Ohio Wesleyan University senior Trey Theobald (Archbold) has been named the winner of the North Coast Athletic Conference's Don Hunsinger Award for 2025, it was announced by the NCAC.

Theobald established himself as one of the top javelin throwers in NCAA Division III throughout his career.  He earned first-team All-America honors in both 2024 and 2025, finishing as the national runner-up at the 2024 NCAA Division III outdoor track & field championships with a mark of 213-6 and placing fourth in 2025, when he broke the Ohio Wesleyan record with a throw of 216-2.  A consistent performer at the conference level, Theobald claimed the 2025 NCAC javelin title and earned All-NCAC honors in 2023, 2024, and 2025, while he and his teammates captured all-conference honors in the 400-meter relay in 2022.  He also was a 3-time All-Great Lakes Region selection.  Theobald's leadership helped the OWU men's javelin corps grow to 7 student-athletes this season, with the Bishops ranking seventh in the final 2025 United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III event-squad rankings.

In the classroom, Theobald graduated with a 3.96 cumulative GPA as a biochemistry and pre-medicine major and biology minor.  He was a 2025 Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society inductee, a 2024 and 2025 College Sports Communicators (CSC) first-team Academic All-America® selection, and was a CSC Academic All-District® and USTFCCCA All-Academic honoree in 2023, 2024, and 2025.  He also received the Hall Fellowship in Chemistry, was named a Schafer Chemistry Scholar, and was honored with the Second-Year Chemistry Major Faculty Prize.  Theobald engaged in advanced undergraduate research through summer programs at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan.  At Vanderbilt's VINSE lab, he worked on developing a method to detect medication-induced neurotoxicity on fetal brain development using cerebral organoids.  At Michigan, he investigated the energetic stabilities of Rituxan and Ruxience.  During his time at OWU, he also completed a directed reading in oligonucleotide biosynthesis.

On campus and in the broader community, Theobald made contributions through service and leadership.  He served as president and treasurer of the OWU Pre-Health Club, leading initiatives that enabled over 50 students to receive Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.  As a teaching assistant and tutor in general and organic chemistry labs, he emphasized both technical instruction and academic confidence-building.  Off campus, Theobald volunteered in multiple departments at the Fulton County Health Center, gaining invaluable clinical exposure at a critical access hospital. He also contributed to programs like OWU's Bishop Games and served as a Summer Splash swim coach, reflecting a deep commitment to mentorship and public health.

The Don Hunsinger Award is named in honor of the former Oberlin College administrator and coach, who had a far-reaching influence on the athletes he coached in a wide variety of sports. Over more than 3 decades, Hunsinger served Oberlin as athletics director, chairman of the department of physical education, had stints as head coach for Yeomen football, baseball, and men's and women's tennis, and assisted with the men's and women's basketball programs.  He earned NCAC Coach of the Year recognition 4 times, twice in men's tennis and twice in women's tennis.  Hunsinger, who retired from Oberlin in 2008, served the conference as Director of Tennis until 2022.

The award recognizes one male senior student-athlete who has distinguished himself throughout his collegiate career in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service, and leadership. Each conference institution can nominate a distinguished male student-athlete for the honor.  A committee of NCAC administrators, in conjunction with the conference office, makes the selection.

As this year's NCAC winner, Theobald will also be nominated for the Division III Commissioners Association Student-Athlete of the Year award.

Theobald is the first Ohio Wesleyan student-athlete to win the Don Hunsinger Award since Ahmed Hamed in 2020.  Previously, the Bishops had a 4-year run of Hunsinger Award winners that included Kyle Holliday (2009), David Gatz (2010), Kyle Herman (2011), and Sharif Kronemer (2012).