North Carolina senior Cindy Parlow has won the 1998 Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year award. Parlow joins former Tar Heel star Mia Hamm as the only two-time winners of the award since its inception in 1991. She edged Florida’s Danielle Fotopoulos in the overall voting, 375 points to 352, although Fotopoulos received two more first-place votes (79 to 77). Here are the results of the voting, which was done by collegiate coaches with each first-place vote worth three points, each second-place vote worth two points and each third-place vote worth one point:
| Name | School | Points (First-Place Votes) |
| Cindy Parlow | North Carolina | 375 (77) |
| Danielle Fotopoulos | Florida | 352 (79) |
| Tiffany Roberts | North Carolina | 101 (9) |
| Emily Stauffer | Harvard | 80 (11) |
| Mandy Clemens | Santa Clara | 71 (17) |
| Sara Burkett | Clemson | 54 (5) |
| Jen Grubb | Notre Dame | 51 (2) |
| Jennifer Tietjen | Connecticut | 46 (3) |
| Michelle French | Portland | 43 (4) |
| Lorrie Fair | North Carolina | 36 (3) |