New Twist Added to Auggie Awards

Award ceremonies are usually pretty predicatable.  Not the sixth annual Auggie Awards on Monday night at Augsburg College's Si Melby Hall. Women's track and field student-athlete Ashley Carney was receiving her award for Women's Athlete of the Year-Individual Sport. Her boyfriend, Augsburg alum Rick Wolke '12 (who ran on the men's track and field team during his Auggie career), knew that Ashley was nominated for the honor, so he hatched up a plan to dress up in the Auggie Eagle mascot costume to give Ashley her award ... Rick took off the Auggie Eagle head, took a knee and proposed. Ashley said yes, and the Auggie Awards crowd went wild.