CU's Annual Senior Banquet Held Sunday
BOULDER — Junior wide receiver Laviska Shenault, Jr., was named the University of Colorado's most valuable player at the team's annual senior banquet Sunday afternoon at the Dal Ward Athletic Center.
Shenault, who announced this past Tuesday that he will forego his senior year in declaring for the National Football League draft, is just the sixth player in school history be named the team's MVP on multiple occasions. The first year of the award was in 1959.
Joe Romig remains the only three-time recipient of the honor, as the guard/linebacker won it his sophomore through senior years (1959-61); Shenault joins James Mayberry (running back, 1977-78), quarterback Darian Hagan (1989, 1981), and receivers Rae Carruth (1995-96) and Nelson Spruce (2014-15) as two-time winners.