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Video:Autumn Festival By Nathan Blount" Zach Evans Rachel Kurowski and Margot Schneider /DTH Carolina Singapore Assiociation brings a traditional Singapore festival to UNC.
Two UNC athletes are in the running to earn college athlete of the year awards July 20. Rising senior Tyler Hansbrough and recent graduate Rachel Dawson are up for Male and Female College Athlete of the Year awards, respectively, in the ESPYs, the annual sports awards ceremony determined by fan votes and hosted by ESPN. Last season the Associated Press named Hansbrough its Collegiate Player of the Year. He also won the Wooden and Naismith awards. Hansbrough helped lead the Tar Heels to an ACC title and the NCAA Final Four, averaging 22.6 points and 10.2 rebounds per game. But it is not the statistics that stand out in the forward's repertoire; it is the records he already has broken - and the number he is in line to break this season. He is on track to become the ACC's all-time point and rebound leader during his senior season. Hansbrough said joining the ranks of college basketball's greatest means a lot to him. "I feel very honored to be up there with those guys," he said. And though Hansbrough said winning awards, such as the potential ESPY, is an honor, he has his eyes on more than individual honors in his last year at North Carolina. "Right now I'd say that a national championship would be a great way to end," he said. Though Hansbrough might be sticking around for the title, fellow ESPY nominee and Kansas State freshman phenom Michael Beasley was drafted No. 2 overall by the Miami Heat in June. Beasley finished third in season scoring with 26.2 points per game and first in rebounding with 12.4 per game. Rounding out the nominees is Florida quarterback Tim Tebow. Tebow won the Heisman Trophy last season, the first college football player to both throw and rush for 20 touchdowns in one season. The sophomore Gator helped lead his team to a national title. And though much can be said for a national title, North Carolina field hockey standout Dawson makes the case that winning one game is not enough. As National Player of the Year, Dawson led her team in to an undefeated national championship season, 24-0. Dawson scored 19 goals this season and earned ACC Defensive Player of the Year for the second time. She now is playing with the U.S. national team in Beijing. The Tennessee women's basketball team might not have been undefeated, but the Lady Vols did win their second national championship in a row, led by ESPY nominee and Player of the Year Candace Parker. Parker was drafted No. 1 overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in April. Also nominated is Virginia Tech pitcher Angela Tincher, who led her team to its first College World Series on a 49-19 season. The ESPYs will air at 9 p.m. July 20 on ESPN. Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu
Fulfilling your dreams does not always mean winning, and two North Carolina swimmers discovered that at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials this summer. Rising sophomore Joe Kinderwater qualified for the 2008 Trials when he was 16, and has been waiting two and a half years for June 29 to roll around and the competition to begin. The young, but seasoned swimmer said it was exciting just to get to go to the trials. "It had always been a dream of mine ever since I was little," Kinderwater said. Of those who made the preliminary round, the top eight swimmers move on to the final. Kinderwater said his biggest goal was to make that cut. "I always said that I wanted to make finals, but I didn't think I was going to," Kinderwater said. "I knew I had to drop a lot of time to make top eight." And drop a lot of time he did. In the preliminary meet, Kinderwater beat his previous personal best in the 1500-meter freestyle by over nine seconds. The next day, in the finals, Kinderwater swam a 15:21.84, improving over his 15:22.45 from the preliminaries. Kinderwater said he had never swam two consecutive days in that lengthy a competition, but he did not change his preparation style. "I had confidence and that helped my body stay physically able to do it," Kinderwater said. Another factor that helped Kinderwater swim so well was his lack of Olympic experience. Kinderwater said since it was his first time at the trials, he was less nervous than at previous competitions in which he has raced. "I had no pressure, so it was easy for me to swim like it was any other meet," Kinderwater said. Kinderwater also enjoyed support from fellow UNC swimmers at the trials, and some of his teammates made splashes of their own. Of the Tar Heels who competed, four posted top-12 finishes, although Kinderwater was the only one to make the finals. Rising senior Whitney Sprague was three spots short of landing in the 800-meter freestyle final. She finished 2.51 seconds behind eighth-place Katie Carroll. Sprague said she felt competitive throughout the race, and she never expected to win. 2008 was Sprague's first time qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Trials. She missed the trials four years ago by under a second. "It was a relief (to make the trials) because I have been trying for so long," Sprague said. Sprague said her goal was to swim her hardest, and she did, posting a school record and career-best time, 8:40.16. She added that the trials in Omaha, Neb., were the best races she has ever attended. "The whole experience was just unbelievable," Sprague said. "Watching world records being broken, it was amazing." With four years until the next Olympic trials, the Tar Heels will turn their focuses elsewhere. Kinderwater and Sprague, along with other UNC swimmers, will head to the U.S. Open in August to compete for a spot at the World University Games that will take place next summer. Contact the Sports Editor at sports@unc.edu