STANFORD, Calif. - Cameron Brink (women's basketball) and Ky Robinson (men's cross country/track & field) have been named Stanford's 2023-24 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal recipients.
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.
Cameron Brink • Women's Basketball • Beaverton, Ore. • Communication
Selected second overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft by the Los Angeles Sparks … 2021 NCAA champion … Four-time Pac-12 champion (2021-24) … Two-time Pac-12 Tournament champion (2021-22) … 2024 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year … 2024 Lisa Leslie Award (nation’s top center) … 2023 WBCA Defensive Player of the Year … Three-time WBCA All-American (2022-24) … Three-time Associated Press All-American (2022-24) … Three-time USBWA All-American (2022-24) … Two-time Wooden Award All-American (2023-24) … 2024 Pac-12 Player of the Year – Coaches and Media … 2022 Pac-12 Player of the Year – Media … Three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year – Coaches and Media (2022-24) … Four-time All-Pac-12 – Coaches and Media (2021-24) … Three-time Pac-12 All-Defensive Team – Coaches and Media (2022-24) … 12-time Pac-12 Player of the Week (second-most all-time) … 424 career blocks are the 14th most in NCAA history and second in Pac-12 history … Career totals of 1,892 points, 1,223 rebounds, 226 assists and 424 blocks make her the third player with 1,800 points, 1,200 rebounds, 200 assists and 400 blocks in the past 25 years along with Brittney Griner (Baylor) and Courtney Paris (Oklahoma) … Tenth in school history in scoring, fifth in rebounds and first in blocks … Only player in Pac-12 history with 1,800 points, 1,200 rebounds and 400 blocks … Owns the second-longest streak of made free throws in NCAA history (73) … As a senior, was the only player in the country to average 17.0 points (17.4), 11.0 rebounds (11.9) and 3.0 blocks (3.7) per game and the ninth major conference player to do it since 1999-2000 … Finished with a PER of 45.75, the best mark for a major conference player since 2018-19 … Led the country by averaging 3.74 blocks per game as a senior … Fifth nationally in rebounds per game in 2023-24, averaging a team-best 11.9, the third best in program history behind Chiney Ogwumike in both 2012-13 (12.9) and 2013-14 (12.1) … 127 blocks as a senior broke her own school record set a year prior (118) and are the third-most in Pac-12 history … Also became the first college player with 500 points, 300 rebounds and 100 blocks in back-to-back seasons since UConn's Breanna Stewart (2014-16) … An advocate for mental health, utilized her platform to inspire others, speaking candidly about her own mental health journey and promoting self-care and mindfulness … Created her own basketball camp for girls in her native Oregon, Next22.
Ky Robinson • Men's Cross Country/Track & Field • Brisbane, Australia • Management Science & Engineering
Two-time 2023 NCAA outdoor track and field champion (5,000 meters, 10,000m) … 2023 Men's Outdoor Track National Athlete of the Year ... 2023 West Region Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year … 2023 West Region Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Year … 13-time All-American, including nine First Team honors in track & field … 2023 NCAA West Region cross country champion … 2023 Pac-12 Men's Cross Country Athlete of the Year … Owns the second-fastest indoor 3,000 time (7:36.69) in collegiate history (any-sized track), an Australian record for that distance indoors or outdoors … Owns the third-fastest indoor 5,000 (13:06.42) in collegiate history, an Australian indoor record … During 2023-24, won Pac-12 titles in cross country, 5,000 and 10,000 to become the first to sweep the Conference's long-distance titles in the same academic year since 2009-10 (Chris Detrick, Stanford) ... In NCAA nationals during the 2023-24 academic year, placed a personal-best third in cross country, third in the 5,000 and fifth in the 3,000 at the NCAA Indoor Championships, and third in the 5,000 at NCAA Outdoors … On the Pac-12 track and field lists of all-time top marks, Robinson is No. 2 in the 3,000, No. 3 in the 5,000, and No. 8 in the 10,000 ... Represented Australia senior national team in World Championships in T&F and XC … Stanford school-record holder in the steeplechase and 5,000, and indoor 3,000 … Australia and Oceania under-20 steeplechase record-holder … Led Stanford to West Region XC team championships in 2021, 2022, and 2023 and three Pac-12 team XC championships (2020-21, 2022, 2023) … Three-time All-West Region XC (2021, 2022, 2023) … Three-time All-Pac-12 XC first team (2021, 2022, 2023) … All-Pac-12 XC second team (2020-21) … 2023 Men's Outdoor Track Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... 2023 First-team Academic All-American ... Pac-12 Men's Cross Country Scholar Athlete of the Year (2023) … Five-time USTFCCCA All-Academic (XC 2021, 2022, 2023; T&F 2022, 2023) … Participated in all community service team activities.