Valparaiso University men's golf senior Anthony Delisanti (Sanborn, N.Y. / Niagara Wheatfield) was named the winner of the Dr. Charlotte West Scholar-Athlete Award, as announced by the Missouri Valley Conference on Tuesday. Delisanti becomes the first Valpo student-athlete to win this award, which is presented to the league's overall male and a female Scholar-Athletes of the Year across all sports.
 
The MVC Faculty Athletics Representatives Committee selected Delisanti and UNI's Kira Fallert as this year's recipients from a field of league student-athletes who met the award criteria, including academic achievement, athletics excellence and service and leadership.
 
Delisanti enjoyed a successful senior season, which culminated with a top-20 finish in the 75-player NCAA Urbana Regional, a tournament in which he possessed the best Round-3 score in the field with a 65 (-6). Delisanti finished the season as the program recordholder in career scoring average at 71.15 and second in program history in season scoring average at 69.70.
 
A four-time All-MVC honoree, Delisanti was tabbed the MVC Golfer of the Year, the MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the MVC Elite 18 Award winner, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average among top finishers at the league championship. He also won the Valparaiso University Male Athlete of the Year and Male Performance of the Year Awards, the ladder based upon taking medalist honors at the 93-player Ram Masters Invitational in September. He garnered NCAA Division-I PING Midwest All-Region status this season.
 
A three-time NCAA Regional qualifier, the 2024 National Golf Invitational champion and two-time MVC Championship medalist, Delisanti's name appears 40 times in the program record book. He finished with 27 career top-10 finishes including seven this season, top-four finishes at the MVC Championship every year of his career and won the MVC Golfer of the Week award five times this season and 12 times in his career.
 
The first-ever recipient of the Honda Award of Merit in 1996 for outstanding achievement in women's collegiate athletics, Dr. Charlotte West was a driving force for more than 40 years in the area of advancement of women's sports. On June 30, 1998, she retired from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, after serving in the capacities of head coach, associate athletics director, interim athletics director and senior woman administrator during her 41 years with the Missouri Valley Conference-member institution. West coached five women's sports from 1957-75 and, in 1982, was among the first group of women inducted into the SIUC Athletics Hall of Fame. She was inducted into the Missouri Valley Conference Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. SIU named its softball stadium after West in 2003 and the NCAA named a room in its new national office building in Indianapolis in West's honor in 2012.
 
During her tenure at SIUC, she became the first female member of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and later served on the organization's board of directors. West was also a president of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). In 1991, she was presented with the Administrator of the Year Award by the National Association of Collegiate Women Administrators. West also received the Administrator of the Year Award, given by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.