Courtney Kupets, a UGA gymnast and two-time Honda Award winner, has been awarded the 33rd annual Honda-Broderick Cup, designating her as the 2009 Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year.
The announcement was made June 22 by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program. The award recognizes not only outstanding athletic achievement but also team contributions, scholastics and community involvement.
The first UGA athlete to be honored as Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year, Kupets is also only the second gymnast to receive the Honda-Broderick Cup.
Kupets was also named the 2008-2009 Roy F. Kramer Southeastern Conference Female Athlete of the Year on June 23 by a vote of the league’s athletics directors.
As a senior, Kupets led UGA to its fifth straight NCAA championship title, and she won the all-around, bars, beam and floor individual competitions. She became the first gymnast ever to win a national title in all four events.
Kupets is a National Honor Society member, was chosen as ESPN The Magazine First Team Academic All-American and is a recipient of NCAA and SEC postgraduate scholarships. She is also a member of the Blue Key Honor Society and a recipient of the Richard B. Russell Student Leadership Award. She won UGA’s Marilyn Vincent Award as the senior female student-athlete with the highest GPA.