BATON ROUGE – After being selected as a recipient of this year’s Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award in May, LSU junior goalkeeper Mo Isom received her award this weekend while she attended the National Association of Academic Advisors Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The award is presented each year by the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics and has been instituted to honor student-athletes who have overcome great personal, academic and emotional odds to achieve academic success while competing in intercollegiate athletics.
Isom was one of five winners presented with the award during Saturday’s festivities as she joined football player Wilson Holloway of Tulsa, rower Megan Mahoney of Marist College, women’s basketball player Morghan Medlock of Baylor and football player Rickey Thernarse of Nebraska.
In addition, Isom was also this year’s recipient of the Eye of the Tiger Award presented in February at the annual Tiger Athletic Foundation Academic Excellence Gala.
The Marietta, Ga., native has overcome tremendous adversity during her collegiate career after her father, John Isom, committed suicide on Jan. 3, 2009, following her freshman season and she was involved in a horrific car accident on Nov. 25, 2009, following her sophomore campaign that kept her out of LSU’s offseason strength and conditioning program for four months.