USC’s Johnnie Blockburger and Claudia Shevitz Named 2023-24 Tom Hansen Medal Winners

USC Athletics | June 18, 2024

USC’s Johnnie Blockburger and Claudia Shevitz join a powerful group of Pac-12 student-athletes named as 2023-24 Tom Hansen Medal winners. A Pac-12 Conference Medal is awarded annually to each member institution’s outstanding senior male and female student-athlete based on the exhibition of the greatest combination of performance and achievement in scholarship, athletics and leadership.

Conference medal winners have been named every year since the 1960-61 academic year. In 2009, the Pac-12 renamed the award the Tom Hansen Conference Medal in honor of Hansen, who retired at the end of June 2009 after serving for 26 years as Commissioner of the Pac-10.

The 2024 Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Year, Johnnie Blockburger is the third consecutive USC men’s track & field athlete to earn a Tom Hansen Medal, following 2023 winner Brendon Stewart and 2022 winner Earnie Sears III. A two-time 2024 All-American, Blockburger helped the Trojans to a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships earlier this month. He has won a combined nine Pac-12 titles in the 200m, 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m relay. His 2024 Pac-12 400m title was his third in four seasons, placing second to his teammate the other season. Blockburger ran the anchor leg for USC’s 2022 NCAA champion 4x100m relay, which won the national title with a school-record time of 38.49. He also ran the third leg for USC’s 2022 4x400m relay, which placed second at the NCAA Championships with the second-fastest time in school history of 2:59.98. Blockburger is ranked tied for third on USC’s all-time outdoor 400m list and ninth on the indoor 400m list with his time of 46.20. In his Trojan career, he has run on five of USC’s all-time top-10 4x100m relays and on three of its all-time top-10 4x400m relays.

A three-time member of the Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll and two-time team captain, Blockburger also was a 2023 USTFCCCA All-Academic selection. He is a member of USC’s SAAC group, Trojan Athletic Senate, serving on the Community Service subcommittee to help organize service projects within the LA community. Blockburger also was a Peer Educator in the Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion (JEDI) program at USC.

Claudia Shevitz is…