 The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. The awards just keep on rolling in for the BSU men's hockey team earlier today. Michael Bitzer was named first team all-american and senior forward Brendan Harms was named the 2016-17 Senior Class Award recipient. An acronym for celebrating loyalty and achievement for staying in school. The senior class award focuses on the total student athlete and encourages students to use their platform and athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities. Harms is the first BSU student athlete to receive the award given out to the most outstanding senior student athlete and D1 men's hockey. It's definitely an honor for sure. Just to be nominated in the first place to get into the top 10 for this award was pretty cool and to hear that I won it was definitely a good feeling for sure. It's a tremendous honor. Playing here in Bemidji State you get to meet so many people in the community it's a smaller community so they do a lot for us. We get a chance to get great coaching and to be able to do good things on the ice but then we also get the chance to go out in the community and help out campus cleanup go to the boys and girls club just they always provide things for us to do and it's it's definitely an honor to get this award especially being here for four years I've had a great time so it's been it's been good. Harms leaves BSU with 88 career points in 141 games ranking him on the top 12 in the Beaver's D1 era scoring list he also owns a 4.0 GPA as a business administration major he is set to graduate this spring. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.