Lloyd, Ramirez Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year
7/14/2020 10:26:00 AM | General, Softball, Women's Water Polo
RIVERSIDE -- A pair of California Baptist University female student-athletes, softball's Caitlyn Lloyd and water polo's Grace Ramirez, were both nominated for one of the NCAA's top individual awards on Tuesday as the two Lancers were named to the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year nominee list.
Rooted in Title IX, the NCAA Woman of the Year Award was established in 1991 to recognize graduating female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
The nominees represent all three NCAA divisions, including 259 nominees from Division I, 126 from Division II and 220 from Division III. Nominees competed in 24 sports, with multisport student-athletes accounting for 128 of the nominees.
Conference offices will select up to two nominees each from their pool of member school nominees. All nominees who compete in a sport not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be considered by a selection committee. Then, the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division.
This is the first time in CBU's NCAA era that a pair of athletes have been nominated for the honor, joining the four previous nominees that came before them: Mary Hanson (2015), Cassidy Mihalko (2017), Lauren Hackett (2018) and Erica Wang (2019). Of those four previous nominees, Hanson and Hackett advanced to the next level of nominations, the Top 30.
Lloyd, a four-year starter on the diamond, finished her Lancer career as one of the best to ever do it in the blue and gold. Her 12 career triples rank her third all-time in the program's history, while she also finishes top-10 in slugging percentage (.658), on-base percentage (.452) and home runs (29). She collected multiple individual awards for her performances athletically and academically at the conference and national levels.
Ramirez, a three-year starter in the cage for CBU, has a unique distinction of being named as an All-American in both Division II (first team, 2018) and Division I (honorable mention, 2020). In 2020's abbreviated season, she led the entire Golden Coast Conference with 126 saves over the course of 14 games. She also led the league's starting goalies in save percentage (59.8) and goals-against average (7.61). She was twice named the GCC Player of the Week in 2020, with a 10-4 record on the year. The Lancers went 13-4 and finished the season ranked 25th in the NCAA.
Conference offices will select up to two nominees each from their pool of member school nominees. All nominees who compete in a sport not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be considered by a selection committee. Then, the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division.
Rooted in Title IX, the NCAA Woman of the Year Award was established in 1991 to recognize graduating female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
The nominees represent all three NCAA divisions, including 259 nominees from Division I, 126 from Division II and 220 from Division III. Nominees competed in 24 sports, with multisport student-athletes accounting for 128 of the nominees.
Conference offices will select up to two nominees each from their pool of member school nominees. All nominees who compete in a sport not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be considered by a selection committee. Then, the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division.
This is the first time in CBU's NCAA era that a pair of athletes have been nominated for the honor, joining the four previous nominees that came before them: Mary Hanson (2015), Cassidy Mihalko (2017), Lauren Hackett (2018) and Erica Wang (2019). Of those four previous nominees, Hanson and Hackett advanced to the next level of nominations, the Top 30.
Lloyd, a four-year starter on the diamond, finished her Lancer career as one of the best to ever do it in the blue and gold. Her 12 career triples rank her third all-time in the program's history, while she also finishes top-10 in slugging percentage (.658), on-base percentage (.452) and home runs (29). She collected multiple individual awards for her performances athletically and academically at the conference and national levels.
Ramirez, a three-year starter in the cage for CBU, has a unique distinction of being named as an All-American in both Division II (first team, 2018) and Division I (honorable mention, 2020). In 2020's abbreviated season, she led the entire Golden Coast Conference with 126 saves over the course of 14 games. She also led the league's starting goalies in save percentage (59.8) and goals-against average (7.61). She was twice named the GCC Player of the Week in 2020, with a 10-4 record on the year. The Lancers went 13-4 and finished the season ranked 25th in the NCAA.
Conference offices will select up to two nominees each from their pool of member school nominees. All nominees who compete in a sport not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be considered by a selection committee. Then, the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division.
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