Beals to receive  2004 Lindsay Medallion Award Andy Beals of Mattoon, Ill., a 2003 graduate, is the recipient of this year’s Lindsay Medallion, an award presented annually to honor outstanding Millikin student-athletes. The award was inspired by and first presented to the late Mr. and Mrs. F. Merrill Lindsay in 1997 in recognition of their $1 million gift to fund improvements to the track and field facility at Frank M. Lindsay Field. Beals is being recognized for his excellence in football and will receive the Lindsay Medallion during a special ceremony held before the start of the Sept. 18 Big Blue football game. Beals is Millikin’s all-time leading scorer and the most decorated kicker in Big Blue history. While at Millikin, he set five Big Blue records: career points (277), career kicking points (277), career points after touchdown (163), career field goals (38) and consecutive points after touchdown (31). He also set or tied five CCIW records: single game kicking points (tied with 17), season field goals (tied with 11), season kicking points (59), career field goals (31) and career kicking points (188). During his last season as a player, he was nationally ranked by the NCAA for average field goals per game (1.2). Beals was named a first team Academic All-American by the College Sports Information Directors of America in 2003. He was chosen as a third team Hewlett-Packard All-American place kicker in 2002 and was named a third team All-American by the National Weekly Football Gazette in 2003. He was twice named a CCIW first team all-conference selection (2001, 2003) during his Millikin career. In both 2002 and 2003, Beals was a first team academic all-district selection, and he earned second team honors in 2001. He was a four-year letter winner in football and also lettered for three years on the Big Blue’s baseball team. “Andy is a person of great character and integrity who strives to excel in all aspects of his life,” says Doug Neibuhr ’75, head football coach. “He was a very significant contributor on the football field while setting a standard for achievement in the classroom that all of our student-athletes involved in football aspire to attain. He is an outstanding representative of our football program and our university.” Beals was also a member of the Millikin Marketing Association while a student. He completed his bachelor’s degree in business management in December 2003, graduating summa cum laude. He currently works as an operational supervisor for Caterpillar Inc. in Decatur and plans to earn a master’s degree in business administration. “Any successes I might experience in the future should be attributed to my parents and the fact that I gained good values and a great education during my time at Millikin,” Beals says. The Lindsay Medallion presented to Beals was designed by the late Steve Spangler, a member of the class of 1968, and based on original artwork created by Millikin track and field alumnus Bob Nellis ’90.