The two-time GNAC cross country champion and a two-time cross country All-American for Alaska Anchorage died in a car crash in Kansas on Dec. 12 at the age of 25.
The Seattle Pacific assistant sports information director and acknowledged guru of GNAC cross country and track and field receives the 2018 USTFCCCA Excellence In Communications award for Division II cross country.
Alaska Anchorage's Michael Friess is named the GNAC Men's & Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year after leading the Seawolves to a pair of GNAC titles and trips to the NCAA Championships.
Central Washington's Alexa Shindruk and Western Oregon's Tyler Jones received the NCAA Elite 90 Award at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championships, honoring the top academic performers in the meet.
Thanks to some good grouping in the top-100 of the race, Alaska Anchorage finished sixth and Simon Fraser placed ninth to lead the GNAC in the NCAA Division II Women's Cross Country Championships.