Marcus Mariota spent a lot of time at awards shows during his junior season at Oregon, and now the former Ducks quarterback has yet another reason to dress up in a suit and tie for the cameras this summer.

Mariota joins Boston University hockey player Jack Eichel, Wisconsin basketball player Frank Kaminsky, Ohio State wrestler Logan Stieber and Vanderbilt baseball player Dansby Swanson as Best Male College Athlete nominees for ESPN's ESPY Awards.

Mariota isn't the only nominee with ties to the state.

Former Franklin High School basketball star Shoni Schimmel is also nominated, for the year's best play, after her spinning basket in the WNBA All-Star game last summer against the defense of Brittney Griner.

Mariota won UO's first Heisman Trophy in December along with an unprecedented haul of awards for an Oregon player, earning honors for college football's best quarterback (Davey O'Brien and Unitas awards) and best player (Maxwell, Walter Camp and Associated Press awards). He went on to lead Oregon to a 59-20 Rose Bowl victory against Florida State and eventual No. 1 NFL draft choice Jameis Winston. Mariota went on to become the draft's No. 2 pick, by the Tennessee Titans.

Each of Mariota's fellow nominees is similarly decorated in his field, court, rink or mat. Swanson won an NCAA championship in 2014 and has Vanderbilt back in the College World Series title matchup for a second consecutive year after being the No. 1 overall pick in June's MLB draft.

Kaminsky was named college hoops' national player of the year and led Wisconsin, like Mariota, to a berth in his sport's national championship game. Stieber became only the fourth wrestler in college history to win four individual national championships in a career and led Ohio State to its first NCAA team championship in the process. And Boston's Eichel is the 2015 Hobey Baker Award winner, which goes to college hockey's best player.

Online fan voting, which will be open until just before the show is broadcast at 5 p.m. July 15, will determine the winners of "most" of the awards, ESPN said.

-- Andrew Greif

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