STANFORD, Calif. -- The Pac-12's top individual honors are heading to Stanford this season.
Andrew Luck won the Pac-12's offensive player of the year award Monday and David Shaw took home the honor for the league's best coach in his first season.
Eleven Utes were named to the 2011 all-conference teams, placing three on the first team, two on the second team and awarding six honorable mentions.
Senior offensive lineman Tony Bergstrom, junior defensive lineman Star Lotulelei and senior defensive lineman Derrick Shelby were voted to the first team, while junior running back John White and senior offensive lineman John Cullen made the second team.
Shelby was one of just three players to make both the all-Pac-12 first team and the Pac-12 all-academic first team, joining Luck and California OL Mitchell Schwartz.
Luck became the fifth player to twice win the award, voted on by league coaches. He joins USC's Reggie Bush, Washington State's Rueben Mayes, Stanford's John Elway and Southern California's Charles White in that elite class.
The Heisman Trophy hopeful threw for 3,170 yards and 35 touchdowns, breaking the Stanford single-season record of 32 he set a year ago. He also has 80 touchdown passes in his career, eclipsing Elway's mark of 77 -- and doing it in only three years.
Shaw, the former co-offensive coordinator, took over for Jim Harbaugh and has guided the fourth-ranked Cardinal (11-1, 8-1) to consecutive 10-win seasons.
California linebacker Mychal Kendricks won defensive player of the year. The senior leads the Golden Bears and ranks fourth in the Pac-12 with eight tackles per game and 96 total.
USC wide receiver Marqise Lee and Oregon running back De'Anthony Thomas shared freshman offensive honors. USC linebacker Dion Bailey was awarded freshman defensive player of the year. Despite serving the second and final year of a postseason ban that is keeping the program out of the inaugural league title game, USC had the most players on the all-conference first-team with seven. Stanford had six and Oregon five.
White ranks second in the Pac-12 and 11th in the nation in rushing, averaging 117.00 yards per game. Earning honorable mention recognition were senior special teams star Greg Bird, senior defensive back Conroy Black, sophomore linebacker Brian Blechen, junior defensive back Ryan Lacy, junior placekicker Coleman Petersen and senior linebacker Chaz Walker.
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