Malone University Athletics

Awards and Honors

• 2020-21 Great Midwest Academic All-Conference Team
• 2019-20 Great Midwest Academic All-Conference Team

Junior Season (Spring 2021): Named to the Great Midwest Academic All-Conference Team... the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Pioneers to play an abbreviated championship season during the 2021 spring semester... Bancroft saw action in six matches and played a total of 192 minutes.

Sophomore Season (2019): Named to the Great Midwest Academic All-Conference Team... in his sophomore campaign, Bancroft played in five matches and totaled 39 minutes on the pitch..

Freshman Season (2018): Bancroft appeared in six games, making one start against Cedarville (9/8/18), and played 165 minutes.

Prior to Malone: Bancroft was a four-year member of the Tiger soccer and baseball teams and a three-year member of the basketball team.  He helped guide LCC soccer to Portage Trail Conference Championships in both 2015 and 2016.  Bancroft was a two-time First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Stark County and Second Team All-District selection in soccer.  Following the 2017 season, he was also named First Team All Tri-County, received the NSCAA Senior Excellence Award and participated in the Stark County All-Star Game and the GASSCA Senior All-Star Game.  Academically, Bancroft earned the OSSCA Academic Excellence Award and graduated in Lake Center's Top 10.  Bancroft is the nephew of Jon and Jessica Hance, who competed for the Pioneer baseball and volleyball teams in the late 1980's.

Personal: Majoring in Exercise Science with a minor in Business... Named to the 2020-21 Dean's List.