NEW YORK – January 19,2005,-Volleyball superstar Ogonna Nnamani, from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, has been voted the nation's top college female volleyball player.  The honour was based on the results of national balloting among NCAA member schools as part of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program, now in its 29th year. 

Nnamani's selection earns her the Honda Award, given annually to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, as well as an automatic nomination for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year honour. 

Nnamani hails from Normal, Illinois.  A senior majoring in Biology/Chemistry, she's an outside hitter who led her team to an NCAA championship last month and was selected as the Most Outstanding Player of the final round after setting an NCAA record with 62 kills in the semi final and final matches, combined. 

Her 823 kills this season set both Pacific-10 Conference and school records and ranks seventh in all-time NCAA competition.  She holds the conference record for career kills (2,450) placing her sixth in all-time NCAA rankings. 

Nnamani was an NCAA Today's Top VIII Award recipient and was tabbed ESPN The Magazine's Volleyball Academic All-American of the Year (University division).  She also competed in Athens, Greece, as a member of the 2004 USA Women's Olympic Volleyball Team. 

The Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year will be determined by separate balloting involving all NCAA-member institutions and will receive the Honda-Broderick Cup in New York in June 2005. 

American Honda Motor Company sponsors the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program.