DBU's Leah Lewis has been nominated for this year's NCAA Woman of the Year Award.  Lewis, a senior from College Station, Texas, is one of 129 female college athletes nominated at the NCAA Division II level. 

Lewis starred in both Cross Country and Track & Field during her four-year career at DBU, earning First Team All-Conference honors all four seasons in Cross Country, while also being named the Lone Star Conference Academic Runner of the Year as a senior.  Lewis also helped guide DBU to a pair of trips to the NCAA Cross County National Championships in 2017 and 2018, as well as three Heartland Conference titles.  In Track & Field, Lewis reached the NCAA National Championships in the 10,000 meter run where she finished in 15th place.

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.

Conference offices will select up to two nominees each from their pool of member school nominees. All nominees who compete in a sport not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be considered by a selection committee. 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.

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