INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 6. SWIMMING legend John Naber is among the six NCAA Silver Anniversary Award recipients announced today by the NCAA Honors Committee. <\/p>\n
The Silver Anniversary Award recognizes former student-athletes who have distinguished themselves since completing their college athletics careers 25 years ago. <\/p>\n
Past aquatics winners include three-time Olympian, Dr. Gary Hall Sr., and Olympic diver Cynthia Potter.<\/p>\n
This year's honorees have achieved a wide range of accomplishments since they graduated from college. For instance, two of the six were gold-medal winners in the 1976 Olympic Games, one was a United States Secretary of Transportation, one is a winner of 34 Ladies Professional Golf Association career titles, one is the leader of the nation\u2019s largest compensation and benefits consulting company, and another is a former NBA player and the basketball coach at a large university.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s honorees are:
\n\u00b7\tRichard C. Chapman, Augustana College (South Dakota), basketball, president and chief executive officer of a compensation and benefits consulting company.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tMaurice "Bo" Ellis, Marquette University, basketball, men\u2019s head basketball coach at Chicago State University.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tHerman R. Frazier, Arizona State University, track and field, director of athletics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tBetsy King, Furman University, golf and basketball, professional golfer.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tJohn Naber, University of Southern California; swimming and diving; operator of Naber and Associates, a firm that provides motivational speakers and other services.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tRodney E. Slater, Eastern Michigan University, football, an attorney at a Washington, D.C., law firm.<\/p>\n
The recipients will be honored Sunday, January 13, at the Honors Dinner during the annual NCAA Convention in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n
The award winners were selected by the NCAA Honors Committee, which is composed of eight athletics administrators at member institutions and nationally distinguished citizens who are former student-athletes. The members of the NCAA Honors Committee are: Harry Carson, president, Harry Carson, Inc.; Eugene F. Corrigan, commissioner emeritus, Atlantic Coast Conference; Joseph Crowley, regents\u2019 professor\/president emeritus, University of Nevada; Clyde Doughty Jr., athletics director, New York Institute of Technology; Jack Ford, ABC news anchor\/correspondent; Jo Ann Harper, senior associate athletics director, Dartmouth College; Karen L. Johnson, director of institutional research, Alfred University and Valerie Richardson, assistant commissioner, West Coast Conference.<\/p>\n
Potential candidates are nominated by NCAA member institutions and selected by the committee.<\/p>\n
John Naber
\nUniversity of Southern California
\nSwimming and diving
\nOperator, Naber and Associates<\/b><\/p>\n
The four-time 1976 Olympic gold medalist set world records in the 100- and 200-meter backstroke and the 400- and 800-meter medley relay and also won a silver medal in the 200-meter freestyle that same year. In addition, he set 100- and 200-meter Olympic backstroke records that lasted seven years after his retirement.<\/p>\n
As a college student-athlete, he led the University of Southern California to four straight NCAA team championships from 1974 through 1977 and was a 15-time champion (10 individual titles and five on relay teams). The high-point scorer at all four NCAA championships in which he competed, Naber was named an NCAA Today\u2019s Top V recipient in 1978. He won the 1977 James E. Sullivan Award as the nation\u2019s Amateur Athlete of the Year.<\/p>\n
Since 1982, he has operated Naber and Associates, which provides motivational speakers, personal appearances, sports-related marketing and consultations for corporations interested in using athletes for promotions. He was an Olympic broadcaster in 2000 in Sydney, his seventh Olympic assignment, and has been a play-by-play host for more than 30 different Olympic sports, as well as an announcer for NBC Sports, CBS Sports and ABC\u2019s Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n
Naber is president of the United States Olympic Alumni Association, and he served as a torchbearer in the Olympic Torch Relay in 1984 and 1996 and will do so again in 2002.<\/p>\n
He has worked for the Children\u2019s Miracle Network and is an active fund-raiser for the United States Olympic Committee and his alma mater. Naber also is a member of the Character Counts sports all-stars and an advisor to the Character Counts! Coalition and has worked with the Healthy Competition Foundation to educate youth of the dangers of taking performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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