Champion honored

Women's basketball coach Christa Champion was named the New England Women's 8 Conference Coach of the Year and was a finalist for Converse National Division III Coach of the Year.

Under her leadership, the Engineers finished 23-6 to capture the NEW 8 championship and advance to the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament. In her first two years at WPI, Champion's team is 41-16 and earned two consecutive postseason bids.

Champion is a graduate of Brown University, where she played on two Ivy League championship teams and was an Academic All-American. Before coming to WPI in 1994 she coached at the University of New Haven for three seasons.