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2011-12 WWU Athletes of the Year
May 29, 2012 BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Men's basketball senior forward Rory Blanche, who helped the Vikings to a national championship, and junior Emily Warman, who starred in both women's soccer and track and field, have been named Western Washington University Male and Female Athletes of the Year, respectively, for 2011-12. The announcement was made Tuesday at the third annual Dub-Dub-Blue awards ceremony. Their names will be added to the G. Robert Ross Memorial Trophy. Blanche, a graduate of Ashland (Ore.) High School, led the Vikings to a 31-5 record and the 2012 NCAA Division II national championship, the first in the program's 110-year history. He was a first-team National Association of Basketball Coaches and Daktronics West Region all-star, Elite Eight and West Regional all-tournament pick and unanimous first-team Great Northwest Athletic Conference all-star. Blanche also was outstanding in the classroom, being named a first-team College Sports Information Directors of America Capital One Academic All-American and for the third time a Great Northwest Athletic Conference academic all-star. The team's captain and MVP, Blanche averaged 15.9 points and 6.9 rebounds, both team-leading figures. He shot 59.5 percent (244-of 410) from the field, which ranked 15th nationally. Blanche, who had 31 double-figure scoring games and seven double-doubles, both team highs, finished his four-year career ranked 13th among WWU point leaders with 1,273 points and ninth in rebounds with 544. Warman, a graduate of Sedro-Woolley High School, placed sixth at nationals with a school record effort of 40-7 in the triple jump to earn United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-America recognition. Warman's national mark also was an outdoor GNAC record and earlier this spring she tied a WWU standard in the long jump of 19-2 that had stood for 30 years. Warman, who redshirted in track last year, won the long jump at the GNAC Outdoor Championships. She placed second in both the long jump and triple jump at the conference indoor meet. As a freshman in 2009, Warman was the NCAA II national champion in the indoor triple jump. She holds school indoor records in that event, going 39-11 1/2 in 2010, and the long jump with a mark of 18-10 in 2009. Last fall, Warman earned first-team GNAC and second-team National Soccer Coaches Association of America West Region all-star honors as a senior defender in soccer. She helped the Vikings record 11 shutouts and post a 0.59 goals against average. WWU ATHLETES OF THE YEAR
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