PULLMAN, Wash. (Aug. 19, 2025) – Washington State student-athletes Katy Ryan and Kyle Thornton were named the Pac-12 Conference Tom Hansen Medal recipients for the 2024-25 academic year, the conference announced Tuesday. A Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution's outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.
Conference medal winners have been named every year since the 1960-61 academic year. In 2009, the Pac-12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10.