NCAA Woman of the Year Award
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The NCAA Woman of the Year Award was created to honor a senior female student-athlete who has distinguished herself throughout her collegiate career in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership. Each year, ten finalists are selected from a larger pool of candidates. The Award has been given by the National Collegiate Athletic Association since 1991.

Winners

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  • 1991 – Mary Beth Riley, Canisius College
    Canisius College
    Canisius College is a private Roman Catholic college in Buffalo, New York, United States. The college was founded in 1870 by members of the Society of Jesus from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius. The college is one of 28 institutions in the Association of Jesuit Colleges and...

  • 1992 – Catherine Byrne
    Catherine Byrne
    Catherine Byrne is an Irish Fine Gael politician. She has been a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South Central constituency since May 2007. She stood unsuccessfully as a candidate at the 2002 general election, she was elected on her next attempt at the 2007 general election...

    , University of Tennessee
  • 1993 – Nnenna Lynch
    Nnenna Lynch
    Nnenna Lynch is a retired middle distance and long distance runner from the United States. She is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1997 Summer Universiade in Catania, Italy in the women's 5,000 metres event, when she defeated Canada's Lori Durward and Sarah Howell .Currently lives in...

    , Villanova University
  • 1994 – Tanya Jones, University of Arizona
    Arizona Wildcats
    -Athletic program:The University of Arizona participates in the NCAA's Division I-A in the Pacific-12 Conference Arizona participates in the conference's South Division, along with Arizona State, Colorado, UCLA, USC, and Utah...

  • 1995 – Rebecca Lobo
    Rebecca Lobo
    Rebecca Rose Lobo-Rushin is an American television basketball analyst and a former player in the professional Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 to 2003...

    , University of Connecticut
  • 1996 – Billie Winsett-Fletcher, University of Nebraska
    Nebraska Cornhuskers
    The Nebraska Cornhuskers is the name given to several sports teams of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. The university is a member of the Big Ten Conference...

  • 1997 – Lisa Coole
    Lisa Coole
    Lisa Ann Coole was a 1997 graduate of the University of Georgia who was named the NCAA Woman of the Year Award for 1997 and was also awarded the Today's Top VIII Award as a member of the Class of 1998...

    , University of Georgia
  • 1998 – Peggy Boutilier, University of Virginia
    Virginia Cavaliers
    The Virginia Cavaliers, also known as Wahoos or Hoos, are the athletic teams officially representing the University of Virginia in college sports. The Cavaliers compete in 25 NCAA Division I varsity sports and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference...

  • 1999 – Jamila Demby, University of California, Davis
    University of California, Davis
    The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

  • 2000 – Kristy Kowal
    Kristy Kowal
    Kristina Ann Kowal is a swimmer from the United States, who won the silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney....

    , University of Georgia
  • 2001 – Kimberly A. Black
    Kim Black
    Kimberly A. Black is an American swimmer from Syracuse, New York.Black began her collegiate career at the University of Southern California, where she competed alongside future fellow Olympians such as Lindsay Benko, before transferring to the University of Georgia in 1999...

    , University of Georgia
  • 2002 – Tanisha Silas, University of California, Davis
    University of California, Davis
    The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

  • 2003 – Ashley Jo Rowatt Karpinos, Kenyon College
    Kenyon College
    Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio...



  • 2004 – Kelly Albin, University of California, Davis
    University of California, Davis
    The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

  • 2005 – Lauryn McCalley, University of Tennessee
    Tennessee Volunteers
    The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the National Collegiate Athletic Association college sports teams at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mike Hamilton is the most recent Men's Athletic Director, but resigned on June 7, 2011, and Joan Cronan is the current Women's...

  • 2006 – Annie Bersagel, Wake Forest University
  • 2007 – Whitney Myers
    Whitney Myers
    Whitney Myers is an American swimmer. She swims for the FAST Swim Team in Fullerton, CA. She also swam for the University of Arizona...

    , University of Arizona
  • 2008 – Nicky Anosike
    Nicky Anosike
    Nkolika "Nicky" Nonyelum Anosike is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Washington Mystics.-Personal:...

    , University of Tennessee
  • 2009 – Lacey Nymeyer
    Lacey Nymeyer
    Lacey Pearl Nymeyer is an Olympic swimmer from the United States.-Personal:Nymeyer is a Tucson native who graduated in 2004 from Mountain View High School . She is also a graduate of the University of Arizona where she majored in physical education. Away from her own training, Nymeyer leads swim...

    , University of Arizona
  • 2010 – Justine Schluntz, University of Arizona
    Arizona Wildcats
    -Athletic program:The University of Arizona participates in the NCAA's Division I-A in the Pacific-12 Conference Arizona participates in the conference's South Division, along with Arizona State, Colorado, UCLA, USC, and Utah...



See also

  • NCAA Sportsmanship Award
    NCAA Sportsmanship Award
    The NCAA Sportsmanship Award is given each year to one man and one woman in National Collegiate Athletics Association sports who have demonstrated one or more of the ideals of sportsmanship, including fairness, civility, honesty, unselfishness, respect and responsibility...

     (student-athletes who have demonstrated one or more of the ideals of sportsmanship)
  • Today's Top VIII Award
    Today's Top VIII Award
    The Today's Top VIII Award is given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to honor eight outstanding senior student-athletes of the preceding calendar year. From 1973 through 1985, this award was known as the Today's Top V Award or the Top Five Award and was given to honor five...

     (NCAA) (outstanding senior student-athletes)
  • Walter Byers Scholarship
    Walter Byers Scholarship
    The Walter Byers Scholar program is a scholarship program that recognizes the top male and female scholar-athlete in NCAA sports and that is awarded annually by the National Collegiate Athletic Association . It is considered to be the NCAA's highest academic award...

     (NCAA) (top male and female scholar-athletes)
  • Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA)
    Silver Anniversary Awards (NCAA)
    The Silver Anniversary Awards are given each year by the American National Collegiate Athletic Association to recognize six distinguished former student-athletes on their 25th anniversary as college graduates. The Silver Anniversary Awards were first given in 1973, when five distinguished former...

     (former student-athletes)
  • Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
    Lowe's Senior CLASS Award
    The Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award is an annual college athletic award in the NCAA Division I. Qualified competitors must be seniors who have remained within their NCAA Division I college for a four-year commitment and achieved excellence in one of nine sports.....

  • Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award
    Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award
    The Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award has been presented annually since 2002 to the female sportsperson, irrespective of university represented or sport contested, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year of those contesting collegiate sport in the United States through the National...

  • Best Male College Athlete ESPY Award
    Best Male College Athlete ESPY Award
    The Best Male College Athlete ESPY Award has been presented annually since 2002 to the male sportsperson, irrespective of university represented or sport contested, adjudged to be the best in a given calendar year of those contesting collegiate sport in the United States through the National...

  • Athlete of the Year
    Athlete of the Year
    Athlete of the Year is an award given by various sports organizations for the athlete whom they have determined to be deserving of such recognition....

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