Carolin BouchardBoston College's Carolin Bouchard is a two-time all-Big East team member and owns school records for three-point field goals made and attempted in a career. The team captain helped her team to a No. 17 finish in the ESPN/USA Today poll for 2000 and was selected to compete for Canada at the Olympics in Sydney.
Graduating summa cum laude, the accounting major was named the Boston College Outstanding Female Scholar-Athlete four times and became the first student-athlete in school history to earn the university's highest honor, the Edward H. Finnegan Award. The Rhodes Scholar candidate also earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
Bouchard appeared on Big East public service announcements, promoting diversity and tolerance. She also volunteered for the BC Athletics Pen Pal Program, the Higher Education and Assisted Reading program and numerous projects through the BC Women's Basketball Community Service program.
Amanda Colby
Bates College
Volleyball
A middle hitter for the Bates College volleyball team, Amanda Colby was an all-conference selection in 1999 and 2000, as well as a second-team all-American last year, leading her team to a second-place finish in the New England Small College Athletic Conference.
A biochemistry major, Colby was a second-team GTE/CoSIDA academic all-American in 2000, and she is a three-time academic all-conference pick as well. Her work has been published in the research journal "Chiralty," and she was selected as a Merck fellow, receiving a grant to conduct independent research and help organize a scientific lecture series.
Colby has served as a mentor for local elementary school children, and she's also participated in numerous "read-ins" at the school. Her volunteer positions have included being a teacher's assistant, tutoring chemistry students and coaching high-school tennis. She's also served as a resident coordinator at her dormitory and as a lab assistant.
Jessica Dailey
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Indoor and outdoor track/Cross country
A twelve-time all-American in track and cross country, Jessica Dailey has served as team captain in both sports. She's been an all-conference first-team pick five times, and a second-team selection another five times, leading her teams to numerous first-place finishes in the Southeastern Conference.
Dailey is a summa cum laude graduate in journalism and a two-time GTE/CoSIDA academic all-American. She's spent six consecutive semesters on the Fulbright College Honor Roll and Arkansas honor roll, and she's a three-time SEC academic first-team selection. She's also competed in a campus-wide moot court competition.
Dailey's work in the community has including assisting elementary students as a Hispanic Literacy Volunteer; working with the Arkansas Athletes Outreach, a character-building program for schoolchildren; and participating in an initiative with local libraries called "Let's read with the Lady 'Backs." Dailey also has assisted the St. Thomas Aquinas parish with youth activities and served underprivileged children in the Razorbacks for Christmas program.
Jayne Even
North Dakota State University
Basketball
Jayne Even was honored as the Division II Women's Basketball Player of the Year and the winner of the Division II Honda Broderick Cup, signifying her as Division II's top female student-athlete. Even was the North Central Conference's scoring leader and player of the year and helped North Dakota State to a national runner-up finish in 2000.
The mass communications major was named to the GTE/CoSIDA College Division Academic all-American second team for 2000, and she also earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
Even was the student-athlete spokesperson for the United Blood Services and also volunteered as a Bison Buddies coach, a Big Sister and helped with sandbagging efforts during the 1997 flood. Even was a reading mentor in the Fargo schools and organized a bike race for the St. Paul's Newman Center.
Alia Fischer
Washington University (Missouri)
Basketball
The three-time Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division III Player of the Year, Alia Fischer helped Washington (Missouri) to three-consecutive national titles and a 68-game winning streak. The Honda Broderick Award, given to the division's top female student-athlete, and the Lucy Lopata Award, given to the top female athlete at Washington (Missouri), are just a few of the honors bestowed to the school's all-time leader in scoring, rebounds, blocked shots and field-goal percentage.
Fischer graduated with majors in French and marketing, earning an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. She was honored as the GTE/CoSIDA Academic all-American of the Year for 2000 and was named to the all-American team three other times during her career.
Besides volunteering for Mentor St. Louis and a community clean-up program called "Into the Streets," Fischer was a member of the school's Thurtene Honorary. The group is comprised of the top 13 juniors at the university - based on leadership, character and community service - and the group organizes the largest and oldest student-run carnival in the country.
Emily Haley
University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Track and field/Cross country
A team captain in track and cross country, Emily Haley helped lead the Tommies to first place in the 4x100 relay in 1997. Haley, who has run on four conference championship relay teams, is a 14-time all-conference top-three finisher and also participated on the 1997 cross country NCAA second-place team, as well as the 4x400 relay at the NCAA championships in 1998.
