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Candace Parker Named Honda Sports Awards Winner
By Basketloon
Posted: April 19th, 2007 @ 11:11am
Candace Parker brings Tennessee its first Honda Sports Award Winner since Chamique Holdsclaw won in 1998. "I am so blessed to be surrounded by teammates and coaches who make the Lady Vol basketball program successful," stated Parker. "I am honored to win the Honda Sports Award, but I know nothing this season would have been possible without my teammates."
The Collegiate Women's Sports Awards recognize the top collegiate woman athletes in each of 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. Each of those 12 women receive an automatic nomination for The Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year, who is awarded with the prestigious Honda-Broderick Cup on June 25th in New York. American Honda Motor Co., Inc. sponsors the program. They donates $5,000 to each Honda Sports Award recipient school. The award is based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA schools.
Candace is now the second-most decorated Lady Vol, only in her sophomore year, receiving 28 honors to date. Among her awards this season, Parker received the John R. Wooden Player of the Year, State Farm Wade Trophy Player of the Year, Southeastern Conference Player of the Year, Kodak All-American, ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American and the Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
Other nominees for this years award in women's basketball were Sylvia Fowles (LSU), Lindsey Harding (Duke), and Ivory Latta (UNC). Honda also donates $1,000 to each of the nominee's universities, in their honor.
The SEC boasts seven previous Basketball Honda Sports Awards recipients:
1986-87 Katrina McClain,Georgia
1988-89 Bridgette Gordon, Tennessee
1996-97 Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee
1997-98 Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee
2004-05 Seimone Augustus, LSU
2005-06 Seimone Augustus, LSU
2006-07 Candace Parker, Tennessee
The Honda-Broderick Cup had come to the SEC three times in the 31 years. A swimmer from Florida, Tracy Caulkins received it twice, in 1982 and 1984. Tennessee's Chamique Holdsclaw won it for the only time an SEC woman won it for basketball, in 1997-98.
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