SEATTLE – The Seattle Pacific Athletics Department congratulates basketball player Shaw Anderson and pole vaulter Lizzy Daugherty as this week's SPU Athletics Falcons of the Week.
 
 
SHAW ANDERSON / MEN'S BASKETBALL
WHAT HE DID: Last Thursday at home against Central Washington, Anderson scored 33 points, the last two of which came on a putback game-winner with 3.3 seconds left as SPU edged the Wildcats, 77-75. Anderson shot 13 of 25 from the field had six rebounds and five assists in that game. On Saturday, he pumped in 17 points to help the Falcons edge Northwest Nazarene, 66-64. That pushed his career total to 1,802, moving him past both David Downs (1,786) and Dustin Bremerman (1,797) and into the No. 2 spot on the school's all-time scoring list. The only one ahead of him now is Loren Anderson, who racked up 1,948 points from 1955-58.
 
QUOTABLE: He's just special," interim head coach Keffrey Fazio said. "I've said it 100 times, and I'll keep saying that we're lucky to be here while Shaw's at SPU. Guys like this come around every so often. There's nobody that I've coached that deserves the accolades he'll have earned more than Shaw. He's the hardest worker, he's never complained, whined, or had a bad attitude at any point during his time here. As members of the SPU community, we couldn't ask for a better person to be doing this, because he's about everything right."  
 
 
LIZZY DAUGHERTY / WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD
WHAT SHE DID: Daugherty put her first career indoor 12-foot pole vault mark into the books, clearing 12 feet, 3½ inches at the George Fox Indoor last Saturday in Newberg, Oregon. That put her onto the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying list as well as giving her first place in the meet. Daugherty's all-time best is 12-4, which she has cleared twice in outdoor competition.
 
QUOTABLE: "She has been working incredibly hard all year, and I knew come in last fall that she was going to step it up because of how fit and strong she came in," said assistant coach Kate Carlson, who works with the pole vaulters. "She's reaching a place right now where she is just becoming a technician, and that's really fun to see. There's sort of a switch that flips. All of a sudden, (she has done) all that physical hard work, and then you can start working mentally on making corrections in her actual vault, and things are going to come together and she's ready to level up."