WESTERVILLE, Ohio – It marked a celebratory and well-deserved night for recent Otterbein University seniors Cam Evans (basketball) and Erin Storrer (tennis) Monday at The Point on campus, as the duo received their prestigious Ohio Athletic Conference Clyde A. Lamb Awards during the league's annual banquet.

The heralded honor is distributed annually to the top male and female senior student-athletes from all of the league's ten institutions, selected by various committees and/or formats at each school. Three-part criteria includes athletics, academics and campus/community involvement. At least two years participation in an OAC-sponsored sport, senior status , minimum GPA of 3.00 and sportsmanlike conduct are required for consideration.

Both standouts, presented on stage together by Otterbein Faculty Athletics Representative Joan Rocks, were instrumental in the uptick of their respective programs after enrolling at Otterbein during the middle of a pandemic.

Evans (Chilicothe/Zane Trace) arrived to a men's basketball program that had not experienced a winning season in 14 years, yet patiently developed a starring role and helped his Cardinals finish above .500 in each of the next three campaigns. Otterbein has gone 48-29 on the hardwood since his sophomore year, which has seen the versatile combo guard become a 3x All-OAC selection.

Now holding more than 1,200 career points, Evans (as a junior) became the first Otterbein men's basketball player in 11 years to earn first team All-OAC. He buried multiple game-winners over the years and fittingly dropped a game-high 24 points this past season when the team upset No. 1-ranked John Carroll in the Rike Center. He did all of this while compiling a 3.27 GPA as an allied health major, and plans to stick around for a fifth/final year of eligibility.

Storrer (Westerville/Olentangy Orange) has delivered one of the most dominant tennis careers in OAC history, going a combined 66-4 against the conference since arriving as a highly-touted newcomer. That includes a 51-3 record in the regular season and perfect 40-0 mark, across singles and doubles, since the beginning of her sophomore year.

The Cardinals were working through an eight-year drought of no league titles upon Storrer's arrival… but, behind their star, proceeded to capture three consecutive OAC regular-season championships and a pair of tournament crowns. Those triumphs allowed the program to play in back-to-back NCAA Division III Championships, where Otterbein won its first-ever match in the national bracket in 2022.

A 3x OAC Player of the Year (expected to be 4x in the near future), Storrer was also the only player in Otterbein history to qualify for the NCAA Singles Championships in Orlando as a sophomore… where she missed All-American honors by one round. Along the way, she racked up a 3.76 GPA majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology. Storrer has since enrolled in graduate school and, like Evans, plans to entertain a fifth year of eligibility stemming from COVID.

Overall, 20 student-athletes across the league were recognized as key faces on behalf of their institutions. In addition to those and other various individual awards, OAC Commissioner Sarah Otey presented the All-Sports Trophies to John Carroll (men) and Ohio Northern (women). The Cardinals settled fourth on both sides of the rankings.