Contact: Brock Reisler, Assistant Executive Director, breisler@midwestconference.org
 
OSHKOSH, Wisconsin – The Midwest Conference announced Lake Forest College cross country and track and field runner Megan Dodrill as the winner of the prestigious Ruth Peterson Award on Wednesday morning.
 
Awarded annually to a senior, the Ruth Peterson Award is presented to the female scholar-athlete who earned the league's highest-grade point average during her junior year. Peterson was the former Commissioner of the Midwest Athletic Conference for Women and went on to serve as the Co-Commissioner of the MWC. A Beloit College alum and employee, she passed away in October of 2006.
 
Dodrill is a politics and biology double major from Windsor, Colorado, and has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average throughout her collegiate career. She was named Academic All-MWC as a freshman swimmer and during her junior year as a member of the cross country and track and field teams. This fall she received the league's Elite 20 Award for owning the highest cumulative GPA of any competitor at the MWC Cross Country Championship Meet. Dodrill was also inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Athlete Honor Society last spring.
 
As a freshman, Dodrill helped the Foresters' 400- and 800-freestyle relay teams claim titles at the MWC Swimming and Diving Championships and she finished among the top four as an individual in the 50-, 100-, and 200-freestyle. As a runner she was selected as the Forester cross country team's Most Improved Performer in 2024 and scored for the squad that placed fifth at each of the last two MWC Championship meets.
 
Dodrill is the fourth consecutive Forester and fifth overall to earn the Peterson Award, joining softball player Kat Beall (2017), soccer players Paityn Tabor (2022) and Ashley Birnesser (2023), and swimmer Caprice Kalvelage (2024).