Former Husker All-American men's gymnast Anton Stephenson has been named a 2020 Today's Top Ten Award Winner, the NCAA announced on Tuesday. The prestigious award is given annually to 10 outstanding senior student-athletes from the previous academic year.
Stephenson becomes Nebraska's nation-leading 18th NCAA Today's Top Ten Award recipient and is the first since Mary Weatherholt (women's tennis) in 2014. Stephenson is the third men's gymnast to win the award following in the footsteps of Patrick Kirksey (1991) and Tom Schlesinger (1989).
A four-time All-American, Stephenson finished his impressive Husker career at the 2019 NCAA Championships where he finished third on vault and seventh in the all-around, helping Nebraska to a third-place finish, its best since 1999.