NCAA'S TODAY'S TOP VIII RECIPIENTS NAMED
INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Honors Committee has named the recipients of the NCAA Today's Top VIII Awards. The Today's Top VIII Award winners are a group of distinguished student-athletes from the 2003 calendar year who will be recognized for their academic and athletics achievements, character and leadership at the 39th annual NCAA Honors Dinner January 11, 2004, at the NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Today's Top VIII are:
Alice (Duesing) Nightingale, Lake Superior State University, basketball;
Andrew Hilliard, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), football and track and field;
Craig Krenzel, Ohio State University, football;
Theresa Kulikowski, University of Utah, gymnastics;
Kara Lawson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, basketball;
Eli Manning, University of Mississippi, football;
Kristin Sterner, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, gymnastics; and
Leoandra Willis Rogers, University of California, Los Angeles, gymnastics.
Two of the honorees were the 2003 NCAA Woman of the Year finalists from Tennessee and Alabama, and five of the Top VIII were recipients of NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships. In addition to their athletics accomplishments, the NCAA Today's Top VIII recipients have earned numerous academic honors, volunteered countless hours to community projects and served as role models for their academic institutions and to their peers.
Posted by Ron at December 26, 2003 02:30 PM