University of Hawai'i women's basketball player Raylene Howard and football player Dan Robinson were named the 2000 Jack Bonham Award winners in recognition for their outstanding performances on and off the playing field.
The announcement was made today at the annual Scholar-Athlete Breakfast at the Stan Sheriff Center. Both record-setting players helped their respective teams to winning seasons while compiling outstanding grade point averages and performing public service tasks.
Robinson, who recently signed a free-agent contract with the Baltimore Ravens of the NFL, graduated in December with a 3.80 GPA in pre-medicine. The second-team all-WAC performer became Hawai'i's all-time leading passer amassing 6,038 yards in 25 games. He set 30 school passing records and nine school records for total offense. Away from the gridiron, Robinson was a Sunday school teacher, spoke at both the Maui and Manoa Eagle Scout Recognition dinners, took young men on scout camp-outs and helped them set goals for themselves. He also spoke at three elementary schools and gave motivational speeches at three others as part of the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program.
Howard, who hails from Australia, is a two-time WAC Player of the Year and all-WAC first-team selection. The four-year letterwinner currently possesses a 3.45 GPA in physical education and is scheduled to graduate in December 2000. She finishes her career as the Wahine's all-time leader in field goal percentage and is in the top five in ten categories. In the community, Howard served as a volunteer with the Honolulu Boys and Girls Club and the Special Olympics. She also spoke at various schools on academics, drugs, and athletics and health.
Considered the most prestigious award in the University of Hawai'i athletics, the Bonham Award is named for the late assistant athletics director who was killed in 1974 in a plane crash in America Samoa. Bonham was returning to the islands from New Zealand where he was on a recruiting trip at the British Commonwealth Games.
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