PHILADELPHIA -- Two months after the conclusion of the most celebrated season in the program history, the University of Pennsylvania women basketball team has been named one of the 2001 winners of the Alice Paul Awards by the Association of Women Faculty and Administrators at Penn. The team members were honored for their "accomplishments as individuals, as a team and as a representation of the significant contributions Penn women students make to the campus on behalf of women."

The Alice Paul Awards are named for Dr. Alice Paul, a humanitarian who was a suffragist leader, founder of the National Women's Party and author of the Equal Rights Amendment. The awards are presented to undergraduate or graduate women in recognition of outstanding service to women and are bestowed in particular to honor those who made contributions to women in the Penn community.

The 2000-2001 Quakers turned in the most successful season in program history, capturing the team first-ever Ivy League championship while becoming only the second team in Ivy League history to go undefeated during the regular season since the league expanded to a 14-game schedule in 1982-83.