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Big 12 Athlete of the Year honor for Texas A&M’s Jessica Beard IRVING - Texas A&M senior Jessica Beard and Taylor Jungmann of Texas were named 2010-11 Big 12 Athlete of the Year by the conference office. Nominees for the annual award are submitted by each Big 12 institution and selected, based on athletic performance, academic achievement and citizenship, by a media panel as well as fan voting conducted through the Big 12’s social media sites. Beard, a native of Euclid, Ohio, becomes the first Texas A&M nominee, male or female, to be honored as the Big 12 Athlete of the Year.

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