BOCA RATON, Fla. – (Oct. 2, 2019) – Florida Atlantic University volleyball senior outside hitter Sigourney Kame has been named as one of 30 candidates for the 2019 Senior CLASS Award. The award is given to student-athletes who have extraordinary achievements in four areas: community, classroom, character and competition. CLASS is an acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School.
A Conference USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll member, Kame made the C-USA All-Academic Team as a sophomore and is on track to graduate in the spring with her degree in exercise science and health promotion.
On the court, Kame made the conference All-Freshman team in 2016 and has been named All-Conference First Team in each of the last two seasons. Last season, along with teammates Massiel Matos and Ivone Martinez, she also made the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Region team. Kame is currently seventh in program history with 1,087 career kills.
Kame is also active in the community, both as a member of the Owls’ volleyball team and through her church. She has volunteered for Boca Helping Hands and A.D. Henderson School, among others.
The 30 candidates will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one candidate who best exemplifies excellence in the four C’s of community, classroom, character and competition. The Senior CLASS Award winner will be announced during the 2019 NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championship in December.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
