Jen Adams, who broke her own NCAA single-season scoring record to help lead the University of Maryland to its seventh straight NCAA lacrosse championship, has for the second consecutive year been named winner of the Honda Award as the top woman collegiate athlete in her sport, according to the results of national balloting among NCAA-member schools. Adams was also last year’s inaugural Honda Award winner for lacrosse.
As the Honda Award winner for lacrosse, Adams, a senior midfielder from Brighton, South Australia (Brighton H.S.), scored 88 goals and contributed 60 assists, for a record 148 points, eclipsing her previous mark by 12 points. Honored as the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year for the second year in a row, she was also named to the IWLCA and U.S. Lacrosse All-America teams, as well as the NCAA All-Championship team. Adams averaged 6.73 points per game and registered team highs in ground balls (71) draw controls (63) and turnovers caused (36). A communications major, Adams was a GTE Academic All-American selection.
Adams will soon be joined by other women collegiate athletes voted as the most outstanding in the sports of softball, and track & field, plus previously announced winners Mohini Bhardwaj (gymnastics) of UCLA, Greichaly Cepero (volleyball) of Nebraska, Marina DiGiacomo (field hockey) of Old Dominion, Meredith Florance (soccer) of North Carolina, Laura Granville (tennis) of Stanford; Kara Grgas-Wheeler (cross country) of Colorado, Candy Hannemann (golf) of Duke, Misty Hyman (swimming and diving) of Stanford, and Jackie Stiles (basketball) of Southwest Missouri State. All Honda Award winners are automatically nominated for Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year honors.
The Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year will be determined by separate balloting involving all NCAA-member institutions. The announcement of the winner and presentation of the Honda-Broderick Cup will be made at the 25th annual Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year banquet, June 11 at Salt Lake City, Utah, site of the 2001 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Convention.
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. sponsors the awards program.
