STANFORD, Calif. - Alex Williams (baseball) and Brooke Forde (women's swimming and diving) have been selected as Stanford's 2021-22 Pac-12 Tom Hansen Conference Medal recipients.
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.
Conference medal winners have been named every year since the 1960-61 academic year. In 2009, the Pac 12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10.
Alex Williams • Baseball • Castro Valley, Calif. • Management Science & Engineering
- Collegiate Baseball All-America first team (2022)
- NCBWA All-America second team (2022)
- ABCA/Rawling All-America third team (2022)
- College Baseball Foundation National Pitcher of the Year semifinalist (2022)
- Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year (2022)
- Biff Hoffman Award winner (2022)
- Freshman All-America (2019)
- CoSIDA Academic All-America first team (2022)
- Pac-12 Scholar Athlete of the Year (2022)
- Senior CLASS Award All-America first team (2022)
- Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020-22)
- Volunteered with the Miracle League and participated in visits to children's hospitals
- Worked at baseball camps, where he helps develop the youth in the area
- At home in Castro Valley, Calif., has volunteered at his local church leading a youth bible study for children ages 4-12
Brooke Forde • Women's Swimming and Diving • Louisville, Ky. • Human Biology (BS)/Epidemiology (MS)
- Two-time NCAA team champion (2018-19)
- Four-time Pac-12 team champion (2018-20, 2022)
- Five-time NCAA national champion
- 19-time NCAA All-American
- Six-time Pac-12 champion
- Olympic Silver Medalist in the 800-meter freestyle relay (2020)
- Completed undergraduate degree in human biology with a 3.96 GPA in 2021, completed master's in epidemiology with a 4.2 GPA
- CoSIDA At-Large Academic All-American of the Year (2021)
- Three-time CoSIDA Academic All-America first team (2020-22)
- Four-time CSCAA Scholar All-American (2018-21)
- Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2021)
- Three-time Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020-22)
- Co-president of the Stanford Student-Athlete Sustainability Committee
- Pac-12 Sustainability Committee
- Spearheaded a Zero Waste initiative at Stanford football game with recycling, e-waste, and donation drives that were duplicated during basketball season
- James Lyons Community Service Award
- Volunteers with the Special Olympics
- Joining the Peace Corps after graduation to be a public health officer in rural Peru