NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- The College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) announced today the 2021-22 Merle Chapman Leadership Award Recipients. Senior Brooke Wills of Carroll University women's swimming and diving, and Senior David Burgess of Carroll University men's track and field were Carroll's two recipients of the award. Burgess and Wills are both board members of the Carroll University SAAC organization. 

This award is named after the former Millikin Athletics Director and the CCIW's second commissioner, who served in that capacity from 1997-2002. The award identifies the student-athletes that best exemplify the traits that Chapman displayed and encouraged during his three-plus decades of service as teacher, coach and mentor to the athletes, coaches and administrators of the CCIW. Those traits are loyalty, enthusiasm, leadership, sportsmanship, and a commitment to academic, athletic and personal excellence.
 
Each CCIW institution selects one men's and one women's student-athlete from their Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) who participates in a CCIW-sponsored sport.