University of North Carolina Athletics
Field Hockey Players Earn Academic All-America Honors
April 26, 2001 | Field Hockey
April 26, 2001
University of North Carolina field hockey players Holly Huff and Jana Toepel have earned Verizon Academic All-America honors in recognition of their outstanding academic and athletic performances. Huff was voted to the second team and Toepel to the third team for the Fall/Winter Women's At-Large University Division squads.
Huff, an English major with a 3.86 grade point average, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and will graduate with highest honors. While at UNC, she has earned spots on the Dean's List and ACC Honor Roll and recently was announced as a recipient of the Atlantic Coast Conference's Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship. She has served as the coordinator of UNC's Carolina ACT peer mentoring program and earned the ACC Top Six in Service Award. In her senior season, she ranked third on the field hockey team in goals with 11 and earned ACC Player of the Week honors.
Toepel has a 3.62 grade point average and is majoring in business with a minor in French. She serves as team representative to the Student-Athlete Advisory Council, has earned spots on the Dean's List and ACC Honor Roll, and recently received the ACC's Weaver-James-Corrigan Scholar Award. Toepel is a three-time All-America and All-ACC selection and has represented the U.S. as a member of the U.S. Field Hockey National Team.
Both players were starters for the Tar Heels in 2000, when the team finished 20-4 as the NCAA runner-up.
The Verizon Academic All-America Fall/Winter Women's At-Large Teams are selected by a vote of the 1,800-member College Sports Information Directors of America. To be eligible, an athlete must be a starter or key reserve and maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale.
Other ACC student-athletes named to the Fall/Winter Women's At-Large squads, which include all sports from those seasons except for basketball and volleyball, were:
First team: Suzy Catterson, Maryland (swimming), Gillian Cote, Maryland (gymnastics), Jenny Everett, Wake Forest (field hockey), Carla Tagliente, Maryland (field hockey)
Third team: Kathleen Tracy, Virginia (soccer)
