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Buckner Named Michigan’s NCAA Woman of the Year

Former Ferris State University student-athlete Morgan Buckner was named the state of Michigan’s 2002 National Collegiate Athletic Association Woman of the Year and was one of 10 finalists nationally for the NCAA Woman of the Year.
A third-team 2001-02 Verizon Academic All-America College Division Women’s Track and Field/Cross Country Team honoree, Buckner was a four-year varsity letterwinner in women’s volleyball and indoor and outdoor track and field at Ferris State. She compiled a 3.69 cumulative grade point average while earning two degrees in applied speech communication and recreation leadership management. The two-time President’s Academic Award recipient also volunteered for a wide variety of community service organizations and held numerous campus leadership positions, including serving as the Lambda Phi Eta National Communication Honor Society Chapter President.
Buckner also received Ferris’s 2001-02 Helen Bennett Award for being the University’s outstanding female student-athlete.

Marc Sheehan
 sheehanm@ferris.edu
News and Communications Coordinator