Led by the all-time leading scorer in UNC women’s lacrosse history–senior Katie Hoeg–a total of four Tar Heel student-athletes were named recipients of Chancellor’s Awards on Thursday, a list that also includes track and field athletes Nicole Greene and Ashley Smith and fencer Ezra Wright.

Hoeg was named the winner of the Jim Tatum Memorial Award, an honor that goes each year to one outstanding UNC student-athlete “who has performed with distinction in his or her sport and who has contributed to the University community through constructive participation in co-curricular activities.”

Greene earned the Patrick F. Earey Award for her work in the department of Exercise and Sport Science. This award is given to a member of the graduating class who has exhibited outstanding academic achievement, extracurricular involvement, and leadership. The recipient is selected by a committee of faculty members and students from the department.

Smith took home the Irene F. Lee Award, which is presented annually to the woman of the senior class who is judged most outstanding in leadership, character and scholarship.

Wright, meanwhile, was given the Sterling A. Stoudemire Award for Excellence in Spanish. This certificate and monetary prize are awarded annually to a senior who has excelled in Spanish. In addition, Wright also earned the Mary Turner Lane Award in Women’s and Gender Studies, which honors a senior, from any discipline, judged by the faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies to have made an outstanding contribution through original scholarship and/or creative production on gender and feminist issues.

 

 

 

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