The annual awards, voted on by the CCC’s athletic directors, are presented to one male and one female who have distinguished themselves on the field of play and in the classroom during the academic year.

 

Mattsen is a four year starter and four-time All-Cascade Conference women’s basketball performer. She graduated this spring with a degree in Human Biology/Pre Med and was named the Most Outstanding Science major for the graduating class. Her accumulative GPA was 3.76. Mattsen was chosen for the prestigious Murdock Scholars Program, where she performed original research and presented a paper on the effects of anemia on the mitral valve of fetal sheep using 4D Echocardiography.

 

In addition, Kelsey has done volunteer work for Mt. Scott Elementary School, the WPC Alumni Organization, the WPC athletic department’s golf tournament, and WPC basketball camps.

 

Already an extensively accomplished student, Gaynor, a Concordia men’s soccer student-athlete, has been on the CTAS Dean’s List since 2009 and has a 3.94 GPA as chemistry major at Concordia. However, Gaynor also found time to Intern in the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory within the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory last summer, where his development of a chemical sensor for Hydrogen Peroxide won second place in a poster competition between all the summer interns.

 

In addition, Gaynor participated in a Nuclear Reactor Training program at Reed College in the fall of 2010, helped plan the TEDx conference at Concordia last year and served on the Student Athlete Leadership Team during the 2010-11 school year. Gaynor currently interns at the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre, works as a laboratory assistant in the Concordia chemistry department and tutors math and science at Concordia. On top of all that, Gaynor will meet with congressmen from Oregon and Washington in Washington D.C., next month to present a general research proposal.

 

Gaynor has also already submitted papers to several publications, including one on his research last summer and two Spanish translations he worked on in conjunction with his work for the Shakespeare Authorship Research Centre. Consequently, Gaynor was named a third-team Capital One Academic All-American, a Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete and a member of the Academic All-CCC team in 2011.

 

Coming this week, the conference office will release the CCC Champions of Character Award recipients Wednesday, and the conference Athletes of the Year Friday.