
Today's featured candidates are Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart and Natalja Piliusina.
MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR NOMINEE
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FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR NOMINEE
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Marcus Smart; Men's Basketball Freshman; Flower Mound, Texas ♦ Wayman Tisdale Award Winner (nation's top freshman by U.S. Basketball Writers Association) ♦ Consensus Second-Team All-American ♦ Sporting News Freshman of the Year ♦ Big 12 Player and Freshman of the Year ♦ Member of the USA Basketball U19 Team at the World Championships |
Natalja Piliusina; Cross Country, Indoor & Outdoor Track Junior; Klaipeda, Lithuania ♦ Won the NCAA Outdoor Championship in the 1,500 meters ♦ Became the second OSU female to win an individual outdoor NCAA championship ♦ Indoor and Outdoor All-American ♦ Won her fifth-straight Big 12 800-meter title (third indoors) ♦ Ran the top 1,500-meter time in the NCAA, a 4:09.57 at the Payton Jordan Invite |