Silver Anniversary
Awards The Silver Anniversary
Awards recognize six distinguished former student-athletes
on their 25th anniversary as college graduates
1974 -- Eugene T. Rossides
(Columbia '49) Football
1976 -- Samuel H. Greenawalt (Penn) Football &
Squash
1977 -- Richard W. Kazmaier (Princeton) Football
1983 -- Richard J. Censits (Penn) Basketball
1984 -- Stephan Friedman (Cornell) Wrestling
1985 -- Paul J. Choquette Jr. (Brown) Football &
Track
1990 -- Arthur J. Roberts (Columbia) Football,
Basketball & Baseball
1991 -- Tone N. Grant (Yale) Football &
Lacrosse
1993 -- Donald A. Schollander (Yale) Swimming
1994 -- Calvin Hill (Yale) Football
1995 -- Kwaku Ohene-Frempong (Yale) Soccer, Track
& Field
1996 -- Kurt L. Schmoke (Yale) Football &
Lacrosse
1997 -- Jack Ford (Yale) Football
1998 -- Larie Mifflin (Yale) Field Hockey
2000 -- Lisa Rosenblum (Yale) Tennis
2004 -- Virginia Anne Gilder (Yale) Rowing
2005 -- Gary Lawrence (Yale) Ice Hockey
2006 -- Susan Wellington (Yale) Women's Swimming & Softball
2007 -- Gail (Koziara) Boudreaux (Dartmouth) Basketball & Track & Field; Steve Jordan (Brown) Football; Patricia Melton (Yale) Track & Field
NCAA Today's Top VIII
Awards The Today's Top VIII Awards
provide the Association with the opportunity to honor eight
outstanding senior student-athletes of the preceding
calendar year
1978 -- Daniel R. Mackesey
(Cornell) Lacrosse & Soccer
1991 -- Meredith L. Rainey (Harvard) Track & Field
1999 -- Emily Stauffer (Harvard) Soccer
2000 -- Josh Sims (Princeton) Lacrosse
2006 -- Nick Hartigan (Brown) Football
2007 -- Allison Crocker (Dartmouth) Skiing & Rowing
NCAA Inspiration
Awards A special award that is not presented on an annual basis. Selection is based on inspirational action occurring before the NCAA Honors Celebration.
2003 -- Amanda Walton (Yale '02) Field Hockey & Lacrosse
2006 -- John Doar (Princeton '44) Basketball
The "Teddy" award is the highest
honor the NCAA may confer on an individual.
Named after President Theodore Roosevelt, whose concern for
the conduct of intercollegiate athletics led to the
formation of the NCAA in 1906, this annual award is given to
an individual "for whom competitive athletics in college and
attention to physical well-being thereafter have been
important factors in a distinguished career of national
significance and achievement."
More specifically,"The Theodore Roosevelt Award shall be
presented annually to a distinguished citizen of national
reputation and outstanding accomplishment who -- having
graduated from an NCAA member institution and having earned
a varsity athletics award in college or having participated
in competitive intercollegiate athletics in college -- has
by a continuing interest and concern for physical fitness
and competitive sport and by personal example exemplified
most clearly and forcefully the ideals and purposes to which
collegiate athletics programs and amateur sports competition
are dedicated."
1968 -- Leverett Saltonstall
(Harvard '14) Rowing, Football & Ice Hockey
U.S. Senator; Governor, Massachusetts
1972 -- Jerome H. Holland (Cornell '39) Football
U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
1986 -- George H.W. Bush (Yale '48) Baseball
President of the United States
2006 -- Robert Kraft (Columbia) Lightweight Football
Philanthropist/Owner of New England Patriots
