Fink Wins Oregon Sports Small College Athlete of the Year Award
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon Tech's Mitchell Fink has been named the 2019 Ad Rutschman Male College Athlete of the Year Award as part of the Oregon Sports Awards.
The Ad Rutschman Small College Athlete of the Year Award goes to the outstanding male and female student-athlete representing the state’s 14 schools at the NCAA Division II and III and NAIA levels, along with ten community colleges. Over the past 16 years, nine women and six men from the CCC have been selected.
Fink, a CCC Co-Player of the Year in 2017-18, was once again a consistent force on both sides of the ball for the 2018-19 regular-season champion Owls, averaging 13.7 points per game, dishing out a CCC-best seven assists per contest, and ranking third in the conference with 1.7 steals per game. A gifted scorer, distributor, and defender, Fink has firmly established himself as one of the conference’s most complete overall players.
A native of Clackamas,Oregon Fink was honored as a first team performance All-American this past season leading the Hustlin' Owls to a runner-up finish in the NAIA D II Men's Basketball Championships. The first team nod followed his selection to the third team All-American squad in 2017-18. Fink is majoring in Communication Studies.
For more than 60 years, the Oregon Sports Awards have honored outstanding achievements by Oregon preps, collegians, amateurs, pros, teams and coaches. The Small College Athlete of the Year award, named after a former football and baseball coach at Linfield College, has been awarded every year since 2001. Finalists were nominated and selected through a statewide voting panel consisting of TV, radio and sports journalists, and respected sports professionals.
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