Glenn, Minato Earn Prestigious AAA Award

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WEST POINT, N.Y. – Army West Point star gymnast Jesse Glenn and record-setting women's basketball player Kelsey Minato were honored with the United States Military Academy's highest athletic honor on Friday as they were presented with the Army Athletic Association Award at the Awards Convocation in Eisenhower Hall.

The trophy is awarded annually to the male and female cadet-athletes who display the "most valuable service to intercollegiate athletics during a career as a cadet."

This year marks the 112th anniversary of the AAA Award, which was first presented to football's Horatio Hackett in 1904.

Glenn becomes the fourth gymnast to garner the award, and the first to do so since Kip Webber was named the AAA Award winner in 2014. Minato is the 11th women's basketball player, and the first since Erin Anthony in 2011.

An Engineering Management major from Porter Ranch, Calif., Glenn ended his senior campaign with nine individual ECAC titles and nine USA Gymnastics All-America certificates, and became the first Black Knight to win the Nissen-Emery Award, presented annually to the nation's top senior gymnast.

Glenn claimed nine ECAC individual titles during his career, including championships in all-around and high bar disciplines during his sophomore, junior and senior years. He added a floor exercise title as a senior and took home individual titles in vault and parallel bars during his junior campaign. Additionally, Glenn was named ECAC Senior Athlete of the Year at the conclusion of the 2016 ECAC Championships.

Glenn advanced to the individual finals on high bar at the NCAA Championships as a junior and placed ninth to mark the first time an Army gymnast has reached the NCAA individual finals since Garrek Hojan-Clark did it on pommel horse in 2013.

During his first season on the team, Glenn collected ECAC Co-Rookie of the Year honors, despite missing a portion of the season due to injury. Earlier that year, Glenn competed as an individual at the Winter Cup Challenge in Las Vegas, Nev., and placed 12th on vault and 15th on floor exercise among a field of 34 competitors during the tournament's preliminary round. He also took part in the Winter Cup Challenge as a junior in 2015, where he placed 14th on high bar.

Glenn owns Army records in all-around (88.450) and high bar (15.450), setting the all-around mark against Springfield in 2014 and establishing the high bar record at the 2016 USA Gymnastics Collegiate National Championships and matching it at the 2016 ECAC Championships. He also ranks tied for second in team history on parallel bars (14.700).

Glenn helped lead the Black Knights to top-three finishes at the West Point Open during each his four years, including second-place showings in 2013, 2015 and 2016. Glenn claimed the top spot in the all-around competition at the West Point Open in 2013, 2015 and 2016, with his all-around victory in 2013 coming as Army's first West Point Open individual championship in the discipline since the event began in 1991.

He was twice selected to the ECAC All-Academic Team and finished his career with a GPA of 3.450.

Like Glenn, Minato completed her career as one of the top athletes in Academy history. A three-time All-American, Minato drew three Patriot League Player of the Year honors and is the only player in league history to be named to the All-Patriot League first team all four years. A native of Huntington Beach, Calif., who majors in Environmental Science, Minato was three-time All-Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association first-team choice and was one of 10 national finalists for the Senior CLASS Award.

Minato led the Patriot League in scoring during each of her final three seasons, to include an Army-record 23.2 points per game as a senior. She netted a team-record 743 points in 2015-16 to finish with 2,556 points for her four years and end her playing career atop the Patriot League's all-time scoring list.

Minato guided Army to a team-record 29 victories as a part of a 29-3 overall record in 2015-16 as the Black Knights won their second Patriot League title in the last three seasons. Minato capped her senior season with Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention and Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-America Honorable Mention praise, as well as an espnW Mid-Major Player of the Year nod.

During an unprecedented moment on senior night, Minato and the women's basketball Class of 2016 were honored for being the winningest group in team history with a record of 99-28 before Minato became the first active cadet to have her jersey retired.

Minato and her classmates are the only Army women's basketball players to experience four 20-win seasons and four national postseason tournament appearances, with NCAA Tournament bids in 2014 and 2016 and trips to the WNIT in 2013 and 2015.

Minato will graduate with Army career standards in points (2,556), scoring average (20.1), three-pointers (329), free throws (569), free throw percentage (.890) and field goals (829). As a sophomore, Minato scored a Patriot League-record 49 points in a game against Holy Cross, while setting NCAA records for most free throws made in a game (26) and the most free throws made in a game without a miss (26-for-26).

As a freshman, Minato became the first player in Patriot League history to collect Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year honors during the same season and was selected to the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association second team following 2012-13. She earned first-team praise during her final three years and ended her career as MBWA Division I Player of the Year.

Glenn and Minato will receive their second lieutenant pins to officially begin their respective Army careers in a commissioning ceremony following Saturday morning's graduation at Michie Stadium.

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Glenn, Minato Earn Prestigious AAA Award

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