University of North Carolina Ashville Athletics
Jill Young Booth Inducted into Big South Hall of Fame
05.30.2008 | Women's Soccer
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Former UNC Asheville women's soccer player Jill Young Booth was officially inducted into the Big South Conference Hall of Fame, along with five other recepients, Thursday night at the at The Sea Pines Resort as part of the League's annual Spring Meetings and Hall of Fame & Awards Dinner.
The sixth Big South Hall of Fame class consists of Liberty's Peter Aluma (men's basketball), Winthrop's Jeff Greene (men's cross country/track), Coastal Carolina's Tomas Malik (men's tennis) and Campbell's Janet Wooten Collins (women's golf) along with Young. The 2008 Hall of Fame class was first announced on April 3.
Young 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 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). Her 12 shutouts are a single-season Big South record, and her 25 career shutouts still rank first in League history.
In 1995, Young was ranked nationally in shutouts, goals against average 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. She was the first goalkeeper in League history to earn All-Conference honors three times.
Young becomes the second UNC Ashevile former student-athlete to be inducted into the Big South Hall of Fame. Former volleyball standout Ilona Fekete-Thimmer was inducted in the first class in 2003.
