RICHARDSON - Tarleton's Marlin Cloudy and Emily Richardson were each named a 2008-09 Lone Star Conference Scholar-Athlete for their outstanding performance on the court and in the classroom this year.

Cloudy, a senior from Center, helped lead the men's basketball team to it's eighth straight LSC tournament appearance while averaging 12.2 points and 4.6 rebounds per game for the Texans.

Richardson, a senior from Georgetown, was instrumental in leading the volleyball team to tying a school record with 22 wins on the season and a trip to it's third straight LSC tournament.  She finished the season with 209 kills and 80 total blocks for the TexAnns.

The annual LSC Scholar-Athlete Award winners for 2008-09 were announced on Wednesday, with 29 student-athletes honored by league officials.

Each academic year, the LSC presents a Scholar-Athlete Award to one male and one female student-athlete at each member institution. These student-athletes are selected as representatives of the outstanding accomplishments in athletics, scholarship and leadership that are displayed on each LSC campus during the year.

To be eligible for consideration, student-athletes must have participated at least two years in their sport and must have exhausted their athletic eligibility.

Besides representing each of the league's 15 member institutions, this year's recipients represent nine of the 16 sports that are sponsored by the conference.  Basketball had the most Scholar-Athletes with five selections.

The 2008-09 Scholar-Athletes led their respective teams to four conference championships and two LSC divisional titles. 

Texas is home for 12 of the honorees, with eight from Oklahoma, two from New Mexico and one each from Utah, Kentucky, Louisiana, Canada, France, Chile and Poland.