Best And Brightest
June 27, 2017 | Football, Women's Swimming & Diving, USC Ripsit Blog
Two of USC's most impressive recent alumni were named USC's recipients of the 2017 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal today.
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Each year, the Pac-12 bestows the Tom Hansen Medal on the male and female student-athlete from each school that exhibits the greatest combination of scholarship, athletics and leadership.
USC's female recipient is swimmer Anika Apostalon. Apostalon was an NCAA champion, a nine-time All-American and a team captain before graduating from USC with a 3.92 cumulative GPA last month. She also earned Academic All-American and Pac-12 Women's Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in 2017. In February, Apostalon partnered with the Pac-12 to give words of encouragement on National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
On the men's side, recent USC football alum Zach Banner earned the award. Banner, who was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round of the NFL Draft earlier this year, was a team captain and an All-American in 2016. Banner was also a Senior CLASS Award finalist, the winner of the team's Community Service Award and the recipient of the 2017 Southern California Sports Broadcasters Post-Graduate Scholarship his senior year.
Banner is the 16th USC football player to win the award, while Apostalon is the seventh USC swimmer to win on the women's side.
Click here for the full release!
Each year, the Pac-12 bestows the Tom Hansen Medal on the male and female student-athlete from each school that exhibits the greatest combination of scholarship, athletics and leadership.
USC's female recipient is swimmer Anika Apostalon. Apostalon was an NCAA champion, a nine-time All-American and a team captain before graduating from USC with a 3.92 cumulative GPA last month. She also earned Academic All-American and Pac-12 Women's Swimming Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors in 2017. In February, Apostalon partnered with the Pac-12 to give words of encouragement on National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
On the men's side, recent USC football alum Zach Banner earned the award. Banner, who was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the fourth round of the NFL Draft earlier this year, was a team captain and an All-American in 2016. Banner was also a Senior CLASS Award finalist, the winner of the team's Community Service Award and the recipient of the 2017 Southern California Sports Broadcasters Post-Graduate Scholarship his senior year.
Banner is the 16th USC football player to win the award, while Apostalon is the seventh USC swimmer to win on the women's side.
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