became the third Cavalier ever to win the Mary Garber Award, presented annually to the most outstanding female student-athlete in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Walsh joins a distinguished trio of athletes in former UVA women's soccer star Morgan Brian, who won the award in 2015, and former Virginia women's basketball star Dawn Staley, who repeated as the Mary Garber Award winner in 1991 and 1992.
Walsh received 31 votes to win the award, beating out Virginia Tech's Liz Kitley and Boston College's Sydney Scales . The award is named after Mary Garber, one of the first female sports journalists in America and the first woman to be inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame.
Gretchen Walsh is one of six current, former, or future Cavalier swimmers representing Team USA in the 2024 Paris Olympics, including her sister and UVA teammate Alex Walsh.Managing Editor and Publisher, CavaliersNow Email: mattnewton@virginia.eduTwitter: @mattynewtssWebsite | LinkedIn | Instagram Matt Newton is the managing editor and publisher at CavaliersNow. He has been covering UVA athletics since 2019 and has been the managing editor at CavaliersNow since launching the site in August 2021.