STATE COLLEGE, Pa., November 27, 2000 - Senior Traci Anselmo (Selinsgrove, Pa./Selinsgrove) is one of four nominees for the 2000-2001 Field Hockey Honda Award. The nomination follows a long list of accolades that she has received this season. The presitigious award is presented to the top woman collegiate athlete in field hockey. After a nation-wide balloting, the winner will become a nominee for the Honda-Broderick Cup which is awarded annually to the nation's outstanding collegiate woman athete.

Anselmo caps a four-year career at Penn State with a stellar senior campaign. Captain of the 2000 Lady Lion field hockey squad, Anselmo has already been named Big Ten Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year, Mideast Regional All-America and first team all-America. The list goes on as she was also selected first-team all-conference and all-Big Ten Tournament. Anselmo led the Lady Lions to a 19th-consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, a 17-6 record overall, and a second-place showing in the conference. She led the Big Ten in scoring with a career-high 47 points. She also set the record for most assists in a Big Ten Tournament game with three against Indiana in the first round.

A member of the U.S. Senior Reserve team, Anselmo became the 12th Lady Lion to ever tally 100 career points. She ranks fifth all-time in goals with 58, 10th in assists (25) and seventh in points (141). In 1998, she was named the Big Ten Tournament Most Valuable Player when the Lions won their fourth-consecutive conference tournament crown. As a junior, she was named HockeyPoint!'s National Player of the Week and was the only rookie to be named to the all-tournament team in 1997. She is a two-time first team all-America pick and four-time all-Big Ten tournament slection.

Anselmo compliments her outstanding athletic career with an outstanding academic career. A two-time Big Ten all-academic team selection, she is on the National Dean's List and is an academic all-America nominee. She is a member of the Psychology Honor Society and plans to attend medical school after she graduates from Penn State. A Letters, Arts and Sciences major, she carries a 3.36 grade point average.

Joining Anselmo on the ballot are Marina DiGiacomo of Old Dominion, Michigan's Kelli Gannon and Maryland's Carla Tagliente.