Asia Durr Named NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee
June 26, 2019 | Women's Basketball
A record 585 female college athletes have been nominated by NCAA member schools for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year award.
Durr is one of a record 585 female college athletes that have been nominated by NCAA member schools for the award.
She was named Dawn Staley Award winner and Ann Meyers Drysdale Award winner, along with being named a WBCA, Associated Press, Wooden Award, USBWA and Senior CLASS Award All-American.
She concluded her career ranked second in program history with 2,485 points and 374 made 3-pointers. She ranks first all-time in the Atlantic Coast Conference in made 3-pointers and fifth in points.
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The two-time ACC Player of the Year finished her senior season averaging 21.2 points per game, which marks the fourth highest scoring average in Louisville history.
She was selected second overall by the New York Liberty in the 2019Â WNBA Draft and is averaging 12.0 points through the first nine games of her WNBA career.
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award recognizes graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
The NCAA encourages member schools to honor their top graduating female student-athletes each year by submitting their names for consideration for the Woman of the Year award.
The nominees competed in 23 different sports across all three NCAA divisions, including 262 nominees from Division I, 131 from Division II and 192 from Division III. Multisport student-athletes account for 144 of the nominees.
Next, conferences will select up to two nominees each from the pool of 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.
The selection committee will determine the top three honorees in each division from the Top 30 and announce the nine finalists in September. From those nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then will choose the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year.
The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year will be named at the annual award ceremony Oct. 20 in Indianapolis.
Visit NCAA.org for the full list of nominees.
