Wake Forest track star named NCAA Woman of the Year
Posted Wednesday, 1 November, 2006
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Anne Bersagel, a former cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field student-athlete at Wake Forest University has been named the 2006 NCAA Woman of the Year.
Bersagel received the award -- one of the most prestigious that the NCAA bestows -- at the 16th annual NCAA Woman of the Year Awards Dinner Saturday night at the Murat Centre Egyptian Room in Indianapolis. The award honors female student-athletes who have completed their eligibility and demonstrated academic and athletics excellence, as well as community service and leadership.
Bersagel, a Greeley, Colorado native, is the first Woman of the Year from Wake Forest University and the sixth cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field student-athlete to be named Woman of the Year.
An economics and political science double-major who graduated with honors in December 2005, Bersagel received an NCAA postgraduate scholarship and was named an NCAA Walter Byers Scholar in 2006. As a Colorado state finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, Bersagel was a four-time Edwin G. Wilson Wake Forest Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Bersagel also received the Weaver-James-Corrigan ACC Postgraduate Scholarship and the ACC Award for Excellence in Academics and Athletics. She was a decorated student at Wake Forest, receiving numerous honors including being named the Most Outstanding Political Science Student and the Judicial Student of the Year in 2005.
In addition to excelling in the classroom, Bersagel was often a winner on the cross country course and the track. A three-time ACC cross country performer of the week recipient, she holds school records in outdoor track in three events -- 3,000 meters, 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters. She was also named the national female athlete of the week by the US Track Coaches Association.
For more information about the NCAA Woman of the Year award and past winners, go to http://www.ncaa.org/awards/woty/.
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