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Utah’s Maddy Stover, Martin Bergström named Pac-12’s Tom Hansen medal winners

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Outgoing senior Maddy Stover thanks the fans after her beam routine as the No. 4 Utah gymnasts host No. 20 Georgia in the final regular season meet at Jon M Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City Friday, March 16, 2018.

The Pac-12 announced Tuesday that Utah gymnast Maddy Stover and skier Martin Bergström have been named recipients of the 2017-18 Tom Hansen Conference Medal.

The conference medals are awarded annually to each Pac-12 institution’s outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on a combination of academics, athletics and leadership.

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.

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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