Texas Women's Athletic Awards Banquet

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www.texassports.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=68&url_article_id=6559&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2

05/01/2007

AUSTIN, Texas -- The 33rd annual University of Texas Women’s Athletics Annual Awards Banquet took place on Tuesday evening, May 1 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. Featuring 14 “Awards of the Highest Honor” and over 90 endowed scholarships which were awarded, the awards banquet also recognized the Most Valuable Players and the Academic MVPs from all Longhorns women’s teams....

....The Jill Sterkel Leadership Award, given to the student-athlete whose exceptional athletic accomplishments have brought attention to The University, went to junior All-America volleyball setter Michelle Moriarty. Moriarty (Houston, Texas/Stratford HS) led UT to the NCAA regional finals (final eight) this past year as she became the Longhorns’ career assists leader with 4,358 assists. Moriarty carries a 3.74 GPA as a kinesiology/sport management major.....

.....In addition to the Neuhaus Endowed Presidential Scholarship, there are six other endowed scholarships which are considered among the “Awards of Highest Honor.” They are as follows, with the 2006-07 recipient listed:

Darrell K Royal Endowed Centennial Presidential Scholarship, awarded to sophomore Destinee Hooker (San Antontio, Texas/Southwest HS, education major) who is an All-American in volleyball and an NCAA champion and All-America high jump standout as well at UT; and the two Darrell K Royal Endowed Presidential Scholarships went to sophomore soccer All-Big 12 and USA National Team member Stephanie Logterman (Austin, Texas/Westwood HS) and to junior diver Jessica Livingston (Houston, Texas), an advertising major who was the Big 12 Diver of the Year en route to winning the 2007 NCAA platform title.....((Hooker seems to be in great company)


2006-07 University of Texas Women’s Athletics Team MVPs....

Indoor Track & Field: Destinee Hooker, Sophomore (San Antonio, Texas/Southwest HS)

Volleyball: Jenny Andrew, Senior (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood HS) and Alyson Jennings, Junior (Costa Mesa, Calif./Newport Harbor HS), who repeats as a team MVP for the second year


2006-07 Team Academic MVPs.....

Volleyball: Michelle Moriarty (Junior, Houston, Texas/Stratford HS) -- kinesiology/sport management major


www.texassports.com/photoviewer/index.php?url_channel_id=0#id=050107

image 7 is Destinee Hooker and image 11 is Michelle Moriarty.

[VolleyTX]

Volleyball: Jenny Andrew, Senior (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood HS) and Alyson Jennings, Junior (Costa Mesa, Calif./Newport Harbor HS), who repeats as a team MVP for the second year

Ok... this ticks me off..... How can a player that almost NEVER sees any playing time (Jenny Andrew) be the team MVP? Just because she is a senior? Stupid.

I hate when teams give out "token" awards like that. If it were me, it would just make me feel stupid. Like I was given an award out of pity.

I'm not dissing Andrew.... I REALLY like her play... even if it doesn't fit in well with Texas.

[cbrown1709]

Is Destinee already a sophomore?

[cmmhc4]

cbrown1709 said:

Is Destinee already a sophomore?

She is a sophomore academically... She went to Texas last Spring.

[Gelatinous Mass]

In this case I think the MVP award is for more than on-court performance. Jenny was a team leader and was blessed with an excess of enthusiasm, heart and dedication. As several people have pointed out on this board, she could have easily felt like she got a raw deal and withdrawn from any type of role on the team. Instead she put more effort into the ways she could help the team and was a positive influence in the locker room, especially on a team that counted so heavily on freshman this year. If that's not truly an MVP..... it's close enough.

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volleytx said:

Volleyball: Jenny Andrew, Senior (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood HS) and Alyson Jennings, Junior (Costa Mesa, Calif./Newport Harbor HS), who repeats as a team MVP for the second year

Ok... this ticks me off..... How can a player that almost NEVER sees any playing time (Jenny Andrew) be the team MVP? Just because she is a senior? Stupid.

I hate when teams give out "token" awards like that. If it were me, it would just make me feel stupid. Like I was given an award out of pity.

I'm not dissing Andrew.... I REALLY like her play... even if it doesn't fit in well with Texas.

I think the article was referring to Jennings as the MVP, not Andrews. The article did not say co-MVP and the MVP award was mentioned after Jennings' name. If it were Andrews who won the MVP award, it would have read "Jenny Andrew, Senior (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood HS), who repeats as a team MVP for the second year, and Alyson Jennings, Junior (Costa Mesa, Calif./Newport Harbor HS)."

[UTFan]

Jenny Andrew IS the co-MVP with Alyson Jennings.

They went on stage together and received the trophies and it is Jennings who repeats as MVP not Andrews.