ROCK HILL, SC – Winthrop women's soccer player
Courtney Durbin has been named a finalist, along with VMI track and field athlete Caroline Wortham, for the Big South Conference Woman of the Year Award for 2011-12.
The Big South Woman of the Year Award will be presented to the winner at the Big South's Awards & Hall of Fame Dinner on Thursday, May 31 in Hilton Head, SC. The Big South's Woman of the Year winner will also be nominated as a candidate for the national NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Durbin was selected as a finalist out of a pool of seven candidates.
Durbin, a native of Perrysburg, OH, recently graduated from Winthrop with a 3.537 GPA and a degree in Nutritional Science and minor in Chemistry. She concluded her four-year career on the women's soccer team capturing back-to-back Big South Co-Regular Season Championships, and played in 78 career games with 72 starts. She ranks second all-time in both goals (22) and points (52) for a career. Durbin was named the Big South Attacking Player of the Year this season, and is also a two-time Big South All-Conference selection.
She tallied eight career game-winning goals, and finished her senior season with a career-best 11 goals and 28 points to rank second on the team in both categories. Durbin was recently awarded Winthrop's Ken Staton Endowment Award, which is given annually to a student-athlete who goes above and beyond the call of duty on the playing field, in the classroom and community.
Durbin is also involved in activities off the soccer field having participated in Winthrop's Student-Athlete Advisory Council each of her four years, serving as Secretary during her sophomore season and Co-President as both a junior and senior. She took part in Samaritan's Feet and Soup for Souls, as well as being active in the local Boys and Girls Club, soccer clinics and Habitat for Humanity. Durbin served as team captain for two seasons, and was a Presidential Scholarship Recipient and finalist for an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. She was also a member of the Alpha Lambda Honor Society, has been a summer camp counselor with the YMCA and organized Finely Road school's annual field day the past two years.
