By: Bob Sims

Former Kennedy stars Alli Madison and Mitch Penner won All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference honorable-mention honors for women's and men's basketball teams, respectively, this week.

Madison, a senior 5-foot-8 guard, is a starter for the top-ranked Division II Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves (27-1). Madison averaged 10.1 points scoring and 5.0 rebounds in 28 starts. She lead, or tied for the lead, six times in rebounding this season. She had 44 steals.

Penner, a 6-foot-5 forward for Seattle Pacific University, is scoring 13.4 points, 5.7 rebounds, a 2.0 assists a game. He scored a game-high 18 in a win over Northwest Nazarene in the the regular-season finale.

Alaska-Anchorage and Seattle Pacific are each playing their first games in the GNAC Tournament in Billings, Mont., on Friday. Unranked SPU (21-7, 13-5) is pursuing its 11th consecutive NCAA Division Tournament appearance.