Cleared Duke lacrosse player gets medal from high school alma mater

Seligmann was presented with the Delbarton Medal, the highest honor from the all-boys Delbarton School.

The school?s headmaster, the Rev. Luke L. Travers, praised Seligmann for demonstrating ?courage, nobility, integrity and charity? during the year since the charges were brought.

?You gave us a model of how to handle the pressures that we all experience,? Travers said, according to the school?s Web site.

Travers declined to comment Thursday, school spokeswoman Jessica Fiddes said.

Fiddes said the Delbarton Medal is given to several graduating seniors at each year, but occasionally it is given to others, including school visitors such as Nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel.

?In Reade?s case, the medal was given to affirm the character that Reade displayed during the ordeal of the past year,? she said. The medal was presented on Tuesday.

Seligmann, 21, of Essex Fells, and two teammates were cleared April 11 of charges alleging they raped a stripper at an off-campus lacrosse party. The charges were dropped by North Carolina?s attorney general, who said the three men were innocent and were victims of a local prosecutor?s ?overreaching? because no attack happened.

Seligmann did not return to Duke after the charges and has been volunteering as an assistant lacrosse coach at Delbarton.