Tide Athletics Holds Annual Scholarship Reception
6/12/2002 12:00:00 AM | General
TUSCALOOSA - Crimson Tide student-athletes were recognized for their accomplishments off the field of play at the annual Student-Athlete Academic Achievement Awards Reception on Monday night.
The yearly event hosted by the Center of Athletic Student Services (CASS) and the Student-Athlete Advisory Board (SAAB), was held in the ballroom at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel on campus.
During the 2001-02 academic year 115 University of Alabama student-athletes from 15 different sports earned Academic All-SEC honors. Women's tennis (3.68 GPA) and men's golf (3.25 GPA) were recognized for maintaining the highest team grade point averages over the past year.
Women's volleyball player Jen Wagner (4.00 GPA, Finance) and Men's Track and Field competitor Troy Henderson (3.76 GPA, Environmental Science) were named the top female and male scholar athletes of the year. The pair was joined on UA's Senior Top Six Scholar Athlete list by football player Patrick Hollingsworth (3.85, Chemical Engineering); women's tennis standout Rebecca Baum (3.95, Marketing) and a pair of women's golfers: Sarah Johnston (3.82, Management) and Lacy Shelton (3.96, Finance)
Johnston also topped the list as the overall winner of the Paul W. Bryant Student-Athlete Award for women's sports. Other nominees and individual women's sports winners included Baum (tennis), Wagner (volleyball), Andree Pickens (gymnastics), Kim Zarzour (soccer), Katie Sipe (basketball), Belinda Green (swimming), Suzanne Olcott (softball), Ashley LaBudde (cross country) and Nicole Ireland (track & field).
The overall men's Bryant Student-Athlete Award winner was Lance Cormier from the Alabama baseball team. The other male winners were Troy Henderson (track & field), Andrew Zow (football), Chris McRae (tennis), Nick Rousey (golf), Terrance Meade (basketball) and Grant Jollands (swimming).
In addition to academic awards, student-athletes were honored for their community service work. As a group, Crimson Tide players and coaches logged over 1,300 hours of community service last year.
For the second year in a row, the men's basketball team topped the list of men's squads with the most service hours while the women's volleyball team recorded the most community service hours among the women's programs.
A group of senior athletes were also named the Top Six Community Servants. The list included Pickens, Shelton, Zow, Dawn Battle (soccer), Reagan Tomasek (gymnastics) and Johnathan Richey (football).
