SPU ATHETIC DIRECTOR JACKSON STAVA INTRODUCES 2020 ATHLETIC AWARDS WEEK
SEATTLE – Leadership. Service. Intangibles.
Inside or outside of an eight-oared boat,
Kaitlin Dickinson is highly regarded as bringing those qualities in abundance to the Seattle Pacific rowing shellhouse.
Dickinson's season ended way sooner than she had planned when the coronavirus pandemic forced the worldwide shutdown of sporting events at all levels.
But those qualities kept on shining.
Kaitlin Dickinson (center)
For all of those reasons, Dickinson has been named this year's winner of the John Glancy Award.
It's the seventh year the award has been presented as part of Seattle Pacific's year-end athletic honors. It goes to a student-athlete who displays distinctive personal and team-oriented qualities that don't show up in a box score.
The award is named in honor of Dr. John Glancy, a former track and basketball athlete and a lifelong Falcon who gave 47 years of distinguished service to the school in many capacities before retiring in 2017.
"We either achieve or fail as a boat and as a team. But that doesn't mean one individual can't make a huge difference, and that is exactly what Kaitlin has done over the past four years," SPU head coach Andy Derrick said in nominating Dickinson for the award.
As the Falcons headed into the spring with their sights set on a second straight trip to the NCAA national regatta, Dickinson was looking to continue making a difference.
Regardless of what happened on the water, that's what mattered most to her. Mattered most to the 30 other women on the team who looked up to her. Mattered most to the SPU coaches who valued not only what she did in the No. 2 seat on the national-caliber varsity eight boat, but for what she did outside of those 6¾ gut-wrenching, grueling minutes on race days.
"It is not an overstatement," Derrick remarked, "to say that there is no way we would have had the growth and success we have enjoyed over the past several years without Kaitlin's leadership and her support in getting team buy-in of my message and our goals."
Congratulations Kaitlin!
