Marsha Harris
Marsha Harris was the female winner of the 1998 Walter Byers Award, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, in recognition of being the nation's top female scholar-athlete.[1][2] She was a two-time Kodak Division III All-American who scored the winning basket for the New York University Violets women's basketball team in the 1997 NCAA Division III National Championship game resulting in a 72–70 victory over University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. As of 2005 she was the University Athletic Association's all-time leading scorer and she was in her third year as a surgical resident at the New York University School of Medicine.[3]
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- ^ "Previous Walter Byers Scholars". The National Collegiate Athletic Association. Archived from the original on July 5, 2008. Retrieved January 26, 2008.
- ^ "GRAY, HARRIS RECEIVE BYERS SCHOLARSHIPS". The National Collegiate Athletic Association. April 8, 1998. Archived from the original on February 9, 2005. Retrieved January 26, 2008.
- ^ "New York University Athletics Hall of Fame: 2004 and 2005 Inductees". nyu.edu.
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