Kovacs Receives IWLCA Community Awareness Award
EUGENE – Oregon sophomore midfielder Maggie Kovacs was one of 18 lacrosse players from all NCAA divisions to earn an award from the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association over the weekend.
The IWLCA awarded Kovacs its Community Awareness honor for her involvement in the Eugene community.
Kovacs is a regular attendee of the O Heroes Wednesdays at the local Boys and Girls Club. Kovacs also participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K event as both a runner and as a volunteer, helping to organize her lacrosse team's participation. The sophomore also helped organize and lead her team to participate with the local Habitat for Humanity Chapter to help build houses for local families in need. Additionally, Kovacs and members of her team built a playground for one of the houses and started a local university chapter to support Habitat. She was one of two student-athlete coordinators for Quackin’ Action, an annual event that brings 300 children to the athletic facilities and provides an afternoon of games, fitness, nutrition and safety stations in groups with student-athletes. Her primary role was recruiting the student-athlete volunteers. Kovacs’ involvement helped bring over 100 student-athletes, one-fifth of the total student-athlete population at Oregon, to the event.
The Great Falls, Va., native participated in the 2011 MLK Day of Service, which was organized and planned through the campus service learning program. Considered a "day off," several hundred students including Kovacs and her teammates spent the "day on" by volunteering to help clean the White Bird Clinic-a local clinic for the homeless and people in need. Read Across America is the first week of March every year, and the sophomore has participated the last two years by going to a local elementary school to read and spend time with the children. She also participated in the local Polar Plunge as a volunteer to benefit the Special Olympics in February. The event is a fundraiser and people pay to jump in the river during the middle of winter. Maggie helped register volunteers and serve warm beverages when they got out of the water.
On the field, Kovacs finished the year with 13 points as the Ducks’ primary field player off the bench, helping lead Oregon to its first Mountain Pacific Sport Federation championship game in school history.
The IWLCA awarded Kovacs its Community Awareness honor for her involvement in the Eugene community.
Kovacs is a regular attendee of the O Heroes Wednesdays at the local Boys and Girls Club. Kovacs also participated in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K event as both a runner and as a volunteer, helping to organize her lacrosse team's participation. The sophomore also helped organize and lead her team to participate with the local Habitat for Humanity Chapter to help build houses for local families in need. Additionally, Kovacs and members of her team built a playground for one of the houses and started a local university chapter to support Habitat. She was one of two student-athlete coordinators for Quackin’ Action, an annual event that brings 300 children to the athletic facilities and provides an afternoon of games, fitness, nutrition and safety stations in groups with student-athletes. Her primary role was recruiting the student-athlete volunteers. Kovacs’ involvement helped bring over 100 student-athletes, one-fifth of the total student-athlete population at Oregon, to the event.
The Great Falls, Va., native participated in the 2011 MLK Day of Service, which was organized and planned through the campus service learning program. Considered a "day off," several hundred students including Kovacs and her teammates spent the "day on" by volunteering to help clean the White Bird Clinic-a local clinic for the homeless and people in need. Read Across America is the first week of March every year, and the sophomore has participated the last two years by going to a local elementary school to read and spend time with the children. She also participated in the local Polar Plunge as a volunteer to benefit the Special Olympics in February. The event is a fundraiser and people pay to jump in the river during the middle of winter. Maggie helped register volunteers and serve warm beverages when they got out of the water.
On the field, Kovacs finished the year with 13 points as the Ducks’ primary field player off the bench, helping lead Oregon to its first Mountain Pacific Sport Federation championship game in school history.
