PORTLAND, Ore. --- The University of Portland Athletic Department is proud to announce that student-athletes Ryan Barr, Lucy Butkovska, Parkes Kendrick and Calli VanderWilde are all nominees for several annual West Coast Conference Awards. The WCC annually hands out the Mike Gilleran Scholar-Athlete of the Year Awards, post-graduate scholarships and a sportsmanship award.
Barr, a senior baseball player, and Butkovska, a senior on the women's tennis team, are both nominated for the scholar-athlete of the year award. Barr boasts a cumulative GPA of 3.54, and he recently earned a mechanical engineering degree, while minoring in mathematics. He was named to the WCC All-Academic Team, while also nabbing All-WCC Honorable Mention.