Women's Cross Country Wins Leaders and Best Award
9/21/2004 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan women's cross country team was honored for the second straight season with the 2003-04 Leaders and Best Award, awarded to the U-M team with the highest grade point average.
In its fifth year, the award is given annually by former football letterman Larry Johnson. The women's cross country program will receive a trophy, created by U-M student Christina Ziegler, and a monetary award of $20,000, donated by Johnson.
The Wolverines captured the Big Ten championship for the second straight season led by Big Ten individual champion Rebecca Walter (Beverly Hills, Mich./Groves HS). The Wolverines finished fourth overall at the NCAA Championships with All-America performances by Jessie Allen-Young and Walter.
The Leaders and Best Award was created by Johnson, who earned two varsity letters as a defensive lineman with the U-M football team in the mid-1970s. In 1974, he was awarded the Arthur D. Robinson Award as the outstanding athlete-scholar on the football team. The next year, he earned the Fielding H. Yost Honor Award for Football. Johnson graduated in 1975 with a BSE in environmental engineering.
Previous winners of the Leaders and Best Award include women's gymnastics in 1999-2000 and 2000-01, women's tennis in 2001-02 and women's cross country in 2002-03.
Contact: Richard Retyi (734) 763-4423
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