Track standouts Aaron Ahl and Alison Andrews-Paul, head cross country/track and field coach Brit Townsend and basketball player Jimmy Zaborniak are finalists in the Sport BC Athlete of the Year awards.
One of longest tenured cross country and track and field coaches in the Northwest, Halsell retires after a 36-year career at Western Washington. He guided the Vikings to 36 team championship in the two sports.
The longtime Western Washington head coach is named the GNAC Men's & Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year after the Vikings swept the conference team titles for the second time in three seasons.
Alaska Anchorage's Coleman Nash places sixth and Alaska's Kendall Kramer places eighth to lead the GNAC at the Division II Cross Country Championships in University Place, Washington.
It was a GNAC sweep for top regional honors as Alaska's Naomi Bailey and Simon Fraser's Charlie Dannatt were named the USTFCCCA Division II West Region Cross Country Athletes of the Year.