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3/5/09 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL - Albert Chosen As Finalist For National "Comeback" Award |
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 RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Felician College graduate student Suzanne Albert (Montreal, Quebec/Mont-Royal has been named as one of 10 finalists for the 2009 V Foundation Comeback Award. The award, presented anually since 2001 by the V Foundation for Cancer Research, is open to male or female college basketball student-athletes in all divisions who have accomplished a personal triumph in the face of adversity.
Albert, who was nominated by the Felician athletics department, is one of only two finalists from non-Division I schools. Her story of fighting multiple sclerosis and a serious knee injury to return to collegiate volleyball and basketball is chronicled at www.felicianathletics.com/content/view/1136/39/.
The V Foundation Comeback Award is presented in memory of Jim Valvano, the late basketball coach and ESPN commentator, whose personal battle with cancer inspired the creation of the V Foundation. For more information on this year's finalists and the award itself, as well as a list of previous winners, please see www.jimmyv.org/about-us/news/43-v-news/750-2009-v-foundation-comeback-award-finalists-announced.html.
The winner of the 2009 award will be announced during ESPN's coverage of the Division I men's Final Four/NIT weekend. |
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