Fowler of SHC nominated for NCAA Woman of Year

By HBCU DIGITAL
Updated: July 15, 2020

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Senior softball catcher Aly Fowler of Spring Hill College (SHC) has been named nominated for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

A Biology/Pre-Health major from Dripping Springs, Texas, Fowler was hitting .348 in her career with 24 runs scored, 10 doubles, a triple, and 46 RBI in 98 games played before the Covid-19 Pandemic shutdown of NCAA sports in March. Splitting time between catcher and first base, Fowler fields at a .970 pace with 258 career putouts and 38 assists.

A member of the 2019 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) All-Conference and All-Tournament 1^st teams, Fowler previously was a member of the Academic All-District 5 team in 2019 and 2020 as well as the Academic All-America 2^nd team in 2019. She is also a three-time member of the SIAC Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll and a two-time member of the SIAC Softball All-Academic Team.

Fowler was the 2019-2020 SHC Senior Female Student Athlete of the Year as well as the Female Co-Academic Student Athlete of the Year, holding a perfect 4.0 GPA.

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 multi-sport student-athletes accounting for 128 of the nominees.

Conference offices will select up to two nominees each from their pool of member school nominees. 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.

From the Top 30, the Woman of the Year selection committee will determine the top three honorees in each division and announce nine finalists. The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics then will choose the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year, who will be named this fall.