The 2000 Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award honoree was announced at the ACF National Championship on Saturday. The second recipient of this prestigious annual award is Dr. Carol Guthrie. The Carper Award: History The Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award was established in 1999 to honor individuals "for meritorious services in sustaining and enriching collegiate academic competitions". The award is presented annually to a member of the Quizbowl community who exhibits the kind of dedication to and long-term support of academic competitions as exemplified by career of Dr. Carper. The first honoree was the namesake of the award, Dr. N. Gordon Carper of Berry College. The Carper Award: Selection Process The Carper Award, while sponsored by the Academic Competition Federation (ACF), is not limited to individuals with ACF affiliations. Nominations for the award are solicited from a group of academic competition veterans, which are then narrowed to a short list. Ballots are then distributed to this group that votes to determine the ultimate honoree. The 2000 Carper Award nominees are: Dr. Carol Guthrie Eric Hillemann Dr. Robert Meredith Gaius Stern Dr. Don Windham 2000 Carper Award Honoree: Dr. Carol Guthrie Carol began her collegiate academic competition player career while a student at Berry College in Rome, GA. There it was her privilege to be coached by Dr. Gordon Carper, the namesake of the award with which she is now being honored. As a student, Carol distinguished herself as an excellent player and great competitor-both as an undergraduate at Berry, and later in graduate school at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. As a woman, Carol was a pioneer in academic competition, setting an example and standard for all women who would follow her. Finally, Carol's life would be forever changed through her academic competition association, because in a teammate she found her husband and life partner, fellow Carper nominee, Don Windham. After ending her playing days at the University of Tennessee, Carol made a natural transition to coaching; she built a team that would remain a national power in the late 1980s and early 1990s during her tenure as coach. Even as she was the recipient of the coaching legacy of Dr. Carper, several members of Carol's teams moved on to the coaching ranks themselves. Among those are Charlie Steinhice, Ben Lea, Robert Trent, and Dr. Stephen Taylor. The crowning achievement of Carol's coaching career was the inaugural ACF National Championship in 1991. Carol's greatest contributions, however, undoubtedly lie in her organizational work. For several years she hosted one of the premier invitational tournaments in the nation at the University of Tennessee. With Don Windham she wrote the All-American Invitationals-ur-ACF National Championships-in 1988 and 1989, hosting the latter at the University of Tennessee. Carol instituted the summertime tradition of masters' tournaments, hosting the Tennessee Masters from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s and she edited and directed most of the MLK tournaments held at Georgia Tech. Perhaps her most lasting contribution in this arena was her co-founding of ACF in 1990. Her leadership and dedication were critical in insuring its institutional success. Her achievements include tournament directing ACF NCTs at the University of Tennessee in 1991, 1995, and 1996, and either being chief editor or a contributing editor in virtually every ACF NCT since its inception. Dr. Carol Guthrie has for over two decades been a salient figure in the Quizbowl community. We owe her a great debt of appreciation for all the dedication, leadership, and direction that she has given to the community through the years. For these qualities and achievements ACF and the Carper Award Committee honor her today with the prestigious Dr. N. Gordon Carper Lifetime Achievement Award.
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