Honors Award Recipients
National Administrator of the Year Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees
Nell Jackson Award Recipients
Legacy Award Recipients
Enhanced Opportunities Awards Recipients

HONORS AWARD RECIPIENTS

2007 Nancy Hogshead-Makar Professor, Florida Coastal School of Law	2006 Tora and Irv Grossman Founders The Collegiate Women's Sports Award	2005 Christine Brennan USA Today Columnist	2004 Althea Gibson Tennis Great/USTA (posthumously)	2003 Barbara Jordan, Congresswoman (posthumously)
2002 Billie Jean King	2001 NACWAA Foundation Fund Donors	2000 Robin Roberts, ESPN/ABC Sports	1999 National Association for Girls & Women in Sport (NAGWS)	1998 Donna Lopiano, Women's Sports Foundation
1997 Birch Bayh, Bayh, Connaughton & Stewart, P.C.	1996 Norma Cantu, Office for Civil Rights	1995 State Farm Insurance Companies	1994 Sara Lee Corporation	1993 National Women's Law Center, represented by Marcia Greenberger
1992 The Dial Corporation	1991 Anita L. DeFrantz

1990 - Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter
1989 - Founding Board members of the CCWAA
1988 - Rollin Haffer and Sue Durrant
1987 - Members of the House of Representatives who signed
Civil Rights Restoration Act, represented by Pat Schroeder
1986 - USA Today
1985 - Eastman Kodak
1984 - Broderick Company

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NATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR HONOREES

2007
NCAA Div. I-A Kate Hickey Sr. Associate Athletics Director, Rutgers University	NCAA Div. I-AA Pat Henry Sr. Associate Athletics Director, Harvard University	NCAA Div. I-AAA Janet Cone Director of Athletics University of North Carolina, Asheville	NCAA Div. II Lois Webb Director of Athletics, Florida Southern College
NCAA Div. III Dr. Valerie Cushman Director of Athletics & PE, Randolph College	NAIA/NJCAA/CC Diane Schumacher Director of Athletics, Howard Community College	Conference/Org. Candice Poiss Murray Commissioner, North Eastern Athletic Conference
2006
NCAA Div 1-A Anne Sandy" Barbour University of California-Berkeley	NCAA Div 1-AA Darlene Bailey, Ph.D Missouri State University	NCAA Div 1-AAA Mary McElroy Georgia State University	NCAA Div II Dianthia Ford-Kee Shaw University
NCAA Div III Glada Munt, Ph.D Southwestern University	NAIA/NJCAA/CC Lynne Levesque Brookhaven College	Conference Debbie Corum Southeastern Conference
2005
NCAA Div IA Joan Cronan University of Tennessee	NCAA Div IAA Lauren Anderson University of Rhode Island	NCAA Div IAAA Lynn Hickey University of Texas at San Antonio	NCAA Div II Dr. Suzanne "Sue" Willey University of Indianapolis
NCAA Div III Dr. Cathie Schweitzer Springfield College	NAIA/NJCAA/CC Chris Haines South Mountain Community College	Conference/Organizations Carolyn Campbell-McGovern The Ivy Group

2004

NCAA Div IA Chris Plonsky University of Texas, Austin	NCAA Div IAA Sondra Norrell-Thomas Howard University	NCAA Div IAAA Peggy Bradley-Doppes University of North Carolina, Wilmington	NCAA Div II Jane Meier University of Northern Kentucky
NCAA Div III Dr. Connee Zotos Drew University	NAIA/JR/CC Ann Wellham Garrett College	Organization/Conference Athena Yiamouyiannis NAGWS

2003

NCAA Div IA Cary Groth Northern Illinois University	NCAA Div IAA Nance Reed Towson University	NCAA Div IAAA Jean Lenti Ponsetto DePaul University	NCAA Div II Mary Gardner Bloomsburg University
Joy Solomen Rowan University	NAIA/JR/CC Susan Hlavace Notre Dame of Ohio	Organization/Conference Bridget Belgiovine NCAA

2002

NCAA Div IA Andi Seger Ball State	NCAA Div IAA Andi Myers Indiana State University	NCAA Div IAAA Roxanne Levenson Pepperdine University	NCAA Div II Lynn Dorn North Dakota State University
NCAA Div III Laurie Priest Mount Holyoke College	NAIA/JR/CC Karen Sykes Dean College	Organization/Conference Carolyn Schlie Femovich Patriot League

2001

NCAA Div IA J. Elaine Hieber Iowa State University	NCAA Div IAA Marilyn McNeil Monmouth University	NCAA Div IAAA M. Dianne Murphy University of Denver	NCAA Div II Pam Gill-Fisher University of California-Davis
NCAA Div III Suzanne Coffey Bates College	NAIA/JR/CC Norma Dycus Sinclair Community College	Organization/Conference Carol Iwaoka Big Ten Conference

2000

NCAA Div IA Cheryl Levick Stanford University	NCAA Div IAA JoAnn Harper Dartmouth College	NCAA Div IAAA Diane T. Wendt University of Denver	NCAA Div II Gwendolyn Davis-Reeves Fort Valley State University
NCAA Div III Marilyn Moore SUNY Geneseo	NAIA/JR/CC Lea Plarski St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley	Organization/Conference Patricia Wall Southeastern Conference 1999

