University of California, Los Angeles, Athletics
NCAA honors 2008 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award Recipients At Convention
November 19, 2007 | Bruin Athletics
The award recognizes former student-athletes who completed successful collegiate careers in various sports and have excelled in their chosen professions. The Silver Anniversary Award acknowledges the former student-athletes on their 25th anniversary of completing their athletics eligibility.
Recipients were chosen by the NCAA Honors Committee, which is composed of athletics administrators and nationally distinguished citizens who also were former student-athletes.
The 2008 NCAA Silver Anniversary Award honorees are: Theresa Andrews (University of Florida, swimming); Todd Blackledge (Pennsylvania State University, football); Cormac Carney (University of California, Los Angeles, football); Anne Donovan (Old Dominion University, basketball); Dot Richardson (University of California, Los Angeles, softball and basketball); Robin Roberts (Southeastern Louisiana University, basketball); and Bob Woodruff (Colgate University, lacrosse).
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Following are biographical sketches of the 2008 award winners from UCLA:
The Honorable Cormac Carney
University of California, Los Angeles
Football
Psychology
U.S. District Judge
A three-year starting wide receiver and a two-time first team all-Pacific-10 Conference selection in 1981 and 1982, Carney finished his career as the Bruins all-time leading receiver and remains tied for No. 11 with 108 receptions for 1,909 yards and eight touchdowns. A transfer from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1980, Carney led the Bruins in receiving in each of his three seasons at UCLA and helped the program compile a record of 26-7-2.
A 1982 NCAA Today's Top V selection, two-time first team academic all-American and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winner, Carney graduated from Harvard Law School in 1987.
Carney was nominated to the federal bench by President George W. Bush in January of 2003 and confirmed by the Senate in April of the same year. As a federal judge, he handles complex civil and criminal matters including patents, copyrights, trademarks, securities, business finance, civil rights, drug conspiracies and white collar crimes. Prior to his most recent appointment, Carney was a California Superior Court judge appointed by Governor Gray Davis in 2001. He also practiced business litigation with the firm of O'Melveny & Myers from 1991 to 2001. Currently director of the board of directors for the UCLA Alumni Association, Carney also is highly involved with the Federal Bar Association, Orange County Bar Association and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
Dot Richardson M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Softball and basketball
Kinesiology and Pre-Medicine
Director and Medical Director, National Training Center
Richardson, a three-time all-American shortstop at UCLA, named co-UCLA Athlete of the Year (with Jackie Joyner Kersee), helped the Bruins win the 1982 NCAA national championship and was twice selected to the all-Women's College World Series team. The NCAA Player of the Decade (1980s), she batted .367 for her career.
As a member of the U.S. National Women's Softball Team, Richardson is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (1996, 2000) and five-time Pam American Games gold medalist (1979, 1983, 1987, 1995, 1999) and five-time World Champion (1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998). A four-time selection as USA Softball's Most Valuable Player, Richardson was named as the United States Olympic Committee's Athlete of the Year and the Amateur Athletic Foundation Awards Southern California Athlete of the Year in 1996. She was four-time Sullivan Award nominee for outstanding amateur athlete in the United States and has earned numerous awards for community leadership. Additionally, Richardson was selected to the NCAA's 100 Most Influential Student-Athletes (#43), ASA Hall of Fame (2007), State of Florida Hall of Fame (1999), and the UCLA Hall of Fame (1996).
Richardson is currently the medical director of the USA Triathlon National Training Center. She also is vice chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, an advisory group to the president and Secretary of Health and Human Services that focuses on ways to encourage Americans to be physically active, participate in sports and raise awareness of the dangers of obesity. Richardson also has produced a library of softball instructional videotapes and has designed and implemented softball camps and clinics in more than 50 cities nationwide and is the co-founder and commissioner of the ProFastpitch X-treme Tour, a venue that brings amateur and professional fastpitch softball athletes together to meet and compete throughout the country.
