Media Release May 28
Ewing, NJ… The
College of New Jersey senior Karen Doane (Bridgewater, NJ/Bridgewater-Raritan)
has been nominated by the Board of Collegiate Women Sports Awards as a candidate
for the 2007-2008 Division III Athlete of the Year representing lacrosse.
This spring, Doane led the Lions’ women’s lacrosse team in scoring with
a career-high 67 goals and 81 points as the team finished their successful
season with a 17-2 record and advanced to the NCAA Division III semifinals for
the 23rd time in the 24-year history of the tournament. She was also named to
the 2008 NCAA All-Tournament Team.
Doane, a marketing major with a 3.39
grade-point-average, is a three-time All-American and capped her career at TCNJ
fifth in goals scored with 192 and sixth in points with 248. She is a candidate
for her fourth All-American citation with those teams being released later this
week. The midfielder is a four-time all-region selection and was the 2007 ECAC
Metro Player of the Year. Doane was a key member of TCNJ’s back-to-back national
championship teams in 2005 and 2006 and was selected to the 2006 NCAA Division
III All-Tournament Team.
She also excels academically being named 2008
CoSIDA’s ESPN The Magazine All-District At-Large First Team and now moves on to
the national ballot and is a candidate for the National College Division
Academic All-America Team, which will be announced on June 12. She earned
second-team honors in 2007. Doane is also a four-time TCNJ Scholar-Athlete and
was named to the 2007 IWLCA Division III Academic Honor Roll.
The
Collegiate Women Sports Awards program has completed its 32nd year and
recognizes the top woman collegiate athlete in each of 11 sports in Divisions II
and III as nominees for the Division II and III Athletes of the Year. The
program also honors the recipients of the Honda-Broderick Cup and the Honda
Inspiration Award.
Divisions II and III athletes are nominated by
national coaches associations for each of the 11 sports: basketball, cross
country, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving,
track and field and volleyball. The athletes are placed on ballots emailed to
all Divisions II and III Senior Women Administrators in June every year and the
Athlete of the Year for each division is determined by the outcome of the
voting.
In addition, the 12 Division I Honda Sports Award winners are
determined by balloting throughout the year to all NCAA senior woman
administrators for each of 12 sports. These Division I athletes are also
nominated by national coaches associations. After balloting for each sport, the
winner of each of the 12 sports is a nominee for Collegiate Woman Athlete of the
Year to be given the Honda-Broderick Cup. The ballot for the Collegiate Woman
Athlete of the Year completes the balloting and takes place later in June.
The Inspiration Award winner is determined separately by a call to all
NCAA Sports Information Directors for nominations, making a total of 15 award
recipients in the program.
The awards program is sponsored by American
Honda Motor Co., Inc. and to celebrate these awards American Honda Motor Co.,
Inc. donates $1,000 to the women’s athletic fund of each Honda Sports Award
nominee’s university and each Division II and III nominee’s university. The
Division II and III winner’s institutions, along with the Honda-Broderick Cup
and the Inspiration Award recipients’ schools receive $5,000 each.
A
press conference will be held June 23, 2008 at Columbia University in New York
City to announce and present The Divisions II and III Athletes of the Year along
with the recipients of the Honda-Broderick Cup the Honda Inspiration Award.
DIVISION III ATHLETE OF THE YEAR RECIPIENTS
1987-1988 Jessica
Beachy, basketball (Concordia College)
1988-1989 Anna Prineas, track and
field (Carleton College)
1989-1990 Yvonne Grierson, swimming (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
1990-1991 Ann Gilbert, basketball (Oberlin College)
1991-1992 Kim Oden, track and field (Nebraska Wesleyan University)
1992-1993 Jennifer Carter, swimming (Kenyon College)
1993-1994 Carla
Ainsworth, swimming (Kenyon College)
1994-1995 Amy Albers, volleyball
(Washington University)
1995-1996 Shelley Swan, volleyball (Washington
University)
1996-1997 Turena Johnson, track and field (Luther College)
1997-1998 Tiffany Speckman, cross country (University of Wisconsin -
Oshkosh)
1998-1999 Kelly Schade, softball (Simpson College)
1999-2000
Alia Fischer, basketball (Washington University)
2000-2001 Tasha Rogers,
basketball (Washington University)
2001-2002 Julia Bergofsky, field hockey
(Middlebury College)
2002-2003 Libby Hysell, softball (Central College)
2003-2004 Mary Ellen, Gordon tennis (Emory University)
2004-2005 Missy
Buttry, cross country (Wartburg College)
2005-2006 Megan Silva, basketball
(Randolph-Macon College)
2006-2007 Liz Bondi, tennis (Depauw University)
