Notre Dame left tackle Ronnie Stanley has won the 2015 Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award.

“My mom was born in Tonga,” Stanley said in a release. “I’m very proud of our culture and I am honored to be selected as the Polynesian College Football Player of the Year.”

Stanley, who is of Tongan descent, is the second winner of the award, whose inaugural recipient was Oregon Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Marcus Mariota in 2014.

The 6-foot-6, 315-pound Stanley spurned the NFL to return to Notre Dame for his redshirt junior season, anchoring an Irish offensive line that helped pave the way for a ground attack that averaged a modern school record of 5.76 yards per carry. Stanley himself finished the regular season with a 97.3 percent pass block success rate.

Stanley will be formally presented with the award on Jan. 29, 2016.

Other finalists for the award were Oregon’s Deforest Buckner, USC’s Su’a Cravens, UCLA’s Ka’imi Fairbairn and USC’s Juju Smith-Schuster.