1999

District 7 Janet Justus NCAA

District 1 Rita Castagna, Assumption College
District 2 Connee Zotos, Drew University
District 3 Deborah Yow, University of Maryland
District 4 Barbara Hedges, University of Washington
District 5 Alfreeda Goff, Midwestern Collegiate Conference
District 6 Kathy Lindahl, Michigan State University

1998

District 2 Sharon E. Taylor Lock Haven University

District 1 Arlene E. Gorton, Brown University
District 3 Donna Ledwin, College of New Rochelle
District 4 Karen Miller, Cal Poly Pomona
District 5 Jean Lenti Ponsetto, DePaul University
District 6 Barbara Schroeder, Regis University
District 7 Tricia Bork, NCAA

1997

District 4 Marcia Saneholtz Washington State University

District 1 Debbie Chin, University of New Haven
District 2 Sue Regan, Seton Hall University
District 3 Kitty Roger Baird, Centre College
District 5 Lynn Imergoot, Washington University (Mo.)
District 6 Phyllis Ocker, University of Michigan
District 7 Barbara Hibner, University of Nebraska

1996

District 5 Patty Viverito Gateway Football Conference, Missouri Valley Conference

District 1 Linda S. Moulton, Clark University
District 2 Marilyn A. McNeil, Monmouth College
District 3 Mary Jo Warner, The George Washington University
District 4 Fern Gardner, University of Utah
District 6 Margie H. McDonald, Western Athletic Conference
District 7 Jeannine McHaney, Texas Tech. University (posthumously)

1995

District 1 Jane Betts NACWAA Executive Director

District 2 Cindy Mazda, Atlantic 10 Conference
District 3 Donna Ledwin, College of Notre Dame
District 4 Barbara Schroeder, Regis University
District 5 Nancy Bandy, Southern Illinois University
District 6 Georgene Brock, Minnesota State University, Mankato
District 7 Barbara Hibner, University of Nebraska

1994

District 1 Louise O'Neal Wellesley College

District 2 Ellen Perry, Pen State University
District 3 Carol Fritz, Western Maryland College
District 4 Pam Gill-Fisher, University of California-Davis
District 5 Marcy Weston, Central Michigan University
District 6 Chris Voelz, University of Minnesota
District 7 Kit Green, University of Washington

1993

District 6 Christine H.B. Grant University of Iowa

District 1 E. Louise Albrecht, Southern Connecticut State University
District 2 Jenepher Shillingford, Bryn Mawr College
District 3 Nora Lynn Finch, North Carolina State University
District 4 Virginia Hunt, Montana State University
District 5 R. Elaine Dreidame, University of Dayton
District 7 Mary Jo Wynn, Southwest Missouri State University

1992

District 4 Judy Sweet University of California, San Diego

District 1 Eleanor Lemaire, University of Rhode Island
District 2 Eve Atkinson, Lafayette College
District 3 Martha Mullins, Eastern Kentucky University
District 5 Karol Kahrs, University of Illinois
District 6 Phyllis Bailey, Ohio State University
District 7 Donna Lopiano, University of Texas

1991

District 5 Charlotte West Southern Illinois University

District 1 Jeanne Rowlands, Northeastern University
District 2 N/A
District 3 Janice Shelton, East Tennessee State University
District 4 Judith Sweet, University of California - San Diego
District 6 Judith Kruckman, WWIAC
District 7 Donna Lopiano, University of Texas, Austin


 
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2004 CCWAA Founders Celebrated as part of the 25th Anniversary

Phyllis Bailey Ohio State University	Dr. G. Jean Cerra Barry University	Dr. June B. Davis University of Nebraska	Kay Don Long Beach State University; Cal State Dominguez Hills; Stony Brook University
Della Durrant Pennsylvania State University	Linda Estes University of New Mexico	Susanna Garrison (deceased) University of Houston	Barbara Hedges University of Southern California; University of Washington
Mary Alice Hill San Diego State University	Dr. Judith Holland University of California, Los Angeles	Dr. Mary Roby University of Arizona	Dr. Pamela Strathairn (deceased) Stanford University

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HONOREES

2007
Joanna Davenport (posthumously) Women's Athletics Director & Professor, Auburn University	Dr. Carla Lowry Director of Athletics, Southwestern University	Barbara Jo Palmer Women's Athletics Director, Florida State University	Dr. Phebe Scott Chair of Department of Physical Education & Professor/Founding Commissioner of Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, Illinois State University
Sandra Shuler Athletics/Interim Director of Athletics North Carolina Central University
2006
Jane Betts Senior Associate Athletics Director Massachusetts Insitute of Technology	Mary Jean Mulvaney Director of Athletics University of Chicago	Joan Parker Executive Director, Bear Backers Former Associate Athletics Director UC-Berkeley	Dr. Katherine "Kit" Saunders-Nordeen Director of Women's Athletics University of Wisconsin
Jeannine McHaney Director of Women's Athletics Texas Tech University
2005