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Kathleen Sharkey Nominated for 2010 Honda Award
November 30, 2010 | Field Hockey
Sharkey was the 2010 Ivy League Player of the Year, a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection, and a first-team All-America as she helped the Tigers to a 14-5 season and a berth in the NCAA quarterfinals. Sharkey's first-team All-Ivy nod was her third in three seasons and her first-team All-America honor was her second in a row.
Sharkey led the nation in goals scored with 33. That number also set a Princeton single-season record. She finished the season with 33 goals and eight assists for 74 points, also setting a Princeton record. Sharkey now 69 goals and 22 assists for 160 points in three seasons wearing the Orange and Black.
She becomes Princeton's eighth Honda Award nominee, joining Martha Russo (1982), Liz Fagan (1994), Amy MacFarlane (1997), Kirsty Hale (1998), Ilvy Friebe (2001 and 2002) and teammate Katie Reinprecht (2009).
Now in its 35th year, the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program recognizes annually the top woman collegiate athlete in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, each of whom receives the Honda Sports Award. In addition, the program honors the top women collegiate athletes representing Division II and Division III schools each year, as well as the recipient of the Honda Inspiration Award. Throughout the years, the program has also often chosen to honor individuals and groups with its special Irv Grossman Award of Merit.
In addition, each year a single athlete from the group of 12 Honda Sports Award winners is chosen as the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and is presented with the Honda-Broderick Cup.
To determine the Honda Sports Award winners in each of the 12 sports, ballots are distributed during the year to senior women's sports administrators at all NCAA-member schools. Nominees on the ballots are selected by All-American committees or placement in NCAA championships. Balloting is conducted separately for Division II and Division III Athletes of the Year while the ballot for The Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year completes the balloting. Winners of the Inspiration Award and the Irv Grossman Award of Merit are chosen by the Board of Directors of the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards program.
American Honda Motor Co., Inc., sponsor of the program celebrates each nominee by donating $5,000 to each Honda Sports Award recipient school and $1,000 to each nominee school.
A press conference announcing the winner of the 2010-11 Honda-Broderick Cup will be held at the Low Library, Columbia University, New York City June 21, 2010. The Cup will be presented to The Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. The Divisions II and III Athletes of the Year, as well as the recipients of the Inspiration Award and the Irv Grossman Award of Merit, will also be honored and will receive their awards at the press conference.
Click here to learn more about the Honda Award.