Glen Galligan Award Release
Silas Fluellen of Wayne State College and Marcus Greatens of Winona State University have been named winners of the 2009 NSIC Glen Galligan Award. The Galligan Award was initiated in 1948 to honor an outstanding senior football player in the Northern Sun Conference and is given to a student-athlete who participates at his institution for four years and is academically superior while making a positive contribution to his institution.
Fluellen, a 6-1, 210 pound quarterback from Bellevue West High School, is the first student-athlete from Wayne State College to earn the Glen Galligan Award. Fluellen has a cumulative 3.318 grade point average majoring in Physical Education at Wayne State College. He was a Presidential Scholar Athlete three times and this year was named the Physical Education Major of the Year Award winner from the Wayne State College Health Human Performance and Sport Division as selected by faculty members. The honor is based upon their academic performance and personal character. Fluellen also represented the WSC football team on the Wayne State Student Athletic Advisory Committee for four years. He also volunteered as a reader at area elementary schools and as a softball umpire for Wayne City Recreation leagues in the summer.
On the field, Fluellen holds nearly every career passing record at Wayne State College. He holds the NSIC career records for passing yards (8,996) and total offense yardage (10,170). He became the 29th NCAA Division II players with 10,000 career yards of total offense and the 19th player in NCAA Division II history with 10,000 career passing yards. Fluellen was named the 2008 and 2009 NSIC South Division Preseason Offensive Player of the Year and was a First Team NSIC South Division quarterback as a junior and senior. He was also named the NSIC Offensive Player of the Week seven times in his Wildcat career.
The Glen Galligan Award was named in honor of Galligan, who was the athletics director at Winona State from 1929-47 and head football coach from 1927-33 and 1935. The marks the seventh time in the 62-year history of the award that two athletes have shared the Glen Galligan Award.
Wayne State College finished the 2009 season with an 8-3 overall record, going 7-3 in the NSIC to finish in a tie for third place.
