The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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122 ■ THE WOLFPACKER Perry leaned on classmate Jonathan Ad- dison, a standout All-American jumper and sprinter in men's track, to help find the necessary balance in her approach. At the Virginia Challenge April 22-23 in Charlottesville, Va., it clicked. Her warm- ups were so good that Perry decided to go straight into the jump without further instructions. She leaped a school-record 21-6.75, the longest jump in the country at the time. From that point on, she was on a path towards history. Perry, who has been made the All- ACC Academic team multiple times, has been nominated for the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year. She's qualified for the Olympic Trials in the long jump and 100 hurdles. She would love to have a chance to con- tinue competing in track, but her work at NC State is done. She said that she hoped her legacy would be, "Someone who just tried to make a name for myself." That she did. ■ Here are the top 10 female athletes during the 2015‑16 school year at NC State after Alexis Perry, The Wolfpacker's Female Athlete of the Year. 1. Megan Moye, Track/Cross Country During the indoor track season, Moye broke a 27‑year‑old school record for the indoor mile and finished seventh in the event at the NCAA Championships to earn first‑team All‑America accolades. She won the 1,500‑meter outdoor ACC title, breaking the school record in that race as well. Moye, a rising senior, owned the second fastest time in the nation in the race, but a bout of food poisoning kept her from advancing to the NCAA Championships. Moye also helped the women's cross country team finish fifth at the NCAA Championships. 2. Erika Kemp, Track/Cross Country Kemp, a rising senior, was NC State's top‑runner at the NCAA Cross Country Champi ‑ onships when the Pack finished fifth. She then had a stellar indoor track season, garnering first‑team All‑America honors in the 5,000 meters by crossing fifth at the NCAA Champi‑ onships, and second‑team All‑America recognition in the 3,000 meters with an 11th‑place finish. She broke the school record for the indoor 5,000 meters and was voted the Southeast Women's Track Athlete of the Year for the indoor season. 3. Alexia Zevnik, Swimming The rising senior excelled in both relays and individual swims for the Wolfpack. She helped the 400 free relay finish fifth at NCAA Champion ‑ ships to earn first‑team All‑America notice, and she swam on the 400 med‑ ley and 800 free relays that garnered honorable mention All‑American. She was also a first‑team All‑Amer‑ ican in the 100 backstroke (sixth‑ place finish at nationals) and 200 back (seventh). She finished runner‑up in both of those two races plus the 200 individual medley at the ACC Cham‑ pionships. She was named a College Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All‑American as well. 4. Tyler Ross, Softball The rising senior outfielder was named second‑team All‑Southeast Region by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association. She registered the second‑highest batting average in school history (.380) and was third in the ACC with 18 home runs, the third most for a season at NC State. She also stole 27 bases and her 65 hits set a single‑season Wolfpack record. Ross was one of just two players in the country with at least 15 home runs and 25 stolen bases this season. 5. Hannah Moore, Swimming The Michigan transfer joined NC State in January and immediately boosted the Wolf ‑ pack squad. She set school records in the 400 individual medley, 500 freestyle and 1,650 freestyle races, finished in the top three in each event at the ACC Championships, and was a first‑team All‑American in the 500 (sixth‑place finish at NCAA Championships) and 1,650 (fourth). She was 16th in the 400 individual medley as well, earning points in all three races to help NC State finish ninth at nationals. Moore, a rising junior, also made the CSCAA Scholar All‑American team. 6. Dominique Wilson, Women's Basketball The transfer from Arkansas, in her second season with NC State, led the Pack in scor‑ ing at 15.3 points per game, which was sixth highest overall in the ACC. In league games only, Wilson averaged 17.1 points, which was the fourth‑best mark for conference games. Wilson, a rising fifth‑year senior guard, was named second‑team All‑ACC by both the league's coaches and the Blue Ribbon Panel, and she surpassed 1,000 career points during the year. 7. Miah Spencer, Women's Basketball The rising senior guard was named second‑team All‑ACC by both the league's coaches and the Blue Ribbon Panel after averaging 14.1 points, 4.8 assists (third highest in the ACC) and 4.5 rebounds per game for the Pack. Her scoring average ticked up in ACC play to 15.3 points per contests, and she played a league‑leading 37.6 minutes per game in conference games only. Like Wil ‑ son, Spencer surpassed 1,000 career points during the year. 8. Ryen Frazier, Cross Country Frazier was just a freshman last fall, and she showed her promising future in some of the season's early events. In her first race for NC State, Frazier won the adidas XC Challenge in a course record time (by 22 seconds) of 16:06.4. In her next race, she de ‑ feated eventual ACC and national champion Molly Seidel at the Notre Dame Invite to win the race. She was twice named the United States Track & Field and Cross Coun‑ try Coaches Association Athlete of the Week and was the leading runner for NCSU when the Pack finished second at the ACC Championships. 9. Molly Hutchison, Softball Hutchison, a rising senior catcher, was named second‑team All‑ACC af ‑ ter starting all 56 games last season and hitting .329. She collected 55 hits, including 11 home runs, and produced a team‑leading 51 runs batted in. Her RBI total was the third highest in pro‑ gram history. She was second on the team in batting average and hits. Hutchison, who also was on the All‑ACC Academic Team, was named the USA Softball Collegiate National Player of the Week March 8, the second player in program history to achieve that. 10. Martina Frantova, Women's Tennis In her first season after transferring into NC State from Mississippi State, the ris ‑ ing senior played the entire season at singles No. 1 and was a second‑team All‑ACC selection. She became the fourth player in program history to earn a NCAA Singles Championship bid. Frantova, who was also named to the All‑ACC Academic Team, became the second NCSU tennis player to be ranked top‑50 in both singles (No. 45) and doubles (No. 48). — Matt Carter TOP 10 WOMEN ATHLETES Junior outfielder Tyler Ross was one of just two players in the country with at least 15 home runs (18) and 25 stolen bases (27) in 2016. PHOTO BY LARRY BLANKENSHIP