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Barkley, Washington honored by PSU

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Athletics has announced its Male and Female Student-Athletes of the Year, with football’s Saquon Barkley, the 2018 NFL No. 2 overall draft pick, and women’s volleyball’s Haleigh Washington, a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, earning the honors for the highly-successful 2017-18 academic year. Both earned first-team All-America honors this past year.

Barkley, a junior, and Washington, a senior, will be on the ballot for Big Ten Male and Female Athletes of the Year with honorees from the other 13 conference institutions.

The honors are the latest in a long list of accolades for the two standout student-athletes.

Barkley, the No. 2 overall pick of the 2018 NFL Draft by the New York Giants, was a unanimous NCAA Consensus All-America, earning first-team selections from AFCA (running back), Sporting News (athlete), Associated Press (all-purpose), Football Writers Association of America (all-purpose) and Walter Camp (running back).

This honor is the latest for Washington, who most recently was named as Penn State’s recipients for the prestigious Big Ten Medal of Honor for 2017-18 and a 2017-18 recipient of the Ernest B. McCoy Award.

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