2015-16 Department Highlights | RPI Athletics on Twitter TROY, N.Y. - As part of the athletic department's annual Welcome Back Ice Cream Social, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) year-end student-athlete awards - Freshman of the Year, Athlete of the Year and Richard S. Lyons Career Athlete - as well as the Marvin Anderson Award, were announced with eight individuals being honored. Collecting the most prestigious student-athlete awards the department hands out were freshmen Lovisa Selander and Brendan McNerney; Shanny Lin and Ben Fazio as Athlete of the Year honorees; and Taylor Ten Eyck and Jamie Jackson as the Lyons Award recipients. Shannon O'Brien and John Lynch shared the Anderson Award, presented to the Coach of the Year.