March 21, 2025
Winter Named NCCAA 2025 Pete Maravich Award Recipient
GREENVILLE, S.C. --- The National Christian College Athletics Association (NCCAA) recently announced Asbury men's basketball graduate student Clayton Winter as the NCCAA 2025 Pete Maravich Award recipient for Division I Men's Basketball.
Award Description
"Pistol Pete" Maravich was known for his ball handling, shooting abilities, and creative passing. Maravich set several collegiate records and was the 1970 Player of the Year. He was an NBA All-Star, named one of NBA's 50 greatest players, and inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1987. He came to know Christ later in his life and spent the last years of his life pointing people to Christ. He wanted to be remembered for serving Jesus to the utmost, rather than his basketball legacy.
"Clayton is a major reason the community of Wilmore comes to support our team," said Asbury Head Men's Basketball Coach Will Shouse. "He is a physical presence wherever he goes. But most importantly, his ability to handle the life of a husband, student, teacher, and basketball player at a high level is an example of his leadership. He uses all these things to glorify God and is called to do his best at each role."
A native of Wilmore, Ky., and student in the Asbury health and physical education graduate degree, Winter has averaged 10.3 points per game and 9.6 rebounds per game in his career. He has been consistently reliable on the defensive end, recording 57 steals and 39 blocks, and has dished out 164 assists.
Only the third Asbury men's basketball student-athlete to reach 1,000 career points and rebounds, Winter has started in at least 20 games in each season. He set the school record for most rebounds in a game on December 16, 2023, with a 32 rebound game against Crowley's Ridge College. After the 2023-24 season, Winter was named NCCAA Division I Mideast Co-Regional Player of the Year.
In the classroom, he holds a 4.0 GPA and was named an NCCAA Scholar-Athlete. Winter has the unique honor of also being a full-time teacher at Wilmore Elementary School.
View the full story from the NCCAA here.
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