There was one thing Blair Brown said that resonated with Penn State women’s volleyball coach Russ Rose.
While speaking to a crowd at the award ceremony for the Honda Broderick Cup on Monday, the award given to the female collegiate athlete of the year, Brown told the audience she didn’t feel right accepting an award that she didn’t earn on her own.
UConn Grad and Current Minnesota Lynx Forward Named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year; Only Second Athlete in Program’s 35-Year History to Win Top Award Twice
The Collegiate Women Sports Awards today announced that Maya Moore, University of Connecticut basketball star and current forward for the WNBA Minnesota Lynx, has won the Honda-Broderick Cup, designating her as the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. Moore’s history-making win is only the second time in all 35 years of the program that an athlete has won the Honda-Broderick Cup twice (swimmer Tracy Caulkins,1982 and ’84), and she is the first-ever back-to-back winner. The announcement was made in the Low Library Rotunda at Columbia University in New York City.
