Whitney Engen named ACC's top female athlete

Posted Aug 5, 2010
UNC’s Whitney Engen and Duke’s Ned Crotty, both national players of the year who helped their teams to NCAA championships, are the ACC’s Athletes of the Year for 2009-10. Engen, a senior from Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., is the 2009 winner of the Honda Award as the nation’s premier player. She was the leader of a Tar Heel defense that shut out 10 of its final 11 opponents. (The ACC)

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