Marsha Harris

{{short description|American basketball player}}

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Marsha Harris was the female winner of the 1998 Walter Byers Award, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's highest academic honor, in recognition of being the nation's top female scholar-athlete.{{cite web|url=http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/scholarships/byers/winner_list |title=Previous Walter Byers Scholars |accessdate=January 26, 2008 |publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705151433/http://www1.ncaa.org/membership/scholarships/byers/winner_list |archivedate=July 5, 2008 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.org/releases/awards/1998040801aw.htm |title=GRAY, HARRIS RECEIVE BYERS SCHOLARSHIPS |accessdate=January 26, 2008 |publisher=The National Collegiate Athletic Association |date=April 8, 1998 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050209214509/http://www.ncaa.org/releases/awards/1998040801aw.htm |archivedate=February 9, 2005 }} She was a two-time Kodak Division III All-American who scored the winning basket for the New York University Violets women's basketball team in the 1997 NCAA Division III National Championship game resulting in a 72–70 victory over University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. As of 2005 she was the University Athletic Association's all-time leading scorer and she was in her third year as a surgical resident at the New York University School of Medicine.{{cite web|url=http://www.nyu.edu/athletics/hof/2005inductees.html|title=New York University Athletics Hall of Fame: 2004 and 2005 Inductees|publisher=nyu.edu}}