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FAIRFAX, VA, March 30, 2005 -“Incredible.” That’s the word used to describe track and field athlete Sharonda Latrice Johnson.
“Sharonda is the absolute best and brightest. She is the first
athletic, as well as academic, All-American Charlotte has ever had,”
says Lisa Hibbs, director of the University of North
Carolina-Charlotte’s Athletic Academic Advising Center.
It is Johnson’s performance on and off the track that led Black Issues In Higher Education
editors to select the junior chemistry major as its female Arthur Ashe
Jr. Sports Scholars of the Year for best exemplifying high standards of
scholarship, athleticism and humanitarianism. Johnson is featured in
the April 7, 2005, edition of Black Issues In Higher Education, along with the male Sports Scholar of the Year Michigan State University basketball guard Chris Hill.
The Arthur Ashe Sports Scholars Award is just one of the many honors and awards Johnson has received.