Haley, who has nearly perfect marks, graduated summa cum laude with a degree in history and also is a pre-medicine major. Haley is a national dean's list honoree, an all-American Scholar and a 2000 GTE/CoSIDA spring at-large academic all-district selection.
Haley traveled throughout the world several summers as part of a youth mission with Royal Servants International, including a stint in a Chinese orphanage. She also has volunteered with autistic children, collected books for the Books for Africa project, and even performed at charity fundraisers as a unicycling clown. She's served as a youth leader on a mission to Mexico, and is active with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
Anna Hallbergson
Barry University
Tennis
An all-American doubles player in 1998 and an all-conference pick in 1999, this team captain also found success in singles, where she was all-conference both years. A leader on and off the court, Anna Hallbergson was selected as Barry's Most Outstanding Senior in women's tennis this year, when she led Barry to a berth in the NCAA national tournament.
A summa cum laude graduate in biology and pre-medicine, Hallbergson earned perfect marks throughout her collegiate career. Hallbergson is the female recipient of the NCAA Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship, the Association's highest academic honor, and she has been chosen both the Scholar Athlete of the Year and the Outstanding Biology Major at Barry for the last two years in a row. A three-time winner of the National Collegiate Natural Sciences Award and a two-time member of the GTE/CoSIDA Academic all-America team, Hallbergson also is a published researcher.
Hallbergson dedicates four hours per week to the Big Brothers/Big Sisters mentor program, and she also is a volunteer tutor and a biology mentor on campus. A Barry University Ambassador, Hallbergson also has volunteered for Habitat for Humanity and the Jackson Memorial Hospital adopt-a-floor program.
Kristy Kowal
University of Georgia
Swimming
The winner of eight individual NCAA championships in swimming, Kristy Kowal is the holder of one world record and eight American records. A member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic team and a multiple-event all-American, Kowal led the Bulldogs to NCAA team championships in 1999 and 2000. Kowal has been the Southeastern Conference champion 13 times, and last season she became the first woman in conference history to win the 100 and 200 breast stroke for four consecutive years.
Kowal, who majored in early childhood education, would like to become a teacher. She has been a Georgia Presidential Scholar and named to the dean's list numerous times. Last year she was selected as a Ramsey Scholar, an award bestowed on the top-10 student-athletes at Georgia. Kowal is a GTE/CoSIDA Academic all-American second-team selection, and she was picked for the College Swim Coaches Association all-academic team in 1998, 1999 and 2000.
Kowal has received the "Peach of an Athlete" award from the Atlanta Boy Scouts for her community service efforts. She's served as a volunteer with the Safe Kids project - helping ensure children are safe in their car seats - and as a speaker at the 1999 Youth Education through Sports clinic. Kowal has served food at homeless shelters, collected food and clothing for needy families and spoken to elementary children about the importance of academics.
Gabrielle Rose
Stanford University
Swimming
A 22-time all-American, Gabrielle Rose is a three-time NCAA champion and team co-captain who has helped lead the Stanford Cardinal to a 1998 team championship, second place in 1997 and 1999, and third place in 2000. Rose - whose mother is from Brazil and whose father is from the United States- swam for Brazil in the 1996 Olympics, but she is on the U.S. Olympic team for the Sydney Games.
Rose graduated from Stanford this June with a degree in American Studies, and she is a first-team academic selection in the Pacific-10 Conference. She also was nominated for an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
Rose has served as a volunteer swim instructor for children, and she's also helped organize the Youth Olympics, an annual event at Stanford. She represented women's swimming on the Cardinal Council, a Stanford forum that discusses student-athlete concerns, and she also has spoken to children at middle schools, high schools and Stanford Swimming Camps about the value of academics and athletics.
Phylesha Whaley
University of Oklahoma
Basketball
Phylesha Whaley, the 2000 Big Twelve Conference Player of the Year, earned a number of athletics accolades in 2000 while helping Oklahoma to the conference championship and an NCAA tournament Sweet 16 finish. The team captain and four-time team most-valuable player is Oklahoma's all-time leading scorer and an all-American.
A sociology major, she graduated in May and has been honored twice as an all-Big 12 academic team member. Whaley also has been selected four times as a Sooner Scholar and as a member of the Commissioner's Honor Roll.
Whaley has volunteered for Meals on Wheels, Sooner Big Sis, City Sights Tour, Special Olympics and the Children's Miracle Network. For many of those projects, she served as team leader. Whaley also was a member of the Oklahoma Student-Athlete Advisory Board, and she was selected as an OU Athletic Leader, the athletics director's leadership award.