University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Alum Storrar Honored By U.S. Field Hockey
January 17, 2002 | Field Hockey
Jan. 17, 2002
North Carolina graduate Peggy Storrar has been named the U.S. Field Hockey Association's female Athlete of the Year and the 2001 Women's National Team, which includes six current or former Tar Heels, has been honored as the organization's Team of the Year. Storrar also won the organization's top honor in 1998.
The awards were announced Thursday by the U.S. Field Hockey Association. Honorees are now candidates for the U.S. Olympic Committee's yearly awards, which will be announced on Jan. 23.
Storrar, who played for the Tar Heels from 1990-93, is the starting goalkeeper for the National Team and helped the U.S. to a silver medal at the inaugural Americas Cup in March of 2001. During the year, she claimed or shared six shutouts in international play, including four in seven games at the Americas Cup in Jamaica. She started all but one of the team's 17 international matches in 2001.
Storrar also helped her squad to its honor as Team of the Year. She is joined on the U.S. roster by fellow Tar Heel alums Kate Barber and Kristen McCann, as well Carrie Lingo, Abby Martin and Amy Tran, all members of the 2001 UNC team. (Martin finished her eligibility with the 2001 season, while Lingo and Tran--Storrar's backup in goal--are still on the Tar Heel roster.) In addition to the silver medal at the Americas Cup in Jamaica in March, the U.S. team placed sixth at the Korea Telecom Cup in Seoul in July and competed in a four-game series against South Africa in October. The series, which celebrated 100 years of field hockey in the U.S., was played in cities on the East Coast. The team was unable to compete in the World Cup Qualifying Tournament in France following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
After missing out on a spot in the 2000 Olympic Games, the U.S. National Team entered a full-time residency program in Virginia Beach, Va. Barber, McCann and Storrar are members of that program.
The U.S. team currently is preparing for the Champions Challenge Feb. 9-17 in South Africa.
