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| ESPN’s Sage Steele (left0 congratulated fellow IU alumna Jessica Gall at the NCAA Woman of the Year banquet. |
Director of Experiential Education and Recruitment Jessica Gall was one of nine honored as a contender for the NCAA Woman of the Year award at Saturday’s banquet in Indianapolis. Whitney Myers, a swimmer from the University of Arizona, won the top prize.
Now in its 17th year, the Woman of Year award honors exceptional female student athletes who have excelled in academics, athletics and community leadership, and have completed their collegiate athletics eligibility, according to the NCAA.
Gall, M.A. ’07, is a three-time NCAA All-American who placed ninth in the 2007 NCAA Championships 10,000 meter. She has met the qualifying standard for the 2008 Olympic Trials.
She was the 2005 and 2006 Jack D. Tichenor Award winner after earning the highest cumulative grade point average of any Hoosier female student athlete. She is the winner of a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
ESPN’s Sage Steele, an IU alumna who talked to students Friday at Ernie Pyle Hall, was in Indianapolis to cover the awards. She and ESPN’s Debbie Antonellie hosted the event, which will be broadcast on ESPN2 Dec. 7.
Gall said the top 30 nominees spent the weekend in Indianapolis at a reception, at a Habitat for Humanity site where they helped build a minibarn, and preparing for the banquet.
“It was great to get to meet all of these very accomplished women from all over the country,” Gall said in an e-mail from London, where she is headed to organize a spring course for the school. “Everyone’s story was inspirational and proved that not only can sports play a powerful role in women’s lives, but also that we really can do anything if we put our minds to it.”
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Now in its 17th year, the Woman of Year award honors exceptional female student athletes who have excelled in academics, athletics and community leadership, and have completed their collegiate athletics eligibility, according to the NCAA.
Gall, M.A. ’07, is a three-time NCAA All-American who placed ninth in the 2007 NCAA Championships 10,000 meter. She has met the qualifying standard for the 2008 Olympic Trials.
She was the 2005 and 2006 Jack D. Tichenor Award winner after earning the highest cumulative grade point average of any Hoosier female student athlete. She is the winner of a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
ESPN’s Sage Steele, an IU alumna who talked to students Friday at Ernie Pyle Hall, was in Indianapolis to cover the awards. She and ESPN’s Debbie Antonellie hosted the event, which will be broadcast on ESPN2 Dec. 7.
Gall said the top 30 nominees spent the weekend in Indianapolis at a reception, at a Habitat for Humanity site where they helped build a minibarn, and preparing for the banquet.
“It was great to get to meet all of these very accomplished women from all over the country,” Gall said in an e-mail from London, where she is headed to organize a spring course for the school. “Everyone’s story was inspirational and proved that not only can sports play a powerful role in women’s lives, but also that we really can do anything if we put our minds to it.”
