SAN FRANCISCO – Oregon State fifth-year senior Madi Dagen has been named the 2023 Pac-12 Women’s Gymnastics Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the Conference office announced today. The award, which is presented in each of the 24 sports the Pac-12 sponsors, was established to honor collegiate student-athletes that are standouts both academically and in their sports discipline. Dagen is the first Beaver to earn the honor since Madeline Gardiner in 2017. 

The Pleasanton, California native completed her undergraduate degree in Human Development and Family Sciences with a 3.85 grade-point-average and currently holds a 4.0 GPA in her Leading and Creating Change Graduate Certificate program. Dagen is highly accomplished in the classroom, earning four WCGA Scholastic All-American honors (2019-22) while being named a Pac-12 Winter Academic Honor Roll recipient each of the last three years.

The senior is just as impressive on the apparatuses, collecting several honors throughout her career. As a junior, Dagen was named a 2021 WCGA Regular Season All-America Second Team selection in vault after she earned All-Pac-12 First Team nods in vault and balance beam that year. In all, Dagen has five All-Pac-12 honors as she was also a 2022 All-Pac-12 First Team award recipient in the all-around last season, earned All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention on balance beam as a sophomore in 2020 and was named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team on balance beam in her first season in 2019. 

Dagen has been a key member of a Beavers squad that has earned a share of the Pac-12 regular season title each of the last two seasons. This year, the senior helped the Beavers to a historic performance in a win at Stanford, picking up the vault title with a 9.925 as Oregon State broke the 198 mark for the first time in program history with a 198.075. In her final meet at Gill Coliseum, Dagen scored a 9.925 on beam and matched her career-high of 9.950 on floor to secure the upset win over No. 4 Utah, capping the Beavers’ second-straight season going unbeaten at home.

In order to be eligible for the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, student-athletes must be a senior (in athletics eligibility) on track to receive a degree, have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, participate in at least 50 percent of the scheduled contests in the sport and have a minimum one year in residence at the institution. Each Pac-12 institution may nominate one individual per sport, and the winners are selected by a committee of Pac-12 staff members at the conclusion of each sport’s regular season. The athletics accomplishments of the nominees are a consideration in voting for the award.

A Scholar-Athlete of the Year is named in each of the Pac-12’s 24 sponsored sports: baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, beach volleyball, men’s cross country, women’s cross country, football, men’s golf, women’s golf, women’s gymnastics, women’s lacrosse, men’s rowing, women’s rowing, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, softball, men’s swimming & diving, women’s swimming & diving, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s track & field, women’s track & field, women’s volleyball, and wrestling. The award was first established during the 2007-08 academic year. 

ALSO NOMINATED: Brenna Brooks, WASH; Madison Brunette, STAN; Nevaeh Desouza, CAL; Malia Hargrove, ARIZ; Jillian Hoffman, UTAH; Jordyn Jaslow, ASU.