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NCAA Honors Celebration Highlights to Air on ESPN2

For Immediate Release

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Jennifer Royer
Associate Director of Public and Media Relations
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INDIANAPOLIS---Highlights of the NCAA Honors Celebration will air at 2 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday, February 15, on ESPN2.

Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell and former Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow are among the many individuals who were honored for their contributions to intercollegiate athletics at the Honors Celebration at the NCAA Convention in Atlanta in January.

Mitchell was given the Association’s highest honor – the Theodore Roosevelt Award – for his decades-long career as a public servant. University of Florida quarterback Tebow, meanwhile, was among the collection of outstanding student-athletes honored as the Today’s Top VIII.

The NCAA also honored Richard Phillips, a former basketball student-athlete at Massachusetts Maritime, and Roxana Saberi, a former soccer player at Concordia-Moorhead, with the 2010 NCAA Award of Valor.

Phillips, captain of a merchant vessel, surrendered himself to ensure his crew’s safety after pirates hijacked their ship was hijacked in the Indian Ocean. Saberi was working as a journalist in Iran when she was arrested and jailed for several months.

Click on the links below for summaries of all the award winners for 2010. Click here for more information about the NCAA honors program.