INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Honors Committee has announced the six NCAA Silver Anniversary Award recipients for 2005.  The Silver Anniversary Award recognizes former student-athletes who have distinguished themselves since completing their college athletics careers 25 years ago.

The recipients will be honored Sunday, January 9, 2005, at the Honors Dinner during the NCAA Convention in Dallas.  Rece Davis, ESPN and ESPN2 college basketball and college football studio host and SportsCenter anchor/reporter, will serve as emcee of the event.

The honorees for 2005 are:

* Mark Johnson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, men’s ice hockey

* Gary Lawrence, Yale University, men’s ice hockey and men’s golf

* Paul McDonald, University of Southern California, football

* Greg Meredith, University of Notre Dame, men’s ice hockey

* Joan Benoit Samuelson, Bowdoin College, track and field and field hockey

* Dave Stoldt, University of Illinois, Champaign, men’s gymnastics

Recipients were chosen by the NCAA Honors Committee, which is composed of administrators at member institutions and prominent citizens who also formerly were student-athletes.  The members of the NCAA Honors Committee are:

Ced Dempsey, president emeritus of the NCAA; Clyde Doughty Jr., athletics director, New York Institute of Technology; Jo Ann Harper, director of athletics, Dartmouth College; Susan M. Hartmann, faculty athletics representative, history department, Ohio State University; Calvin Hill, Alexander & Associates, Inc; Karen L. Johnson, director of institutional research, Alfred University; and Valerie Richardson, chair, associate athletics director/SWA, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Potential candidates are nominated by NCAA member institutions and selected by the committee.