ASHLAND – Southern Oregon senior runner Jared Hixon completed a postseason awards sweep Thursday when he collected the most historically elusive one yet.

The fifth-year Raider from Palmdale, Calif., was voted the Cascade Conference's 2015-16 Red Lion Male Athlete of the Year for all sports, the CCC office announced, becoming just the second Raider to take the award in conference history. Last week he was named the CCC Men's Track and Field Athlete of the Year, the week before that he became a national champion, and two weeks before that he was the men's runner of the meet at the CCC Championships for collecting a pair of titles.

Hixon won the 1,500 meters at the NAIA Outdoor Championships with a time of 3:52.73 after entering the race as the No. 7 seed. Eric Avila, who in 2014 became the first Raider to be named the CCC men's athlete of the year, was also a 1,500-meter champion that year to go with his indoor (distance medley relay) and cross country titles.

Northwest Christian's Sierra Brown, a junior and Medford native, earned women's athlete-of-the-year honors after earning NAIA All-America hardware in cross country, the 1,500 meters and the 5K.

Hixon is the 13th men's NAIA outdoor champion in SOU history. At the Cascade Conference Championships, he won both the 1,500 (3:53.76) and the 5K (14:30.42). He'd never before earned all-conference (top-three) honors at the meet, but he scored for the Raiders as they won titles in his sophomore (2012), junior (2014) and senior seasons.

Counting the postseason, Hixon won each of his last five races. His 5K time at the CCC meet was also the fourth-fastest in school history.

Hixon stamped the big finish on top of a year that started with disappointment: He placed sixth at the CCC Cross Country Championships – his third straight All-CCC finish, contributing to SOU's eighth straight championship – but his bid to become a cross country All-American for the second year in a row and lead second-ranked SOU to a title was spoiled by illness that kept him out of the NAIA Championship race.

He'll leave Ashland with one of the most decorated résumés in Raider history, including four All-America accolades – two in the 1,500 (he placed fourth in 2014 before a redshirt season in 2015), one in cross country, and one with SOU's runner-up indoor distance medley relay team last year. His career personal bests were 3:51.13 in the 1,500 and 14:30.42 in the 5K.