[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 43 (Tuesday, April 19, 1994)]
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         COMMENDING CAROL ANN SHUDLICK, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

 Mr. DURENBERGER. Mr. President, this past Thursday, University 
of Minnesota senior Carol Ann Shudlick was named the winner of the 1994 
Margaret Wade Trophy. This distinguished award is given to the most 
outstanding woman college basketball player in the Nation, and is based 
not only on athletic achievement, but also the qualities of leadership 
and academic accomplishment.
  Carol Ann's contributions to both the University of Minnesota and her 
local community reach far beyond the basketball court. She will 
graduate this spring with a degree in advertising and has been invited 
to participate in the USA women's basketball team trials in Colorado 
Springs. I ask that the attacked articles which appeared in the 
Minneapolis Star/Tribune and the Saint Paul Pioneer Press be included 
in the Record at the conclusion of my remarks.
  Mr. President, each and every Minnesotan should feel pride in all 
Carol Ann has accomplished and, more importantly, all she will 
contribute to the future of our country.
  The articles follow:

           [From the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Apr. 16, 1994]

   Shudlick Wins Top Honor--``U'' Basketball Star To Get Wade Trophy

       Like a defender coming from behind, the Margaret Wade 
     Trophy crept up on Carol Ann Shudlick.
       The University of Minnesota center was unaware until 
     Thursday that she was one of six senior finalists for the 
     most-coveted award in women's college basketball. Late that 
     night, coach Linda Hill-MacDonald called to tell her she had 
     won it.
       ``She asked what I was doing and then told me,'' Shudlick 
     said Friday afternoon at a hastily called news conference. 
     ``I was unbelievably excited and overwhelmed. . . . It's a 
     tremendous honor. I look at the previous winners, just to be 
     considered in the same company, I'm in awe.''
       The Wade Trophy is named for former Delta State coach 
     Margaret Wade, who in 1985 became the first college coach 
     inducted into the National Basketball Hall of Fame. Past 
     recipients of the trophy include such well-known college 
     players as Nancy Lieberman, Lynette Woodard and Cheryl 
     Miller. Shudlick will receive her award Nov. 19 in Jackson, 
     Tenn.
       Shudlick averaged 23.4 points this season and led the 
     Gophers to an 18-11 record and their first appearance in the 
     NCAA tournament. Recently, she was named to the Kodak first 
     All-America team, one of the criteria for Wade Trophy 
     consideration. A national selection committee of women's 
     athletic administrators also judged candidates for the award 
     on character and academics. Shudlick is an advertising major 
     with a 3.13 grade-point average who has volunteered for 
     numerous public service causes.
       ``This is the women's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy,'' 
     said Hill-MacDonald, referring to the award given annually to 
     the best player in college football. ``It's an honor for all 
     of us. I was so thrilled when I got the word, I started 
     crying.''
       The 6-foot Shudlick, a three-time Gophers team MVP, is the 
     first Big Ten Conference player to receive the award.
       ``She was a fundamentally sound player,'' Hill-MacDonald 
     said. ``There was not a lot of flash in her game, but flash 
     players develop inconsistencies. She would get it done game 
     after game. . . . And for Carol Ann, her accomplishments were 
     not enough if we were not winning.''
       Shudlick finished with a school-record 2,097 points and 
     scored in double figures in her last 56 games. Her best game 
     might have been against 1993 national champion Texas Tech on 
     Dec. 18 when Shudlick tied her school single-game record with 
     44 points, 12 in overtime, in a 92-82 victory.
       Said Hill-MacDonald, ``In overtime, she seemed possessed. 
     Nobody could stop her. She had the heads of their post 
     players spinning.''
       Shudlick came to Minnesota after being named Miss 
     Basketball as a senior at Apple Valley. ``She was a 
     phenomenal player and athlete in both basketball and 
     volleyball,'' said Ruth Sinn, who coached Carol Ann in 
     basketball as a senior and all three of her younger sisters, 
     too.
       ``I know she was going to be a star. She had great hands, 
     great speed for her size and her jumping ability was 
     phenomenal. She was one of those players without 
     limitations. A lot of times you get players like that and 
     they don't have a work ethic. But she was constantly 
     asking how she could make herself better. She worked to 
     improve.''
       Shudlick is still that way. Although her college career is 
     over, she hopes her basketball days are not. Friday night, 
     she was to leave for a college all-star game Sunday at 
     Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
       She also is one of 54 players invited to the USA women's 
     basketball team trials April 28-May 4 in Colorado Springs. 
     Two teams will be picked there to compete in international 
     tournaments this summer and some of those players could be 
     Olympians someday.
       Shudlick also has an agent trying to find a spot for her on 
     a professional women's team next season in Europe, preferably 
     in France. She took six quarters of French in college.
       ``I'll miss my family and friends,'' Shudlick said. ``I'd 
     like to stay at home if I could do the same thing in the 
     U.S.''
       The Wade Trophy should help Shudlick in her job search: 
     ``As with anything, people ask, `What have you done?''' 
     Notes/ Louisiana Tech coach Leon Barmore, who has coached 
     three Wade Trophy winners: ``It's a tremendous honor. It will 
     be meaningful to (Shudlick) for the rest of her life and will 
     bring a lot of recognition to her school.''


