At the 2003 NCAA Convention in January, six former student-athletes will be recognized for their outstanding collegiate and professional achievements, including NYU women's basketball alum Dr. Marsha Harris.
The Silver Anniversary Award recipients are recognized on the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of their college athletics careers. The awardees were nominated by administrators at their undergraduate school and are selected by a panel of former student-athletes and representatives from NCAA member schools and conferences.
Two-time first-team Women's Basketball Coaches Association All-American Marsha Harris led New York University to its first national title at the 1997 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championship, where she scored the game-winning basket with 1.5 seconds remaining. Harris was a two-time University Athletic Association Player of the Year and was a four-time All-UAA honoree. She holds school records for the most career points (2,140) and field goals made (779) and tied the program record for most points in a single game (41). She was inducted into the New York University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2004.
In 1998, Harris received the NCAA Walter Byers Graduate Scholarship. She attended New York University's Grossman School of Medicine and completed her general surgery residency there. Harris became a colorectal surgeon after completing a fellowship at the Colon and Rectal Clinic of Orlando. A published researcher, Harris is a board-certified surgeon specializing in minimally invasive and robotic surgery for colon and rectal cancer, diverticulitis, colon motility disorders, anorectal diseases, pilonidal diseases and pelvic floor dysfunction.
She is the owner of Park Avenue Colon and Rectal Surgery in New York, and she also serves as a clinical assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Grossman school. The 1998 New York University commencement speaker was voted Castle Connolly Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area from 2018-2022 and New York Magazine Top Doctors in 2021 and 2022. A member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons, she has received the Vitals Compassionate Doctor Award and Vitals Patient Choice Award and was named to the Healthgrades Honor Roll.
The 2023 additional recipients are Phil Dawson, Allison Feaster, Lenny Krayzelburg, Peyton Manning and Kate Markgraf. The awardees will be celebrated at the NCAA Honors Celebration on Jan. 11 in San Antonio.