Eight Vikings named GNAC FAR Academic Award winners

Eight Western Washington University student-athletes were named recipients of Great Northwest Athletic Conference Faculty Athletics Representative’s Scholar-Athletes awards for 2014-15 announced by the conference office on Monday, July 27.

The award, which began in 2012, is presented annually and honors the most outstanding scholar-athletes at each of the GNAC’s 11 universities. To qualify, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.85.

WWU student-athletes honored were freshman men’s track and field sprinter Alex Binkerd, computer science pre-major, 3.96; junior women’s track and field javelin thrower Bethany Drake, Art, 3.87; junior women’s track and field and cross country runner Taylor Guenther, communication sciences & disorders, 3.88; sophomore women’s track and field and cross country runner Maddy Jalbert, biochemistry, 3.94; sophomore women’s track and field jumper Jasmine McMullin, English literature, 3.91; freshman women’s rower Karisa Stapp, accounting, 3.88; senior men’s soccer forward Matt Temple, manufacturing engineering technology, 3.88; and sophomore women’s track and field and cross country runner Shawna Troupe, kinesiology, 3.90.

It is the third honor for Jalbert and the second for McMullin and Troupe.

This story was originally published July 27, 2015 at 2:22 PM with the headline "Eight Vikings named GNAC FAR Academic Award winners."