Athlete Awards

Prairie Fire Athlete of the Week

Karl Ruzgas

  • Award
    Prairie Fire Athlete of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/13/2012
  • Sport
    Men's Tennis
  • Bio
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Ruzgas is the latest Prairie Fire Performer of the Week after he won five of the six matches he played last weekend at the Principia College Invitational in Elsah, Illinois.

He posted a 2-1 record at #4 singles and teamed up with fellow first-year player Walter Palmer to win all three of their #2 doubles matches for a 5-1 overall record.

Ruzgas and Palmer took the overall #2 doubles tournament title with victories against doubles teams from host Principia College, Greenville College, and NCAA Division II Quincy University.

Ruzgas won singles matches against Quincy’s Dan Martin 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 and Greenville’s Alex Dowley 6-2, 6-1.  His only loss of the tournament was in singles play against Principia’s Nate Waters 4-6, 6-2, 1-10.

A much improved Prairie Fire squad won both the #2 and #3 doubles competition at the tournament as well as #4 and #7 singles.



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10/20/2017 Braeden Westfall Football
10/13/2017 Jessica Petersen Women's Soccer
10/6/2017 Michael Dobin Men's Soccer
9/29/2017 Rose Griffin Volleyball
9/22/2017 Kayla Brown Women's Soccer
9/15/2017 Jacob Paul Football
9/8/2017 Matt McCaffrey Football
5/12/2017 Stryker Davies Baseball
5/5/2017 Emily Stevenson Softball
4/28/2017 Drake Sykes Baseball
4/21/2017 Val Varanese Track & Field
4/14/2017 Alec Jordan Baseball
4/7/2017 Alec Jordan Baseball
3/31/2017 Kyleigh Guthals Softball
3/24/2017 Stryker Davies Baseball
3/3/2017 Val Varanese Track & Field
2/17/2017 Michaela Kowalewski Track & Field
2/10/2017 Madeline Bruce Swimming and Diving
2/3/2017 Morgan Potter Women's Basketball
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