Leadership Award

The Pacific-10 Conference established the Pac-10 Leadership Award in 2002 to recognize student-athletes who have served on their institutional Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAAC) and demonstrated leadership. This Pac-10 Leadership Award is a $3000 scholarship for postgraduate study awarded to one male and one female student-athlete each year.

The Pac-10 Conference Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, which is composed of representatives from each member institution, selects the winners of the award each year from nominations submitted by each campus SAAC.  

To be eligible for the award, nominees must have completed their athletics eligibility, be enrolled in or plan to attend graduate school, have been a letterwinner in a varsity sport, and have served a minimum of one year on the campus SAAC. Other factors which may be taken into account during the selection process include other leadership activities, community service, grade point average, service as a SAAC officer, and level of athletic achievement.

Previous Winners

2001-02
Walter Chun, golf, University of California
Cicely Clinkenbeard, track & field, Washington State University

2002-03
Janell Bergstrom, softball, University of Oregon
Adam Chivara, wrestling, Arizona State University

2003-04
Nikki Neuberger, volleyball, Oregon State University
Jason Ranne, basketball, University of Arizona

2004-05
Molly Seaman, gymnastics, University of Washington
Emerson Ward, swimming, Arizona State University

2005-06
Darrell  Brooks, football, University of Arizona
Anna Chappell,  basketball, University of Arizona

2006-07
Caleb Kirk, gymnastics, University of California
Whitney Myers, swimming, University of Arizona

2007-08
Ingrid Kantola, track & field, UCLA
Justin Pollard, swimming, University of California

2008-09
Kyson Bunthuwong, gymnastics, University of California
D’Anna Piro, gymnastics, Oregon State University

2009-10
Sean Mustafa Abdul-Hamid, men's basketball, UCLA
Ariane Masschelein, women's tennis, Arizona