentations.

Volleyball’s Tayler Tolfree and softball’s Maggie Hull were named co-winners of the Bob Frederick Female Senior Scholar Athlete Award, while football standout Trevor Marrongelli was the Bob Frederick Male Senior Scholar Athlete Award recipient.

Hull and Tolfree are from Lawrence and were three-time Academic All-Big 12 picks.

A three-time Academic All-Big 12 First Team selection, Marrongelli, from Austin, Texas, started all 12 games at center, giving him 24 consecutive starts to end his career.

Former KU basketball player and golf coach Jerry Waugh was presented with the K Club Lifetime Service Award.

KU track and field seniors Heather Bergmann and Kaman Schneider were the recipients of the Prentice Gautt Scholarship Award.

Dr. Andrew Fry, in his fourth year at KU as a professor in the exercise-physiology program, was the 2013 Del Shankel Teaching Excellence Award recipient as selected by the KU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.