Women's Water Polo | 7/23/2015 3:42:00 PM

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Senior center Lara Dendy Young (Cape Town, South Africa), of the Hartwick water polo team, is among a record 147 NCAA female student-athletes who have been named 2015 Woman of the Year honorees by conferences and independent schools.
           
The honorees, selected from a record 480 school nominees, represent college athletes from 18 different sports spanning all three NCAA divisions. Of those recognized, 57 honorees competed in Division I, 39 competed in Division II and 51 competed in Division III.
           
Dendy Young graduated in May with a cumulative grade point average of 3.61. She majored in Business Administration with a minor in Graphic Communications while at 'Wick.
           
This past season, Dendy Young received CWPA Honorable Mention and was an ACWPC All-Academic award winner. She played in 19 matches making 18 starting appearances, scoring 28 goals and delivered 12 assists for 40 points. She added 34 steals, 18 drawn kick-outs, and two 5-meter drawn kick-outs.  
           
The Woman of the Year selection committee will next select the top 10 honorees in each division. These top 30 honorees will be announced in early September.  The selection committee will then choose and announce the top nine finalists (three from each division) at the end of September. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will vote from amongst those nine finalists to determine the 2015 Woman of the Year.
           
The top 30 honorees will be honored and the 2015 NCAA Woman of the Year will be named at the annual ceremony in Indianapolis on Oct. 18.
           
Now in its 25^th year, the NCAA Woman of the Year award recognizes graduating female student-athletes for excellence in academics, athletics, community service and leadership.