For Immediate Release
Thursday, July 23, 2015
NCAA WOTY


Indianapolis - A record 147 NCAA female-student-athletes have been named 2015 Woman of the Year honorees by conferences and independent schools. Representing the NSIC in 2015 is Amelia Maher, senior track & field athlete from the University of Minnesota Duluth.

A senior from Sauk Centre, Minn., Maher graduated this past May with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and did so with a cumulative grade point average of 3.92. She was the recipient of UMD's Top Female Scholar-Athlete Award, earned the NSIC Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award and was UMD's Honor Student-Athlete for the NSIC. In addition to qualifying for the College of Liberal Arts Dean's List all eight of her semesters at UMD, the 2015 Bulldog team captain qualified for the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team in both 2013-14 and 2014-15 and was a three-time All-NSIC Academic Team honoree.

The NCAA Woman of the Year honorees, selected from the record 480 school nominees, represent college athletes from 18 different sports spanning all three NCAA divisions. Of those recognized, 57 honorees competed in Division I, 39 competed in Division II and 51 competed in Division III.

The Woman of the Year selection committee will next select the top 10 honorees in each division. These top 30 honorees will be announced in early September. The selection committee will then choose and announce the top nine finalists (three from each division) at the end of September. The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics will vote from amongst those nine finalists to determine the 2015 Woman of the Year.

The top 30 honorees will be honored and the 2015 NCAA Woman of the Year will be named at the annual ceremony in Indianapolis on Oct. 18.

Now in its 25^th year, the NCAA Woman of the Year award recognizes graduating female student-athletes for excellence in academics, athletics, community service and leadership.