June 6, 2001

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. - The winner of the Honda Award as the NCAA Division I Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year will be announced this coming Monday. UNC soccer player Meredith Florance is one of 12 finalists for the award.

The 25th annual collegiate woman athlete of the year banquet will be June 11 at Salt Lake City, Utah, site of the 2001 National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Convention. The Honda Award is presented annually in 12 sports and those winners are also candidates to receive the Honda-Broderick Cup as 2000-01 Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The winner will be determined by separate balloting of all NCAA-member instituions. Last year's Cup winner was Columbia University swimmer Cristina Teuscher.

Honda-Broderick Cup finalists for 2000-01 are: Jen Adams (lacrosse) of Maryland, Mohini Bhardwaj (gymnastics of UCLA, Greichaly Cepero (volleyball) of Nebraska, Marina DiGiacomo (field hockey) of Old Dominion, Jennie Finch (softball) of Arizona, Meredith Florance (soccer) of North Carolina, Laura Granville (tennis) of Stanford, Kara Grgas-Wheeler (cross country) of Colorado, Candy Hannemann (golf) of Duke, Misty Hyman (swimming and diving) of Stanford, Jackie Stiles (basketball) of Southwest Missouri State and Brenda Taylor (track and field) of Harvard. All Honda Award winners are automatically nominated for Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year honors.

The awards program is sponsored by American Honda Motor Co., Inc.