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USA Field Hockey's Rachel Dawson is the 2008 Honda Sports Award winner as the nation's top field hockey athlete.

USA Field Hockey's Rachel Dawson Named Field Hockey Honda Award Winner

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  – USA Field Hockey National Team member and Univ. of North Carolina senior Rachel Dawson has been named the Honda Sports Award winner as as the nation’s top collegiate female field hockey athlete. The honor was based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA member schools as part of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program, now in its 32nd year.

With the honor, Dawson becomes third member of the current U.S. National Team to earn the Honda Award joining current USA teammates Kelly Doton (Wake Forest, 2003-04) and Tiffany Snow (Old Dominion, 2002-03) as winners of the college game's top individual award.

Dawson was the top vote getter among a group of finalist that included National Team teammate Katie O'Donnell (Univ. of Maryland) and former USA Junior National Team members Jen Long (Penn State) and Pam Spuehler (Boston Univ.). The candidates were selected by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association.

A senior back/midfielder from Berlin, New Jersey, Dawson led the Tar Heels in goals scored with 19 and captained the Tar Heels to the NCAA title and a 24-0 season. Named ACC Defensive Player of the Year for the second time, the two-time All-American was also named ACC Tournament MVP and National Player of the Year. Dawson was a 2006 nominee for the International Hockey Federation's WorldHockey Young Player of the Year.

As the winner of the field hockey award, Dawson will join athletes from 11 other NCAA women's sports as nominees for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The award is determined by separate balloting involving all NCAA-member institutions with the winner receiving the Honda-Broderick Cup at a ceremony in New York in June 2008.

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. sponsors the Collegiate Women Sports
Awards Program.
 

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