Meredith Florance Wins Honda Soccer Award
December 20, 2000 | Women's Soccer
Dec. 20, 2000
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Meredith Florance, the leading scorer on the University of North Carolina's 2000 NCAA champion women's soccer team was honored Wednesday as the winner of the 2000-2001 Honda Sports Award for soccer. This is the second consecutive year that a UNC player has won the award. Tar Heel defender Lorrie Fair won the award after Carolina's 1999 NCAA championship campaign.
Florance's win automatically qualifies her for the Honda-Broderick Cup to be presented to the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year at the Honda Awards Program banquet to be held June 11, 2001 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Florance joins two other Honda Award winners which have already been chosen for fall sports. They are Marina DiGiacomo of Old Dominion University for field hockey and Kara Grgas-Wheeler of the University of Colorado for cross country.
Florance was chosen from among five finalists for the Honda Soccer Award in a national vote of senior women's administrators at NCAA Division I institutions.
Florance led the tar Heels to the 2000 NCAA Championship during the Tar Heels' recently completed 21-3 season. She led the Tar Heels and the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring with 26 goals and eight assists this season for 60 points. Florance was named the Most Valuable Player this year in four different tournaments including the ACC Tournament and the NCAA Tournament.
