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2001 NCAA Woman of the Year |
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Kimberly A. Black, a swimmer from the University of Georgia, is the 2001 NCAA Woman of the Year. Black received the award on October 21st at the 11th annual NCAA Woman of the Year Awards Dinner at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis. The award honors academic and athletics excellence, as well as community service and leadership.
The 2001 NCAA Woman of the Year is presented by Rawlings.
Black was chosen from more than 350 nominations. A selection committee comprised of representatives from member schools chose the 51 state winners, including a winner from the District of Columbia, and then narrowed the field to 10 national finalists. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics selected Black from among the 10 finalists.
Black was a member of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay team that won a gold medal in the 2000 Olympic Games, and she competed in the World University Games this summer in Beijing, where she was a member of the 800-meter freestyle relay team that also won a gold medal.
In 2001, Black helped the Lady Bulldogs to their third-straight NCAA championship and fifth consecutive Southeastern Conference (SEC) title. She is a four-time NCAA all-American honoree.
Black was the female winner of the NCAA's Walter Byers Scholarship, which is the highest academic honor awarded by the Association.
In addition, she was awarded the University of Georgia's Joy Williams Science Award for top female honor students on campus in the sciences and also earned Verizon Academic all-American of the Year (at-large team) honors and the SEC Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete of the Year for 2001. She graduated in May 2001 with a 3.95 grade-point average in biology. She plans to attend medical school, perhaps after a stint in the Peace Corps. She was a state finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship.
The native of Syracuse, New York, she was the inaugural winner of the Georgia Athletic Association Community Service Award given to a student-athlete who dedicates time to volunteer work, as well as the recipient of the Peach-of-an-Athlete Award. She has volunteered at Athens Regional Medical Center and Egleston's Children's Hospital for various Safe Kids programs, conducted car-seat installation inspections and spoke at schools about her Olympic experience.
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