SAN ANTONIO – For the second consecutive year, Oregon has two finalists vying for the most prestigious individual award in collegiate track and field, The Bowerman Trophy. Two-time finalist Edward Cheserek is in the running once again, joined by teammate Jenna Prandini as the pair will hope to hear their names called at the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association convention, Thursday night.

Cheserek is joined by fellow finalists Akron pole vaulter Shawn Barber and Florida jumper Marquis Dendy on the men's side. Prandini is up against Kentucky hurdler Kendra Harrison and Stephen F. Austin pole vaulter Demi Payne.

The ceremony will be streamed live on USTFCCCA.org on Thursday, starting with the Bowerman Arrival Party at 4:30 p.m. PT with the presentation scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m. ESPN personality John Anderson will host the ceremony, as he has done in four of the last six years.

Prandini was the most prolific NCAA Championships point-scorer of the 2015 season, racking up a total of 49 points between the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships. At the indoor national championships, she won the long jump, was runner-up at 200 meters and fourth at 60 meters for 23 points. In the outdoor competition, she won at 100 meters, and was runner-up both at 200 meters and in the long jump for 26 more. Her 26 points helped the Ducks win their first NCAA outdoor title in 30 years. Prandini's time in the 100 meters was the second-fastest in collegiate history (10.92) and her 200-meter outdoor time the fourth-fastest at 200 meters (22.21). Both times are Oregon school records.

Cheserek won four individual NCAA titles this season in indoor and outdoor, combined, claiming top honors in the mile at the indoor meet, and the 5,000 and 10,000 meter races in the outdoor competition. Also at the indoor competition, he ran the anchor leg for the winning distance medley relay and was runner-up at 3,000 meters to teammate Eric Jenkins . Cheserek ran three sub-four-minute miles during the indoor season, including two at the NCAA Indoor Championships along with a school record time of 3:56.43 at the Millrose Games. His performances helped the Ducks sweep the indoor and outdoor national titles this season.

Oregon has had nine finalists since The Bowerman Trophy was created in 2009 along with three winners, both of which are the most of any college in the country. Galen Rupp and Ashton Eaton won back-to-back years in 2009 and 2010 while Laura Roesler was the first Oregon woman to earn the trophy in 2014.