Swimmer Misty Hyman of Stanford University, the NCAA champion in the 200-meter butterfly (1:53.63) and a member of two NCAA record-setting relay teams (200 and 400 medley), has been named the top woman collegiate athlete in her sport for the 2000-2001 collegiate year, according to the results of national balloting among NCAA-member schools. As a freshman, Hyman also won the 1997-98 Honda Award for swimming & diving.
As the Honda Award winner for swimming and diving, Hyman, a senior from Phoenix, Ariz. (Shadow Mountain, H.S.), earned seven All-American honors at the NCAA meet, to become only the second woman swimmer in Stanford history to earn the maximum 28 All-American honors over four years. She is a 12-time NCAA champion. Hyman had 16 first-place and five second-place finishes in dual meets. At the Pac 10 Championships, Hyman set conference records in the 100 and 200 butterfly, won the 100 backstroke (53.52) and was a member of her school's record-setting relay teams in the 400 medley and 800 free. She won the gold medal in the 200 butterfly at the 2000 Olympics at Sydney, with an American-record time of 2:05.88. An international relations major, Hyman had a 3.25 grade-point average.
Previous Honda Award winners for swimming and diving include Stanford's Jenny Thompson (1995), Summer Sanders (1992) and Janet Evans (1990). Columbia's Cristina Teuscher (2000), California's Mary T. Meagher (1985, 1987), Florida's Tracy Caulkins (1982-83-84), and Jill Sterkel (1980-81) of the University of Texas, also won the Honda-Broderick Cup, honoring the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.
Hyman will be joined later this year by other women collegiate athletes voted as the most outstanding in the sports of basketball, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, softball, tennis, and track & field, plus previously announced winners Greichaly Cepero (volleyball) of Nebraska, Marina DiGiacomo (field hockey) of Old Dominion, Kara Grgas-Wheeler (cross country) of Colorado, and Meredith Florance (soccer) of North Carolina. 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.
