Washington’s Teves is Pac-12 Men’s Football Scholar and Sportsman of the Year

PAC-12 SCHOLAR ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

SAN FRANCISCO – WASHINGTON’s Dylan Teves was voted Pac-12 Men’s Football Scholarship Holder of 2021, the league announced on Friday. Awarded in each of the 24 Pac-12 sponsored sports, the award was established to honor college student athletes who excel academically as well as in their sport.

A business administration: Finance major with a grade point average of 3.69, Teves is the current top scorer of the Pac-12 with 12 goals and 31 points. He is the fifth husky in the league to receive this honor and the first since 2011 (Brent Richards).

Fueled by Teves’ consecutive hat-tricks in the first two games of this postseason, the Huskies are ahead of their first-ever NCAA College Cup appearance with a quarterfinal win over Saint Louis. Teves’ six goals to date this postseason is the second highest in a single NCAA tournament and just below the record of seven set by Appalachian State’s Thompson Usiyan in 1978.

As a candidate for the MAC Hermann Trophy 2021, the midfielder from Kailua, Hawaii received his second Pac-12 First Team All-Conference award this fall, along with being named Pac-12 Player of the Week (August 11th) and to a trio of the national teams of the week (09.11., 23.11., 30.11.). He was a semi-finalist for the Hermann Trophy and First Team All-American for the 2020 season, in which he was third in the Pac-12 with seven goals and 19 points. He climbed to seventh place in Conference history with 72 points and is 10th of all time with 25 goals and 22 assists.

Teves was named First Team Scholar All-American by the United Soccer Coaches for the 2020 season and was inducted into the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll twice. He’s also on the ballot for the 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America Honors, after being elected to the All-District 8 First Team on Nov. 11.

To qualify for the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, undergraduate athletes must be a senior (with an athletics qualification), be on their way to graduation, have an accumulated grade point average of 3.0 or higher, at a minimum Participate in 50 percent of the planned competitions in the sport and reside at the institution for at least one year. Each Pac-12 institution can nominate one person per sport, and the winners are selected by a committee of Pac-12 staff at the end of each sport’s regular season. The athletic performance of the nominees will be taken into account when voting on the award.

A Scholar-Athlete of the Year is chosen in each of the 24 sponsored sports of the Pac-12: baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, beach volleyball, men’s cross-country skiing, women’s cross-country skiing, soccer, men’s golf, women’s Golf, Women’s Gym, Women’s Lacrosse, Men’s Rowing, Women’s Rowing, Men’s Football, Women’s Football, Softball, Men’s Swimming & Diving, Women’s Swimming & Diving, Men’s Tennis, Women’s Tennis, Men’s Athletics, Women’s Athletics, Women’s Volleyball and Wrestling. The award was first established in the 2008/09 academic year.

ALSO NOMINATED: Lucas Churchill, CALIFORNIA; Tyrone Mondi, OREGON STATE; Zach Ryan, STANFORD.