CHAPEL HILL – Kristen Brown, the Atlantic Coast Conference’s all-time softball home run leader, Marcus Paige, Carolina’s all-time leader in three-point field goals, and Emily Wold, a three-time first-team All-America in field hockey, are the 2016 recipients of the Patterson Medal, the most prestigious athletic award given at the University of North Carolina.
Brown, a shortstop from Levittown, N.Y., is the first softball player to win a Patterson Medal since the award was established in 1924.
Paige, a guard from Marion, Iowa, is the 28th men’s basketball player to receive the Patterson Medal and the fifth in the last 25 years with Antawn Jamison (1998), Brendan Haywood (2001), Tyler Hansbrough (2009) and Tyler Zeller (2012).