Candy Hannemann of Duke University, the 2001 NCAA individual
golf champion, has been named winner of the Honda Award as the top woman
collegiate athlete in her sport for the 2000-01 collegiate year,
according to the results of national balloting among NCAA-member
schools.
As the Honda Award winner for golf, Hannemann, a junior from Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil/Hilton Head, S.C. (Hilton Head H.S.), won the NCAA
title on the first hole of a sudden death playoff with Arizona'
Lorena Ochoa. Hannemann' title and Honda Award are firsts for a Duke
golfer. In addition to her national championship, she posted six other
top five finishes (one victory) during the season and twice shot her
season-low round of 68. Hannemann had a 72.88 strokes-per-round average
in 11 tournaments, and was named the 2001 Atlantic Coast Conference
Player of the Year. She was selected National Golf Coaches Association
first team All-America for the first time in her career. Hannemann
finished second overall at the 1999 NCAA Championships to Honda Award
winner Grace Park of Arizona State.
Previous Honda Award winners for golf include Furman' Beth
Daniel (1977), San Jose State' Patty Sheehan (1980) and Julie Inkster
(1982), Arizona State' Wendy Ward (1994-95) and Kellee Booth (1998),
and last year' winner, Jenna Daniels of Arizona.
Hannemann will soon be joined by other women collegiate athletes
voted as the most outstanding in the sports of lacrosse, 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, Laura Granville (tennis) of
Stanford; Kara Grgas-Wheeler (cross country) of Colorado, Meredith
Florance (soccer) of North Carolina, 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.####
