Sarah Dance was the female winner of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, the 2005 Walter Byers Award, in recognition of being the nation's top female scholar-athlete. She was a 28-time All-American swimmer who helped lead Truman State University to four national championships.
Early life and education Dance is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. She initially enrolled at the University of Nebraska for her freshman year before transferring to Truman State, where she majored in exercise science with a biology minor and graduated with a perfect GPA.
Awards and honors
2005 Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship (female recipient). 2005 ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America Women’s At-Large (College Division) Academic All-American of the Year. 2006 NCAA Today’s Top VIII (now Today’s Top 10) Award (class of 2006).
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