14 Swimmers and Divers Named Conference Nominees for 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year Award

The NCAA has announced the 145 female student-athletes who are their conference’s nominee for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Fourteen swimmers and divers have been named. That’s an impressive five more than the nine swimmers and divers named Conference nominees last year.

View full list of swimmers and divers, their school, and their conference below:

Name	School	Conference	Division
Anika Apostalon	University of Southern California	Pac-12	I
Chantal Van Landeghem	University of Georgia	Southeastern Conference	I
Danielle Galyer	University of Kentucky	Southeastern Conference	I
Blaise Wittenauer-Lee	Seattle University	Western Athletic Conference	I
Aerika Wieser	Urbana University	Mountain East Conference	II
Caroline Conboy	Hobart and William Smith Colleges	Libery League	III
Anna Corley	University of Mary Washington	Capital Athletic Conference	III
Eliana Crawford	Kenyon College	North Coast Athletic Conference	III
Jaquelyn Creitz	Washington College (Maryland)	Centennial Conference	III
Naomi Gaggi	College of Staten Island	City University of New York Athletic Conference	III
Margaret Olock	Cedar Crest College	North Eastern Athletic Conference	III
Meg Stanley	Illinois Wesleyan University	College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin	III
Sara Bey	State University College at Old Westbury	Skyline Conference	III
Valerie Urban	Connecticut College	New England Small College Athletic Conference	III

MIT swimmer Margaret Guo was named the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year. Guo was then featured on the cover of the February 2017 issue of Swimming World magazine.

Read the full press release from the NCAA here:

From a program-record pool of 543 school nominees, 145 female student-athletes have been nominated by conferences and an independent selection committee for consideration for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

The nominees represent college athletes from 16 different sports spanning all three NCAA divisions. Of those recognized, 58 nominees competed in Division I, 34 in Division II and 53 in Division III.

For the first time, nominees competing in a sport not sponsored by their school’s core conference were placed in a separate pool to be considered by a selection committee. Up to two independent nominees could be selected to move forward in the process with the conference nominees.

In early September, the Woman of the Year selection committee will name the Top 30 honorees, which include 10 women from each division. At the end of September, the selection committee will select and announce nine finalists, with three from each division. The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics will select the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year from those finalists.

The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year will be named at the annual banquet Oct. 22 in Indianapolis.

The NCAA Woman of the Year program has recognized graduating female student-athletes for excellence in academics, athletics, community service and leadership since its inception in 1991.

View the full list here.

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Thomas A. Small

6 years ago

Congratulations best of luck