* Cornell's Senior Athlete Awards All-Time

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell seniors Jeff Mathews and Rachel Sorna took home the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award on Tuesday evening at the school's annual senior athletics banquet. Andy Iles and Emily Shearer both earned the Ronald P. Lynch Senior Spirit Award, given to student-athletes whose leadership on and off the field models the ideals of the Big Red athletics department. Alyssa Gagliardi and Benjamin Williams were recognized with the Mario St. George Boiardi '04 Leadership Award for most embodying leadership, athleticism and a strong work ethic.

Mathews, a two-time All-American, ended his storied Cornell career as the most prolific quarterback in Ivy League history and one of the top in all of college football. He ranks among the top 20 all-time in career passing yards in the FCS and set the Ivy League's all-time passing record by more than 2,000 yards. Mathews owns 47 Big Red school records and 18 Ivy League marks for passing and total offense. The three-year team captain was named one of 16 finalists for the National Football Foundation's William V. Campbell Trophy which recognizes the top football scholar-athlete in the nation. The three-time All-Ivy selection was a Capital One Academic All-District first-team selection and a two-time finalist for the Bushnell Cup for the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, winning in 2011. Mathews also was a two-time member of the Walter Payton Award Watch List as FCS national player of the year. After the season, Mathews became the fifth Cornellian to accept an invite to the East-West Shrine game, serving as a team captain for the East team, and also accepted an invitation to the Draft Combine before signing a contract with the Atlanta Falcons.

Sorna was a four-time All-American, earning accolades twice in cross country and twice in track and field. A two-time first-team All-Ivy League and NCAA all-region selection, Sorna owns the school record in the 3,000 steeplechase. She captured second team All-America accolades as a junior in the 5,000 meters indoors and the 3,000 steeplechase outdoors. Sorna placed 14th at the 2013 NCAA cross country championship and 34th at the 2012 meet. In the steeplechase, she won the Penn Relays in 2013 and outdoor Heps in both 2013 and 2014, becoming the first Cornellian to win the event in back-to-back years. Her school record time of 9:43.48 in the event is more than 23 seconds faster than the next closest mark at Cornell.

A hometown hero from Ithaca, Iles was a four-year fixture in goal for the Big Red men's hockey team. The 2014 Ivy League Player of the Year and a two-time first-team All-Ivy selection, Iles became the program's all-time saves leader (2,998). A finalist for ECAC Hockey goaltender of the year, Iles started 101 of his last 102 games, including an 80-game stretch that ranks as the fifth-longest in Division I history. He racked up a 58-42-17 overall record with a 2.26 goals-against average and a .917 save percentage with nine shutouts. Iles was named a Senior CLASS first-team All-American for excellence in the classroom, in competition, in character and community. Iles became the first Big Red goalkeeper to wear an assistant captain letter in 31 years this season, and was a member of the Sphinx Head and Red Key Honor Societies. He was also heavily involved in a number of community service projects, including spending two seasons at the organizer and planner of the Cornell Hockey Teddy Bear Toss for the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes and the Franziska Racker Centers. He has volunteered to pack meals with Feed My Starving Children and to mentor children at Newfield Elementary Schools. Iles also made a service trip to Don Juan, Dominican Republic, to help construct a multipurpose center to serve as a church and school in an impoverished area.

Shearer was a three-time All-Ivy League selection in cross country, including a first-team pick as both a junior and senior. The two-time NCAA all-region selection was the runner-up at the 2012 Heptagonal cross country meet and was a part of four total Heps championship teams (two in cross country, two in track and field). Off the course was where Shearer really shined. A Marshall Scholar and Rhodes Scholar candidate, she has a grade point average of 4.2 while double majoring in biological sciences and government. The co-President of the Red Key Honor Society, she is also a member of the Quill and Dagger Honor Society. An Academic All-Ivy selection, Shearer served as co-captain of both the cross country and track and field teams. She spent time working as an emergency medical technician on campus, putting her concern for others and interest in medicine into daily practice. Shearer conducted health policy research for Cornell's student-run think tank, the Roosevelt Institute.

A second-team All-American in 2014, Gagliardi was a two-time captain for a Big Red women's hockey team that won three Ivy League titles, three ECAC championships and four consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament over her tenure with the squad. Cornell's first finalist for the women's Hockey Humanitarian Award, she graduated as the school's career leader in games played (138) and fifth in plus-minus (+96) while ranking among the all-time scorers as a defenseman (19-70-89). Gagliardi was chosen to compete for a spot on the U.S. Olympic hockey team. She devoted time to the Feed My Starving Children program and the Salvation Army's adopt-a-family program and volunteered time for Habitat for Humanity, assisting in building two homes in the community. She was a big sister in Cornell's "Cub Club" and won the team's Mentor Award for her work with the program. Gagliard was a member of the Red Key Honor Society and the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC).

Williams was a four-year starter and a two-time All-Ivy League performer who gave so much more off the pitch. A member of the Quill and Dagger and Red Key honor societies, he was a four-year member of the men's soccer team council and also participated as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC). A starter on the 2012 Ivy League championship team, he was the defensive MVP of the 2012 CU Inaria Cup and earned all-tournament accolades at three different tournaments during his career. He won five major men's soccer team awards, including one as a senior. Williams set the tone for the team on the field, in the locker room and the weight room. He was a three-time member of the Wall of Honor in the Friedman Strength and Conditioning Center. His ability to assist others was also renowned, contributing time and resources for programs like the Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer Awareness campaign, the National Women in Sports Day, Bench Press for a Cure, Salvation Army's Adopt-a-Family, the Red Key's Field Day for Kids and One Billion Rising flashmob against domestic violence. Williams was invited by the coaching staff to join the program as an undergraduate assistant coach in the spring of 2014.