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Maddy Stover Earns Pac-12 Tom Hansen Medal
6/26/2018 9:00 AM | Gymnastics
Stover and Martin Bergström are Utah Recipients
SAN FRANCISCO––The Pac-12 Conference announced Utah gymnast Maddy Stover as a recipient of the 2017-18 Tom Hansen Conference Medal. Also representing Utah was skier Martin Bergström. A conference medal is awarded annually to each Pac-12 institution's outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on a combination of academics, athletics and leadership.
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Stover was a 2015 second-team All-American and first-team All-Pac-12 performer on the balance beam. She started for four NCAA qualifying teams, including Utah's NCAA runner-up team in 2015 and Super Six finalist in 2017 and 2018. A three-time first-team Pac-12 All-Academic choice and NACGC Scholar All-American, Stover graduated Kappa Tau Alpha (top 10% of mass communication and journalism majors) with a 3.85 cumulative GPA in communication. A team captain and two-term president of Utah's Crimson Council, she participated in numerous community service engagements and was the 2017-18 recipient of the Bennion Center Student-Athlete in Service Award.
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Bergström won three NCAA individual championships in his career—the most of any Nordic skier in Utah history. He won back-to-back NCAA 10km classic titles in 2017-18 and was also the NCAA 20-km freestyle champion in 2017 while leading Utah to the NCAA team title. Bergström was a 2018 Academic All-American, making the at-large second team with a 3.94 cumulative grade point average in mathematics. His 3.94 GPA is the best of Utah's senior male student-athletes.
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Conference medal winners have been named every year since 1960-61. In 2009, the Pac-12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as commissioner of the Pac-10.
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Utah's Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal recipients follow:
2012: Derrick Shelby (football), Maria Graefings (skiing)
2013: Miles Havlick (skiing), Rachel Messer (women's basketball)
2014: Ben Tasevic (men's tennis), Mary Beth Lofgren (gymnastics)
2015: Delon Wright (men's basketball), Georgia Dabritz (gymnastics)
2016: Brandon Taylor (men's basketball), Breanna Hughes (gymnastics)
2017: Hunter Dimick (football), Hannah Flippen (softball)
2018: Martin Bergström (skiing), Maddy Stover (gymnastics)
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Stover was a 2015 second-team All-American and first-team All-Pac-12 performer on the balance beam. She started for four NCAA qualifying teams, including Utah's NCAA runner-up team in 2015 and Super Six finalist in 2017 and 2018. A three-time first-team Pac-12 All-Academic choice and NACGC Scholar All-American, Stover graduated Kappa Tau Alpha (top 10% of mass communication and journalism majors) with a 3.85 cumulative GPA in communication. A team captain and two-term president of Utah's Crimson Council, she participated in numerous community service engagements and was the 2017-18 recipient of the Bennion Center Student-Athlete in Service Award.
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Bergström won three NCAA individual championships in his career—the most of any Nordic skier in Utah history. He won back-to-back NCAA 10km classic titles in 2017-18 and was also the NCAA 20-km freestyle champion in 2017 while leading Utah to the NCAA team title. Bergström was a 2018 Academic All-American, making the at-large second team with a 3.94 cumulative grade point average in mathematics. His 3.94 GPA is the best of Utah's senior male student-athletes.
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Conference medal winners have been named every year since 1960-61. In 2009, the Pac-12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as commissioner of the Pac-10.
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Utah's Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal recipients follow:
2012: Derrick Shelby (football), Maria Graefings (skiing)
2013: Miles Havlick (skiing), Rachel Messer (women's basketball)
2014: Ben Tasevic (men's tennis), Mary Beth Lofgren (gymnastics)
2015: Delon Wright (men's basketball), Georgia Dabritz (gymnastics)
2016: Brandon Taylor (men's basketball), Breanna Hughes (gymnastics)
2017: Hunter Dimick (football), Hannah Flippen (softball)
2018: Martin Bergström (skiing), Maddy Stover (gymnastics)
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