FOREST GROVE – Pacific first Northwest Conference men's cross country champion in 38 years and one of the most dominant swimmers in school history have been selected as the Boxer Club November Student-Athletes of the Month.
Tyler Shipley (Jr., Forest Grove, Ore.) and Katie Porter (Sr., McMinnville, Ore.) were selected for the honor by a vote of the board of directors of Boxer Club, the Pacific University athletics booster club.
Shipley made history at the NWC Cross Country Championships on Nov. 1 as he became the first Pacific men's cross country runner since Roger Hansen in 1976 to win the title. After finishing second as a sophomore, Shipley won a strategic race as he crossed the finish line in a time of 25:44.8. He was four seconds better than the second place finisher, Jacob Shafi of Willamette. For his victory, Shipley was selected as the NWC Men's Cross Country Runner of the Year.
Shipley finished his season with a 16th place finish at the NCAA West Regional Championship, earning All-West Region honors for the third time in his career.
Porter opened her final collegiate swimming season in dominant fashion, winning nine races in November and placing second in four others. She won eight of the nine individual events she competed in during the Boxers' four dual meets before ending the month with wins in the 50-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard freestyle relay at the Northwest Invitational on Nov. 22. For that performance, Porter was selected as the NWC Women's Swimming Student-Athlete of the Week as the Women Play Ball Division III Athlete of the Week.
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BOXER CLUB 2014-15 STUDENT-ATHLETES OF THE MONTHMonth Male FemaleSeptember 2014 Jack Perez, Football Kristina Morris, Women's Soccer
October 2014 Brandon Harms, Football
Stephenie Spencer, Cross Country
November 2014
Tyler Shipley Cross Country Katie Porter, Swimming
