Holt Honoured
McMaster University’s Female Athlete of the Year Award has been renamed the Therese Quigley Female Athlete of the Year Award in honour of Therese Quigley, McMaster’s director of athletics and recreation.
The announcement was made at the 85th annual athletic awards ceremony, which recognizes McMaster’s outstanding athletes.
Quigley served McMaster University for 24 years, holding the position of director of athletics and recreation for the past 18 years. Quigley will take on the position of director of sports and recreation services at the University of Western Ontario this summer.
The first recipients of the Thérèse Quigley Female Athlete of the Year Award are volleyball setter Jennifer Holt and middle distance and cross country runner Jillian Wyman.
Holt was named a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) First Team All-Canadian. She is McMaster’s first women’s volleyball player to be named to the CIS first team.
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