The polls are closed and the results are in. A mind-boggling 74,824 votes (that’s like ten times the capacity of Welsh-Ryan Arena and over one-and-a-half Ryan Fields) were cast in the final showdown between field hockey’s Gretchen Scheuermann and tennis’ Katrina Adams. It was a spectacle rivaling the likes of the Super Bowl or, more accurately, the Daily Northwestern-Inside NU quarterly basketball game, in terms of tension and drama.
The two went back and forth for much of the voting period, stretching from Thursday to Monday night, but Scheuermann’s strong weekend surge was enough to hold Adams off to secure the title.