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For the Second Year in a Row, Honda Award Goes to Matson

For the second year in a row, UNC's Erin Matson is the winner of the Honda Sport Award for Field Hockey.

A junior forward from Chadds Ford, Pa., Matson is the fifth Tar Heel on the seventh occasion to be honored with the Honda Award as the nation's top field hockey player. The recognition comes following a season in which UNC finished 19-1 and won its third consecutive NCAA title and the eighth in program history.

Matson the second UNC player to win the Honda Award twice and she gives the Tar Heels a three-year streak of recipients.