University of Georgia Athletics
October 21, 2001 | Swimming & Diving
Oct. 21, 2001
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.--Kim Black, a former Georgia swimmer and gold medalist at the 2000 Olympic Games, has been named the 2001 NCAA Woman of the Year Award as announced by the NCAA on Sunday night at an awards dinner at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis. The award honors outstanding female students-athletes who have excelled in academics, athletics and community leadership and was presented by Rawlings.
This is the 11th year the NCAA has named a Woman of the Year, and Black marks the third Lady Bulldog swimmer to receive such distinction. Georgia is the only school to have more than one winner, and all three Lady Bulldog honorees have been a product of the swimming and diving program under head coach Jack Bauerle, all three coming in the last five years. Georgia became the first institution to have multiple award winners when former Lady Bulldog and 2000 Olympic silver medalist Kristy Kowal captured the NCAA Woman of the Year honor in 2000. Kowal became the second Lady Bulldog to earn the recognition after the late Lisa Ann Coole was honored as the NCAA Woman of the Year in 1997.
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