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June 22, 1998

Holdsclaw named Honda-Broderick top woman athlete

Chamique Holdsclaw, the most valuable player in leading the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to its third consecutive NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship, was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup June 14 as the nation's top collegiate woman athlete.

The junior from Astoria, New York, who plays guard, forward and center, had the second-best single-season totals in Lady Vols history -- 915 points and a 23.5 points-per-game average. She also had 328 rebounds, 117 assists and led the Southeastern Conference in steals throughout the season, finishing with 110 and a per-game average of 2.8.

Holdsclaw also won the Honda Award for basketball for the second straight year.

She and winners in 10 other sports were selected by a national vote involving more than 800 NCAA schools. They were honored at the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year dinner, which was conducted in Marco Island, Florida, in conjuntion with the annual convention of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

Past Honda-Broderick Cup winners have included Cindy Daws of the University of Notre Dame; Jennifer Rizzotti and Rebecca Lobo of the University of Connecticut; Mia Hamm of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Lisa Fernandez of the University of California, Los Angeles; Missy Marlowe of the University of Utah; and Dawn Staley of the University of Virginia.

The award is sponsored by the American Honda Motor Company.