Danielle Shannon received the Charger Award for this year's Outstanding Female Athlete. The award is given to a female who has extraordinary athletic ability and has contributed the most to her team, the College and the world of sport. The award is a token of hard work, good judgment, understanding and determination.
Danielle has been honored with this award for an unprecedented third consecutive year.
In her senior year, Danielle accomplished something that she has never achieved; standing atop the country as the Individual Combined National Champion. Prior to competing at the national state, Danielle continued her dominance on the hill at the Eastern Collegiate Ski Conference (ECSC) Regional Championships. She earned three First Team Al-Conference awards for placing second in the Giant Slalom, third in the Slalom, and second in the overall combined. Her performance three weeks later at the United States Collegiate Ski & Snowboard Association (USCSA) National Championships was something to marvel at and was an incredible way to end her outstanding collegiate career. Placing 2nd in both the Giant Slalom event and the Slalom event, not only gave Danielle the gold medal in the overall, but qualified her to compete in the U.S. Alpine National Championships where the top skiers in the country compete.
Danielle has finished her collegiate career with a perfect 12 counts of All-American, she is a four-time Academic All-American, three- time MVP of the women's ski team, has qualified for U.S. Alpine Championships three times, was the 2009 USCSA GS National Champion, and the 2011 Individual Combined National Champion. With her accomplishments from this year and the previous three, she has ended her student-athlete career at Colby-Sawyer as undoubtedly the most successful skier in history.
