Olaeta Tabbed As WAC Co-Representative For NCAA Woman of the Year
7/12/2022 12:01:00 PM | Women's Basketball
RIVERSIDE – The Western Athletic Conference announced its nominees for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Award and named California Baptist University basketball's Ane Olaeta as one of the conference's two honorees. Olaeta is nominated alongside Gianna Nicoletti, a first team all-conference softball player from Grand Canyon University.
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award is rooted in Title IX and recognizes graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their NCAA eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
The Woman of the Year Selection Committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will now choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division — from the conference-level nominees. From there, the selection committee will narrow the pool to three finalists from each division. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will select the 2021 Woman of the Year from the nine finalists.
The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated at the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year ceremony, which will be held at the NCAA Convention in January.
Two Lancers, Mary Hanson (2015) and Lauren Hackett (2018), have been named Top 30 Woman of the Year candidates over the last seven years. Olaeta is the only Lancer to earn nomination twice.
Olaeta's inclusion on this list adds another achievement to her long list of incredible accomplishments during her time as a Lancer. Olaeta has a lengthy list of career awards, including 2022 WAC All-Tournament Team, two-time All-WAC Second Team, two-time All-WAC First Team, the 2020-21 Joe Kearney Award winner, 2020-21 WAC Player of the Year and 2021-22 WAC Defensive Player of the Year.
Statistically, she ended her career as CBU's all-time assist leader with 874 dimes, second all-time in assists per game at 5.99. She also used a single-season career-high 228 assists in 2021-22 to claim multiple WAC assist titles including all games career assists (754), WAC games career assists (415), all games single-season assists (228), and single-game assists (17).
Academically, Olaeta completed her undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts with a 3.93 grade-point average. She earned Magna Cum Laude honors and received CBU's Outstanding International Student Award during her May 2021 undergraduate commencement ceremonies. Olaeta currently holds a 4.0 GPA in her graduate school classes where she is studying International Education, on track to graduate this August.
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award is rooted in Title IX and recognizes graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their NCAA eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
The Woman of the Year Selection Committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will now choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division — from the conference-level nominees. From there, the selection committee will narrow the pool to three finalists from each division. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will select the 2021 Woman of the Year from the nine finalists.
The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated at the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year ceremony, which will be held at the NCAA Convention in January.
Two Lancers, Mary Hanson (2015) and Lauren Hackett (2018), have been named Top 30 Woman of the Year candidates over the last seven years. Olaeta is the only Lancer to earn nomination twice.
Olaeta's inclusion on this list adds another achievement to her long list of incredible accomplishments during her time as a Lancer. Olaeta has a lengthy list of career awards, including 2022 WAC All-Tournament Team, two-time All-WAC Second Team, two-time All-WAC First Team, the 2020-21 Joe Kearney Award winner, 2020-21 WAC Player of the Year and 2021-22 WAC Defensive Player of the Year.
Statistically, she ended her career as CBU's all-time assist leader with 874 dimes, second all-time in assists per game at 5.99. She also used a single-season career-high 228 assists in 2021-22 to claim multiple WAC assist titles including all games career assists (754), WAC games career assists (415), all games single-season assists (228), and single-game assists (17).
Academically, Olaeta completed her undergraduate degree in Liberal Arts with a 3.93 grade-point average. She earned Magna Cum Laude honors and received CBU's Outstanding International Student Award during her May 2021 undergraduate commencement ceremonies. Olaeta currently holds a 4.0 GPA in her graduate school classes where she is studying International Education, on track to graduate this August.
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She has truly mastered the game, from offensive wizardry to defensive dominance. Ane Olaeta is the @WACsports Defensive Player of the Year‼️#LanceUp⚔️ pic.twitter.com/a66tQvzL5t— California Baptist Women's Basketball (@CBUwbb) March 7, 2022
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