University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Spotlight
April 3, 2018 | Women's Basketball, Women's Golf, Student-Athlete Development
Taylor Koenen and Bryana Nguyen are the latest Carolina Spotlight student-athletes, recognizing their involvement in and leadership of student-athlete governance at UNC and beyond.
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Koenan, a sophomore on the Tar Heel women's basketball team, recently was selected to serve on the Atlantic Coast Conference Autonomy Committee. She is one of three ACC student-athletes on the committee and also will be part of the voting delegation at the 2018 NCAA Convention. For more on that honor, click here.
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A guard from Savage, Minn., she is majoring in business administration and represents her team as a member of UNC's Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) as well as serving on the ACC SAAC.
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Nguyen, a senior on the women's golf team, is co-president of UNC's SAAC, the student-athlete governing body that collaborates with athletics and university administrators on behalf of Carolina's nearly 800 student-athletes. In this role and as a member of the ACC SAAC, she focuses on improving the student-athlete experience for all Tar Heels. She also is part of the planning committee for the annual Rammy Awards, coming up later this month.
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In addition to those leadership roles, she is very active in community outreach and was honored with a 2016-17 ACC Top Six for Service Award, recognizing outstanding participation in service activities.
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Nguyen is from Columbia, Md., and is majoring in broadcast journalism with a minor in Spanish for the professions.
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Koenan, a sophomore on the Tar Heel women's basketball team, recently was selected to serve on the Atlantic Coast Conference Autonomy Committee. She is one of three ACC student-athletes on the committee and also will be part of the voting delegation at the 2018 NCAA Convention. For more on that honor, click here.
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A guard from Savage, Minn., she is majoring in business administration and represents her team as a member of UNC's Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC) as well as serving on the ACC SAAC.
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Nguyen, a senior on the women's golf team, is co-president of UNC's SAAC, the student-athlete governing body that collaborates with athletics and university administrators on behalf of Carolina's nearly 800 student-athletes. In this role and as a member of the ACC SAAC, she focuses on improving the student-athlete experience for all Tar Heels. She also is part of the planning committee for the annual Rammy Awards, coming up later this month.
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In addition to those leadership roles, she is very active in community outreach and was honored with a 2016-17 ACC Top Six for Service Award, recognizing outstanding participation in service activities.
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Nguyen is from Columbia, Md., and is majoring in broadcast journalism with a minor in Spanish for the professions.
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