Fung, Burr-Kirven Named Tom Hansen Medal Recipients
June 25, 2019 | Football, Women's Tennis
SEATTLE – Washington's Stacey Fung and Ben Burr-Kirven were named the UW's recipients of the prestigious Tom Hansen Conference Medal 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.
Washington senior Stacey Fung left her mark on the women's tennis program after four seasons on Montlake. Fung, from Vancouver, B.C., won 91 singles matches—fifth-most in program history—and 67 doubles victories to place her in the top 10. She is one of just seven All-Americans in Washington women's tennis history.
Fung, who recently graduated with a degree in communication, posted a perfect 4.00 GPA during the winter quarter this year and earned Dean's List recognition for the second time at UW. She closed out her career by making her third-straight trip to the NCAA Individual Championships, becoming just the fifth Husky to do so. Fung qualified in the singles and the doubles field to become the 10th Husky to compete in both tournaments. Fung went 18-11 in 2019, including wins over the No. 1 ranked player in singles and in doubles over the course of the year.
In 2018, Fung posted an overall singles record of 27-5 including an 18-1 record in dual matches, which culminated in her becoming the seventh All-American in program history. She was consistently ranked in the ITA Top 25 throughout the season including finishing as the No. 20 player in singles.
Ben Burr-Kirven, a linebacker from Menlo Park, Calif., capped his four-year Washington career with one of the most decorated seasons in the program's history.
Burr-Kirven led the nation with 176 tackles, 103 more than the next closest Husky in 2018. He and the conference's top defense led Washington to its second Pac-12 Championship in the last three years and a berth in the Rose Bowl. For his efforts on the field, he was named the Pac-12's Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year.
Burr-Kirven also graduated following the fall quarter, completing his degree in comparative literature (cinema studies) with a cumulative grade point average of 3.68. For that, he was named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for football, making him the first football player ever to win that honor and Pac-12 Player of the Year (offense or defense).
Named a first-team All-American by the Associated Press, the Football Writers Association and ESPN, Burr-Kirven was also a second-team Academic All-American. In April, he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round of the NFL Draft.
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.
Washington senior Stacey Fung left her mark on the women's tennis program after four seasons on Montlake. Fung, from Vancouver, B.C., won 91 singles matches—fifth-most in program history—and 67 doubles victories to place her in the top 10. She is one of just seven All-Americans in Washington women's tennis history.
Fung, who recently graduated with a degree in communication, posted a perfect 4.00 GPA during the winter quarter this year and earned Dean's List recognition for the second time at UW. She closed out her career by making her third-straight trip to the NCAA Individual Championships, becoming just the fifth Husky to do so. Fung qualified in the singles and the doubles field to become the 10th Husky to compete in both tournaments. Fung went 18-11 in 2019, including wins over the No. 1 ranked player in singles and in doubles over the course of the year.
In 2018, Fung posted an overall singles record of 27-5 including an 18-1 record in dual matches, which culminated in her becoming the seventh All-American in program history. She was consistently ranked in the ITA Top 25 throughout the season including finishing as the No. 20 player in singles.
Ben Burr-Kirven, a linebacker from Menlo Park, Calif., capped his four-year Washington career with one of the most decorated seasons in the program's history.
Burr-Kirven led the nation with 176 tackles, 103 more than the next closest Husky in 2018. He and the conference's top defense led Washington to its second Pac-12 Championship in the last three years and a berth in the Rose Bowl. For his efforts on the field, he was named the Pac-12's Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year.
Burr-Kirven also graduated following the fall quarter, completing his degree in comparative literature (cinema studies) with a cumulative grade point average of 3.68. For that, he was named the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year for football, making him the first football player ever to win that honor and Pac-12 Player of the Year (offense or defense).
Named a first-team All-American by the Associated Press, the Football Writers Association and ESPN, Burr-Kirven was also a second-team Academic All-American. In April, he was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fifth round of the NFL Draft.
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