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The NCAA News - News and FeaturesThe NCAA News -- January 4, 1999 TOP VIII awards The Today's Top VIII recognizes distinguished student-athletes from the preceding calendar year for athletics, academic achievement, character and leadership. The honorees will be recognized January 10 during the NCAA honors dinner.
The 1998 NCAA Woman of the Year was the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) national player of the year in 1997 and 1998. Boutilier also was a two-time south regional all-American in field hockey in 1994 and 1997. Boutilier led the Cavaliers' lacrosse team to national runner-up finishes in 1996 and 1998, earning all-tournament honors each year. In field hockey in 1997, she led Virginia to its first NCAA semifinal appearance. Active internationally in both sports, she was a member of the 1998 U.S. national team and the 1996 U.S. national developmental team in lacrosse. In field hockey, she played on the 1994-95 U.S. under-21 team and was on the gold-medal team at the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1993 and 1994. The 1998 Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse player of the year also was all-ACC in 1997. She set school records by starting 71 consecutive lacrosse games and 88 straight field hockey games.
An NCAA postgraduate scholarship winner, Virginia's 1997-98 Outstanding Female Athlete also was honored with the school's Gray-Carrington Scholarship.
A four-time all-American in volleyball and a 1998 all-American in basketball, Folkl was a member of three national-champion volleyball teams and two basketball teams that advanced to the Women's Final Four. A three-time member of the Division I women's volleyball all-tournament team, she was named most outstanding player at the 1996 NCAA Pacific Regional. The 1994 national volleyball freshman of the year also was a first-team volleyball all-American in 1994 and 1997 and earned second-team honors in 1995 and 1996. In 1995, she toured with the U.S. national volleyball team. In basketball, Folkl earned all-American honors from Kodak, Top 5 Boost/Naismith, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and Associated Press. She also made the Pacific-10 Conference first team in 1998. She was all-conference in volleyball four times, as the Cardinal teams on which she competed amassed a combined 210-19 record. The 1997 GTE Academic All-American Volleyball Player of the Year also was a first-team GTE Academic All-American in basketball in 1998
and a second-team GTE volleyball honoree in 1996.
A two-time Division III champion in the 118-pound weight class, Gerten helped lead the Auggies to the Division III championship as team co-captain in each of the last two years. The team finished second in 1996, when he finished fourth individually. Gerten posted a career record of 104-7, giving him a school-record winning percentage of .937. He holds the school's longest individual winning streak at 64 straight from 1996-98. As part of that streak, he became the first Augsburg wrestler to complete an undefeated season, going 44-0 in 1997. A transfer from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he earned a varsity letter as a freshman, the two-time National Wrestling Coaches Association Scholar All-American graduated cum laude as an elementary education major.
A member of Augsburg's Fellowship of Christian Athletes, he coaches youth wrestling at Eastview High School and is an assistant coach for the Minnesota/USA Wrestling Cadet freestyle wrestling team. During the 1998-99 season, Gerten is serving as an assistant wrestling coach for his alma mater.
A silver medalist in one-meter diving at the 1998 World Championships, Ilyina won the gold medal in the European Championships the previous year. A Russian national team member since 1996, she has won numerous other international competitions, including one-meter diving at the 1997 European Championships, one- and three-meter diving at the 1995 edition of the same meet, and three-meter diving at the 1994 Goodwill Games. Ilyina is a two-time NCAA female diver of the year and a four-time national collegiate champion. The 1997-98 Big 12 Conference female athlete of the year holds conference records for both the one- and three-meter events. One of the most decorated student-athletes in Texas history, she won all 11 one-meter competitions in which she competed in two years with the Longhorns and won all but one of the three-meter events in which she competed.
An international business major, Ilyina was a GTE Academic All-American in 1997-98, was twice named to the academic all-Big 12 Conference team, and was presented with Texas' Big 12 Scholar-Athlete Award, the athletics department's highest student-athlete honor.
The Division II female swimmer of the year in 1998, McDaniel is a three-time Division II national champion and the division's record-holder in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle. A nine-time Division II all-American, McDaniel was a two-time Division I all-American before transferring to Ashland from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She was the 1998 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference female swimmer of the year and is the conference record-holder in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle. She also is a four-time individual and two-time relay GLIAC champion. While at Tennessee, McDaniel was a Southeastern Conference finalist in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races. Recognized as Ashland's 1998 Female Athlete of the Year, she owns three individual school records and is part of three freestyle relay school records.
McDaniel was a College Swimming Coaches Association of America all-academic honoree in 1997 and 1998, and is a dean's list elementary education major.
A four-time all-American and two-time finalist for the Hermann Trophy, which honors the most outstanding collegiate soccer player, Stauffer was a three-time finalist for the Missouri Athletic Club Sports Foundation Collegiate Soccer Award, which recognizes the top American-born or naturalized college player. A member of the 1997 U.S. national team pool, she was a member of the U.S. women's youth national team from 1991-96 and was an Olympic Festival all-star team selection in 1995. The 1995 and 1996 Ivy Group player of the year and 1994 rookie of the year, Stauffer was all-Ivy four times while guiding the Crimson to three league championships and three NCAA tournament appearances. Harvard's all-time assists leader led the Crimson to a 50-13-5 overall record and a 24-1-3 Ivy mark during her four-year career. A GTE Academic All-American, Stauffer won the Michigan Book Award in honor of excellence in English and the Williams Book
Award in honor of integrity, leadership, excellence in academics and extracurricular activities.
A Outland Trophy candidate and one of 12 finalists for the Lombardi Award, both of which recognize the nation's outstanding lineman, Stinchcomb was a 1997 first-team coaches all-American and was a preseason all-American for seven different organizations this fall. First-team all-Southeastern Conference in 1997, Stinchcomb was a four-year starter, helping lead Georgia to a Peach Bowl berth as a senior captain. He was voted 1998 NCAA Division I Athlete of the Year by the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame. A National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Postgraduate Scholarship recipient in 1998, he was a first-team GTE Academic All-American in 1997 and was named an all-District III Academic All-Ameri-can twice. Stinchcomb was one of 10 scholar-athletes to receive Georgia's Ramsey Endowed Scholarship in 1997 and 1998. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society and Who's Who in American Colleges of Business.
Stinchcomb was a member of the American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team for the past two years and the SEC Good Works Team in 1996 and 1997.
The Canadian record-holder for the indoor mile, Sullivan was the U.S. Track Coaches Association's 1998 indoor athlete of the year. He also is the former Canadian record-holder for the outdoor 1,500 meters and mile. He was a silver medalist in the 1994 Commonwealth Games in the 1,500 meters, an event in which he finished fifth at the 1995 World Track and Field Championships and 13th in the 1997 World meet. Sullivan set the NCAA record for the indoor mile in 1995 and was a member of the national champion indoor distance medley relay team that same year. A 10-time track all-American, he won his second NCAA indoor mile in 1998. A four-time cross country all-American, he finished second in the Division I championships in 1997, eighth in 1995, third in 1994 and fourth in 1993. Sullivan was a 12-time Big Ten Conference track champion and four-time cross country champion, and was a three-time indoor and two-time outdoor conference track and field athlete of the year. He also was a three-time GTE Academic All-American and five-time academic all-Big Ten selection. |
Margaret "Peggy" H. Boutilier
Kristin Folkl
Henry A. Gerten
Vera S. Ilyina
Jamie McDaniel
Emily Stauffer
Matthew Stinchcomb
Kevin R. Sullivan