Derek Eager can add yet another accolade to his already chock-full athletic resume — Gatorade Washington Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year.

Eager, who just graduated from Tahoma High, was honored on Tuesday with the award that recognizes both athletic and academic excellence as well as “exemplary character demonstrated both on and off the track.”

“Derek Eager is an exceptionally gifted athleted,” said Justin Buckner, an assistant coach at Kentwood High, in a statement. “His marks alone put him in the elite class of throwers nationwide. Few athletes can excel in a single throwing event, even fewer can excel in two, but to excel in all three is just simply unheard of.”

Listed at 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds, Eager swept the javelin, discus and shot put at the league and district meets, won state titles in discus and javelin then finished second in shot put.

He is a 2009 USATF National Junior Olympics javelin champion. He hurled a throw of 229 feet, 5 inches at the Pasco Invitational in April, which ranked him third in the country among prep competitors at the time, and only eight other high school athletes have thrown the javelin farther.

Eager earned a 3.73 grade point average at Tahoma and was a distinguished honors graduate. In addition to playing sports he volunteered as a peer tutor and camp counselor. He also coordinated Washington’s Best Throwers Camp, a one day clinic in Seattle where he was assisted by a number of Olympians.

He has signed a letter of intent to compete at UCLA.

Now Eager is a finalist for the Gatorade national Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year award to be announced later this month.

For more information on the Gatorade Athlete of the Year program, log on to playeroftheyear.gatorade.com.