LCSC receives George Bandy Memorial
 All-Sports Award
9-22-06 

Frontier Conference Commissioner Mike Walker presented Lewis-Clark State College officials with the George Bandy Memorial All-Sports Award from the Frontier Conference for the 2005-06 academic year during his visit to the Lewiston, Idaho campus on Friday. 

The award is presented annually to the conference school which has accumulated the most points based on its league finish in each sport. The Frontier Conference officially sponsors football, men’s and women’s basketball, women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s golf. 

The conference champion in each sport receives a certain point total and the points awarded then decrease for each finish thereafter. 

Although LCSC doesn’t compete in football, both the men’s and women’s golf teams won conference titles last year, while the women’s basketball team shared the league title with Montana-Western. That helped the Warriors capture the All-Sports Award for the second time. LCSC also won the award during the 1999-2000 academic year, which was the Warriors’ first season in the Frontier Conference.          (From left to right: Provost,  J. Anthony Fernandez; President, Dene K. Thomas; Frontier
                                                              Conference Commissioner, Mike Walker; Assistant Athletic Director, Brooke Cushman; and
                                                              Director of Auxiliary Services, Gary Picone)

The conference features eight members in all sports, including six from Montana – Carroll College in Helena, Montana Tech in Butte, Montana State-Northern in Havre, Rocky Mountain in Billings, Montana-Western in Dillon and the University of Great Falls. Westminster College, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, joins LCSC as the non-Montana members. Eastern Oregon, located in LaGrande, is a conference member in football only.

The All-Sports trophy is named in honor of the first Commissioner of the Frontier Conference, George Bandy, his wife Cheryl Ann and their 8-year-old son Michael, whom they had just adopted two weeks earlier. The family died tragically in a boating accident in the summer of 1982 when their 14-foot sailboat overturned in high winds on Canyon Ferry Reservoir of Helena.