Arizona State softball player Katelyn Boyd and football player Aaron Pflugrad have been awarded with Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal for the 2012 academic school year. 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.
During her senior campaign, Boyd helped her squad to its third Women’s College World Series appearance in her four years at ASU. Off the field, the three-time Academic All-American led a team that was recently recognized for its Academic Progress Rate (APR), which ranked in the top 10 percent nationally with a score of 997 out of 1,000. Read more about ASU’s APR standings here.
Individually, Boyd is one of the most decorated softball student-athletes in the program’s history – she is a three-time All-American and her named appears in the ASU record book 25 times. After concluding her collegiate career, Boyd turned around her storied Sun Devil playing days with an invitation to try out for Team USA Softball and subsequently was named to its Elite Team in early June.
Pflugrad, a three-year member of the Sun Devil football team, was a first team Academic All-District, semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy and was named to the Biletnikoff Award Watch List for the outstanding college football receiver.
Following his spring 2011 graduation with a degree in marketing, Pflugrad was one of two 2012 recipients of the postgraduate scholarship awarded by the National Football Foundation and the College Hall of Fame. In May, he was named a member of the 2012 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, which honors college football players with a 3.2 grade point average or better.
