CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College dual-sport star Kenzie Kent has been voted the top female athlete in the Atlantic Coast Conference, winning the 27th Mary Garber Award on Friday. The Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association (ACSMA) selected Kent – a junior who stars for both the women's hockey and lacrosse teams at BC – as the conference's top female athlete for the 2016-17 season.
She joins Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson, who won the 64th Anthony J. McKevlin Award as the conference's top male athlete this past year.
Kent is Boston College's first winner of the Garber Award, and just the second student-athlete to be tabbed the ACC's athlete of the year.