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2005 NCAA Division I Women's All-Americans
2005 NCAA Division I Men's All-Americans
2005 NCAA Division I Women's Tournament results
2005 NCAA Division I Men's Tournament results
Kirkup joins Florida staff as assistant to Burleigh.
Northwestern suspends women's program while it investigates hazing incident.
Chappel takes over as Columbia coach, promising return to success.
Tabatznik resigns as coach at Georgetown after 22 years.
Porter becomes sixth Akron coach after Lolla moves to Louisville.
Hennessy hopes to end Delaware losing streak as new coach.
Columbia makes Ficken retire after 27 years as coach.
Rammel resigns at Saint Mary's to join MLS Galaxy.
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NCAA women Sinclair receives top national honor; Weimer gets Big Ten award.
Sinclair, 23, who also captured the Hermann Trophy as the best women's collegiate player in 2004 and 2005, became the third soccer player to earn the Honda-Broderick honor, following North Carolina's Mia Hamm (1994-95) and Notre Dame's Cindy Daws (1996-97). "To hear that I’m the best collegiate female athlete, it kind of blows my mind," Sinclair said. "There are so many great athletes in college. So many great athletes got nominated for this award and to be chosen is a huge honor. . . Most importantly, I’d like to thank my teammates. Soccer is a very team-oriented sport and I was only one person of a team of 22 this year. I couldn’t have done anything on the field without my teammates." Sinclair's recognition came on the same day that Penn State forward Tiffany Weimer was named Suzy Favor "Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year." Sinclair and Weimer are coming off their senior seasons in which the staged a battle for the Division I scoring lead, a contest eventually won by Sinclair who scored an NCAA-record 39 goals to Weimer's 32. Sinclair and Weimer also share the NCAA record for scoring a goal in 17 straight games. The announcement of the Honda-Broderick Cup going to Sinclair was made by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program in the Low Library at Columbia University. Jackie Joyner-Kersee, who was the Honda-Broderick winner as a track star at UCLA in 1984-85, presented Sinclair with the award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic achievement, but team contributions, scholastics and community involvement. "This is a tremendous achievement for the most deserving of individuals," Portland president Reverend E. William Beauchamp said. "Christine has always been a stellar athlete, but her most defining characteristics are her qualities as a student, teammate and friend. She is intelligent, unselfish and determined -- all distinguishable traits that everyone associated with the university and athletics in general can appreciate. Her service to the University and the sport of women's soccer will undoubtedly leave an imprint for years to come."
Sinclair was selected as the winner by a vote of the board of directors of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program. "It’s hard to see myself as a role model or inspiration," Sinclair said. "I just play soccer and go about my business, but I think it’s good for people to have females to look up to." A native of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Sinclair helped the Pilots capture their second NCAA crown by scoring seven postseason goals. With 110 career goals, she is one of six players to exceed 100, and also had 30 assists. With 10 assists, Sinclair totaled 88 points in 2005, the second highest total ever in an NCAA season. She finished her career at Portland with 252 points, fourth highest in the NCAA history, as well as putting away 38 game-winning tallies. In 2001, she led Division I freshman with 22 goals and then was first in the nation with 26 goals in 2002. After taking 2003 off to play for Canada in the Women's World Cup, she scored 22 goals as a junior, tying her for fourth in Division I. Sinclair, a member of Canada's national team since 2000, has 55 goals in 75 appearances and played a major role in her nation advancing to the semifinals of the 2003 Women's World Cup. In 15 games with the Canada under-20s, Sinclair had 22 goals, 10 in leading her side to second place in the 2002 Under-19 Women's World Championships. She currently plays for the Vancouver Whitecaps in the W-League.
"It is humbling to know that I was considered not only the conference's top women's soccer player, but also the conference's top female athlete," Weimer said of the Suzy Favor award. "My teammates deserve credit for this as well. Our success this year winning the program's eighth straight (Big Ten) title and going to the College Cup depended as much on them as it did on me." Weimer is the fifth Suzy Favor winner for PSU, which joined the Big Ten in 1992. She and former teammate Christie Welsh, who received the honor in 2001, are the only soccer players to receive the award in its 26-year history. Both Weimer and Welsh are currently part of the United States women's residence camp in Carson, Calif., where preparations have begin for this year's CONCACAF Women's World Cup qualifying tournament. "I think Tiffany and Christie being the only two soccer players on this list speaks volumes for our program," Nittany Lions coach Paula Wilkins said. "While they are two very different, yet incredibly talented individual players, they represent years of Penn State success by our team as a whole on the field." Weimer's 2005 totals of 32 goals, 91 points and 13 game-winning goals established new Big Ten single-season highs.
EVANSTON, Ill.-- Jenny Haigh, the embattled coach at Northwestern, stepped down last Tuesday following the hazing scandal at her school. Northwestern director of athletics Mark Murphy suspended the team May 15, the same day as it was discovered 46 photos of a women's soccer team hazing party were posted on a file-sharing web site under the title "Freshman Initiation." In the photos, team members were seen in T-shirts, underwear and knee-high socks and involved in what would be appear to be underage -- and it might seem excessive -- drinking. In some instances, the players were blindfolded with their hands taped behind their backs, in others being forced to do calisthenics. Some pictures have the women kissing each other and, in two cases, performing lap dances on men. In several photos, the women are shown with things written on their faces, legs and clothes. At the time of Haigh's resignation, it was announced the team's suspension was lifted; however, returning team members who participated in the incident face suspension and\or probation. A search for a new coach is in progress. Haigh went 38-46-10 (.457) in five seasons at Northwestern. In 2004, the Wildcats had their first winning season (10-8-2) and conference record (5-4-1) since 1998, following thatlast fall by going 9-9-1 overall, but only 2-7-1 in the Big Ten. "I would like to thank Northwestern University and Mark Murphy for providing me with the opportunity to serve as the head women's soccer coach," Haigh said in a Northwestern press release. "I appreciated my time and experience at Northwestern very much." Do you have a comment on this story or something to say about soccer in general? Send us a letter. |
