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The University of Utah Athletics
Women's Basketball Recipients Of The John And Nellie Wooden Coach Of The Year and The Frank Layden Award
3/29/2001 12:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 29, 2001
Salt Lake City - Two of the nation's most prominent Division I coaches will be honored Saturday, April 7th, along with the Frank Layden Award recipients at the Annual Frank Layden and John & Nellie Wooden Awards Banquet sponsored by the Utah Tip Off Club.
Elaine Elliott of the University of Utah and Mike Montgomery of Stanford University are the coaches who will attend the Salt Lake City banquet where legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden will personally present the awards named in honor of he and his late wife. Elliott and Montgomery will receive The John and Nellie Wooden Coach of the Year Award. The Utah Tip Off Club's top honor represents excellence in college basketball coaching in the tradition of the teachings taught by John Wooden throughout his career. The noon banquet is Saturday, April 7th in Salt Lake City at Utah's downtown Marriott Hotel. The Utah awards to the collegians and prepsters are named after Frank Layden, long associated with basketball excellence in the Beehive State.
The Frank Layden Awards to be presented are: Utah's Amy Ewert and BYU's Mekeli Wesley will be presented the awards for the top women's and men's players for Division I. Ashleigh Chamberlain from UVSC and Marcus Banks from Dixie will receive the Junior College Player of the Year Awards.
Those interested in attending the banquet or joining the Utah Tip Off Club may call 801-397-3300.
The selection of Elliott and Montgomery was determined by a national panel of more than 60 prestigious college and professional basketball coaches, executives and sportscasters. This is the fifth year the Utah Tip Off Club has given this award in conjunction with Coach Wooden. The inclusion of Wooden's late wife Nellie's name to the honor was done as both a tribute to her and in recognition of the high caliber and quality of women basketball coaches.
The Utah Tip Off Club was organized in November, 1996 in Salt Lake City by a group of community leaders, basketball enthusiasts and corporate officials to recognize outstanding high school and collegiate basketball players and coaches in Utah. Each year the club awards The John and Nellie Wooden Award to the top men's and women's college basketball coaches in America. Past winners of the John and Nellie Wooden Coach of the Year Award were Jody Conradt of Texas and Minnesota's Clem Haskins (1997), Tennessee's Pat Summitt and Rick Majerus of Utah (1998), Purdue's Carolyn Peck and Auburn's Cliff Ellis (1999) and North Carolina's Kay Yow and Tulsa's Bill Self (2000).
Previous winners of the Utah Tip Off Club's Frank Layden Yearly Awards include Utah's Alex Jensen(2000), Utah's Andre Miller (1998-99), Utah's Keith Van Horn(1997), BYU's Jill Adams(2000), Cady Williams of BYU(1999), Utah's Julie Krommenhoek (1998), Utah's Hilary King (1997), SLCC's Travis Spivey(2000), Snow's Trent Whiting(1999), Eddie Gill of SLCC(1998), CEU's K'Zell Weason(1997), Dixie College's Caroline Heaton(2000), Ashley Miller of SLCC(1999), UVSC's Tirzah Church(1998), UVSC's Mary Hunter(1997), Brighton's Garner Meads(2000), Timpview's Marc Roberts(1999), Tony Brown of Mountain Crest(1998), Provo's Mekeli Wesley(1997), Bonneville's Kelsy Stireman(2000), Erin Thorn of Mountain View(1999), Mountain View's Lisa Osguthorpe(1998) and Sarah Pratt(1997).
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