INDIANAPOLIS (6/27/2017) -- After finishing one of the greatest careers in Titan history, 2017 University of Detroit Mercy graduate
Sarah Thompson was nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year award (#NCAAWOTY).
The NCAA Woman of the Year program honors the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service and leadership of graduating female college athletes from all three divisions. To be eligible, a nominee must have competed and earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport, must have completed eligibility in her primary sport, and must have earned her undergraduate degree.Â
A record total of 544 women were nominated this year based on the four pillars of the Woman of the Year award: academics, athletics, service and leadership.
Thompson concluded her terrific collegiate golf career this past season as she was named the Co-Horizon League Player of the Year and First Team All-Horizon League, just the second player in school history to earn the HL Player of the Year honor and the fourth to be selected All-Conference at least three times.
As a senior, she led the team and was third in the Horizon League with a career-best 77.0 average, fourth in school history. She also led the team in all nine tournaments she played in and posted eight top 20-finishes, five top-10 efforts and one victory.
She won her second career event shooting carding a career-low 220 (76-73-71) at the NKU Fall Classic.
She ended her career second in school history with a 77.77 average in 83 rounds of golf, including three of the six best single season averages with a 77.0 as a senior for fourth, 78.4 as a sophomore for fifth and 79.1 as a junior for sixth.
Thompson was the Detroit Mercy Co-President's Award winner at the annual athletic banquet, presented to the most outstanding male and female seniors who best typify the image of the complete student-athlete. She also earned the Academic Excellence Award, achieved by recording at least a 3.0 GPA for every semester that they have participated in college athletics, and was a four-year member of the Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll and three-time member of the Horizon League Fall and Spring Academic Honor Roll.Â
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