SEATTLE (June 24) -- Stephanie Huffman, a three-time conference champion and All-Amerca in track & field for Seattle Pacific University, has been selected as the Great Northwest Athletic Conference female athlete of the year for 2001-02.

Huffman and male recipient Mike Hinshaw of Western Oregon came out on top in a vote of the athletic directors from the 10 GNAC schools.

Huffman (Sr., Brush Prairie, Wa./Prairie), who earlier was voted Seattle Pacific's co-athlete of the year for the third time and conference track athlete of the year, scored 14 points for the Falcons in the NCAA national meet, placing second in the javelin (149-9) and third in the heptathlon (5,389 points).

She also led the SPU women to the GNAC track-and-field crown, winning titles in the long jump (18-1), javelin (148-4) and heptathlon (4,867) and finishing second in the triple jump (36-7) and high jump (5-4 1/2) and fifth in the 100 hurdles (15.59).

Hinshaw was a three-sport all-star for Western Oregon. In football, he earned all-conference honors as a wide receiver, catching 44 passes for 717 yards and eight touchdowns. In indoor track-and-field, he won All-American honors in the 60 meters. Outdoors, Hinshaw won conference titles in the 100 meters (10.76), 200 meters (21.82), 4x100 (42.14) and 4x400 (3:20.20). He also competed in the NCAA meet in the 200, setting a GNAC record with a time of 21.11.

Nichole Sauvageau of Seattle University and Erik Totten of Western Washington have been named the GNAC Female and Male Scholar Athlete-of-the-Year awards, respectively.