University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Jill Young-Booth to be Inducted into Big South Hall of Fame in May
04.03.2008 | Women's Soccer
CHARLOTTE ? Former UNC Asheville soccer star Jill Young-Booth has been selected to the Big South Conference Hall of Fame.
Young-Booth will be inducted on May 29 at the league's annual spring meeting at Hilton Head Island, along with four other inductees. Young-Booth was UNC Asheville's starting goalkeeper for four years and helped lead the Bulldogs to the 1995 Big South Conference championship ? the school's first women's soccer title, as well as the program's first-ever regional ranking. She was a First-team All-Conference performer for three-straight years (1994, 1995, 1996) and was the Co-MVP of the 1995 Big South Tournament. Young-Booth is the school's all-time leader in shutouts (25) and saves (297), and she holds the single-season school record for shutouts (12) and goals against average (0.75). In 1995, she was ranked nationally in shutouts, goals against and saves, and she led the Big South Conference in goals against average in both 1995 and 1996.
In 2007, she was inducted into the UNC Asheville Athletics Hall of Fame, becoming the first women's soccer player to be enshrined.
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