{"id":33262,"date":"2004-09-14T14:51:24","date_gmt":"2004-09-14T18:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33262"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:32:41","slug":"wanless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/09\/14\/wanless\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Wanless &#039;04 Named Maine&#039;s NCAA Woman of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/09\/wanless2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/09\/wanless2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"Liz Wanless &#039;04\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz Wanless is one of 52 state finalists for the 2004 NCAA Woman of  the Year award after earning the title for the State of Maine. The award  honors outstanding female student-athletes who have excelled in  academics, athletics and community leadership, and have completed their  collegiate athletics eligibility. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wanless &#8217;04 (Belleville, Ill.), the 2004 indoor and outdoor NCAA  champion in the shot put and an All-America volleyball player, is the  third student-athlete to represent Bates as Maine&#8217;s NCAA Woman of the  Year. Amanda Colby &#8217;00 and Peggy Ficks &#8217;01 were also Maine winners of  the award.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bates has been fortunate to have so many strong nominees in recent  years,&#8221; said Bates Director of Athletics Suzanne Coffey. &#8220;Liz continues  that tradition, and we are happy that her achievements have been  recognized with such a prestigious honor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wanless, who will compete for the University of Florida&#8217;s women&#8217;s  outdoor track and field team as a graduate student this year, is  eligible for the award since she has finished her career at Bates as an  NCAA Division III athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Wanless is one of just 11 Division III athletes to be a state  finalist. A national winner \u2013 the NCAA Woman of the Year \u2013 will be  selected by the NCAA Committee on Women&#8217;s Athletics from among 10  finalists.\u00a0 The top 10 finalists will be announced Wednesday, Sept. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The national winner will be announced at the 2004 NCAA Woman of the  Year dinner Sunday, Oct. 31, at The Indianapolis Westin.\u00a0 This is the  14th year that the award \u2013 one of the top honors the NCAA bestows \u2013 will  be given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liz Wanless is one of 52 state finalists for the 2004 NCAA Woman of the Year award after earning the title for the State of Maine. The award honors outstanding female student-athletes who have excelled in academics, athletics and community leadership, and have completed their collegiate athletics eligibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,7,24],"tags":[5375,6323,8783],"class_list":["post-33262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-athletics","tag-liz-wanless","tag-ncaa-champion","tag-track-and-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90612,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33262\/revisions\/90612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}