                           the shudlick file

       A look at the career of Gophers senior basketball player 
     and Wade Trophy winner Carol Ann Shudlick:
       Age/21, Height/6-0, Hometown/Apple Valley, Position Post/
     forward, Honors and achievements/1993-94 Kodak All-America. . 
     . . 1994 Big Ten MVP. . . . Three-time All-Big Ten selection, 
     first team as a junior and senior. . . . Leading scorer in 
     Gophers women's history. . . . Nine-time Big Ten Player of 
     the Week. . . . Named to Big Ten All-Academic team three 
     consecutive years. . . . Owns Gophers record for points in a 
     single game, twice scoring 44. . . . Named Miss Basketball in 
     Minnesota in 1990.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Year       G          FG-FGA         FT-FTA        Pts.        Avg.   
------------------------------------------------------------------------
90-91...      24         107-230         71-97         285       11.9   
91-92...      27         226-440        95-133         547       20.3   
92-93...      26         253-470        81-104         587       22.6   
93-94...      29         268-542       142-189         678       23.4   
         ---------------------------------------------------------------
Totals..     106       854-1,682       389-523       2,097       19.8   
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       Recipients of the Wade Trophy Award, given to the top 
     senior women's basketball player in the nation:
       1994/Carol Ann Shudlick, Gophers, 1993/Karen Jennings, 
     Nebraska, 1992/Susan Robinson, Penn State, 1991/Daedra 
     Charles, Tennessee, 1990/Jennifer Azzi, Stanford, 1989/
     Clarissa Davis, Texas, 1988/Teresa Weatherspoon, La. Tech, 
     1987/Shelly Pennefather, Villanova.
       1986/Kami Ethridge, Texas, 1985/Cheryl Miller, USC, 1984/
     Janice Lawrence, Louisiana Tech, 1983/LaTaunya Pollard, L. 
     Beach St., 1982/Pam Kelly, Louisiana Tech, 1981/Lynette 
     Woodard, Kansas, 1980/Nancy Lieberman, Old Dominion, 1979/
     Nancy Lieberman, Old Dominion, 1978/Carol Blazejowski, 
     Montclair St.
                                  ____


           [From the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Apr. 18, 1994]

              Gophers' Shudlick Gets Her Sport's Top Honor

                          (By Charley Hallman)

       Carol Ann Shudlick of the University of Minnesota won the 
     Wade Trophy on Friday, an award her coach, Linda Hill-
     MacDonald, referred to as the Heisman Trophy for collegiate 
     women basketball players.
       ``I'm so thrilled for Carol Ann, I started crying,'' Hill-
     MacDonald said at a press conference at the University 
     Women's Sports Pavilion. ``It's hard to express how I feel, 
     but she is an extremely deserving recipient.''
       Shudlick, of Apple Valley, became the Gophers' top career 
     scorer this season (2,097 points) while leading her team to a 
     fourth-place finish in the Big Ten and a berth in the NCAA 
     championships. Minnesota beat Notre Dame in the first round 
     but lost to Vanderbilt in its second game.
       A two-time Big Ten all-conference selection, Shudlick was 
     honored as a first team All-America player two weeks ago. 
     Since then, she has received several other All-America 
     honors, was named the Big Ten's most valuable player and, 
     earlier this week, was named Chicago Tribune Big Ten player 
     of the year.
       Surrounded by her father, Harold, her mother, Barbara, and 
     her three sisters, Nancy (a Gophers teammate), Linda and 
     Susan, Carol Ann said, ``This is a great honor and one I've 
     never thought about getting. I'm overwhelmed with everything 
     that I've gotten. I'm surprised.''
       Criteria for the Wade Trophy which is awarded by the 
     National Association of Girls and Women in Sport, include 
     being a positive role model for women in sports, being 
     committed to academics, and demonstrating leadership.
       Shudlick has a 3.13 grade-point average; has been named to 
     the Big Ten all-academic team for three years, and will 
     graduate this spring with a degree in advertising.
       The Wade Trophy has been given since 1978 to the ``nation's 
     most outstanding female senior basketball player'' by the 
     National Association for Girls & Women in Sport.
       One player, Nancy Lieberman of Old Dominion, won the award 
     twice before it was decided in 1981 to award the trophy to 
     only a senior.
       The award is named for Lily Margaret Wade, who retired in 
     1979 after compiling a 610-112 coaching record at Delta State 
     in Mississippi. The winner is chosen by women athletic 
     administrators from across the U.S.
       The trophy is on permanent display in a prominent location 
     of the U.S. Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
       Shudlick is the first Minnesota athlete to receive the 
     award and the first from the Big Ten (Susan Robinson of Penn 
     State was given the trophy in 1992, the year before the 
     Nittany Lions were an official member of the conference).
       Hill-MacDonald said Shudlick is one of 53 players who has 
     been selected for a national team pool that will compete in 
     trials later this year to help select the U.S. National and 
     1996 Olympic teams. She will play in the Women's Collegiate 
     All-Star Game in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday.
       ``I'd like to go to Europe and play professionally,'' 
     Shudlick said. ``We'll just have to see how all of this works 
     out.'' 

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