The 2017-18 Sun Devil Pac-12 Tom Hansen Medal of Honor awards, as announced by the conference Tuesday, are Maggie Ewen and Kodi Justice. The honor is given annually to an outstanding senior male and female student-athlete from each of the conference's 12 institutions for "the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics, and leadership."Thank you Sun Devil nation for your incredible support all season long. pic.twitter.com/QRDXdXxgLb
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Ewen's historic senior season in Tempe came on the heels of her breakout season in the hammer throw. Back in 2017, Ewen exploded onto the scene when she set the collegiate record in the hammer, won the unprecedented treble at the Pac-12 Championships and scored 21 points at the NCAA Championships with a win in the hammer and two other All-America honors in the shot put and discus. She topped herself this season by winning three NCAA titles, setting two collegiate records and winning five conference titles while also being named a Bowerman Award finalist for the second consecutive year. Ewen won her first U.S. Championship title this past weekend in the shot put and took second in the discus competition. Her summer of competition will continue at the Athletics World Cup in London next month.
Justice, who earned his B.S. in sociology in 2017, became the 37th member of the Sun Devil 1,000-Point Club and ended No. 33 with 1,043 career points as he helped lead ASU to the NCAA Tournament in 2018, along with the first undefeated non-conference season (12-0) in school history as the team reached No. 3 in the Associated Press rankings. He averaged 13.0 points per game in final 37 games of career (7.2 in first 78) and his 217 three-pointers made is seventh-best in school history. His 402 career three-point percentage is tied for fifth-best in school historyTop 3 Baby!
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Ewen recently wrapped up her historic ASU career in dramatic fashion when she won the NCAA discus title on her final throw of the competition and her final throw in maroon and gold.More than Basketball: How the game helped Kodi Justice to overcome dyslexia and how it became a source of strength.
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Two days prior to her discus gold, Ewen won the outdoor shot put title to complete the season sweep of the event as she had taken first place indoors back in March. Her two titles from last weekend made her the only woman in collegiate history with wins in the hammer throw (2017), discus and shot put. It was just the sixth time in championship history that a woman won both the shot and discus at the same NCAA Championship.
Her 20 points scored at the NCAA Championships were the joint-most by a woman in the competition and earned Ewen her second-straight high-point honor as last season she put up 21 in three events.
Ewen came into 2018 with the collegiate record in the women's hammer throw, but bested her old record three times in the same series at the 39th Sun Angel Classic in April. She would finish 2018 having put up five of the eight best hammer throw marks in NCAA history, including four of the top-five and the record of 74.53m/244-6 feet.
In the shot put, Ewen had an even more impressive season, winning both NCAA titles, becoming one of four women to ever top 19 meters indoors, and setting the collegiate record outdoors.
Her throw of 19.46m/63-10.25 feet at the Desert Heat Classic in April broke the 2-year-old record by five inches. Although she came into the season without a mark in the all-time top-10 list, Ewen recorded an astounding seven of the 10 farthest throws in collegiate history in 2018 alone, including her title-winning heave at the NCAA Championships that was the second-farthest in championship history. With her second-straight sweep of the hammer throw, discus throw and shot put at the Pac-12 Championships, Ewen tied a Pac-12 record with seven career individual titles. She ended her MPSF career with five titles and her first sweep of the shot put and weight throw.
Ewen's name is at the top of the ASU record books in the indoor and outdoor shot put, hammer throw and weight throw, and she is second in the discus only to Leslie Deniz' mark that is third in NCAA history.
In her four years of competition at ASU, Ewen earned 11 first-team All-America honors, won 11 conference titles and four NCAA titles, and is a three-time honorable mention academic all-Pac-12 team member. Ewen recently graduated from ASU in May with a degree in health and wellness.
#college #basketball Arizona State's Kodi Justice doesn't let learning disability slow him down - A diagnosis of dyslexia didn't stop Arizona State guard Kodi Justice from finding success. Instead, he used the learning disability as positive. ... https://t.co/hp9IgMPcJB
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