NCAA schools announce nominees for 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year

Record 605 college athletes nominated

Albany, NY–The Sage Colleges' graduate women's basketball performer Megan Flynn (Hoosick Falls, NY/Hoosick Falls Central) has added an additional honor to her athletic career as she was saluted as the institution's NCAA Woman of the Year honoree.

NCAA member schools have nominated a record 605 female college athletes for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

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 multisport student-athletes accounting for 128 of the nominees.

Member schools are encouraged to honor their top graduating female college athletes each year by submitting their names for consideration for the Woman of the Year Award. Schools can recognize two nominees if at least one is a woman of color or international student-athlete.

Flynn, who was also chosen as the 2019-2020 Female Athlete of the Year at Sage was also saluted as the female recipient of the Dean Sharon Robinson Senior Male and Female Scholar-Athletes of the Year, which is given to the senior student-athlete with the highest overall grade point average. Also selected as one of the honorees in the inaugural Capital District Sports Woman of the Year program, she was also a candidate for the Josten's Trophy.

Earlier this spring, she was named to the 2019-2020 Academic All-America NCAA Division III Team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America and became the first Sage basketball player honored with this award and just the ninth Sage student-athlete to achieve this feat.

Flynn, who is a graduate student at Sage working on her MBA degree achieved a 3.99 grade point average as an undergraduate, while currently boasts a 4.0 as a graduate student.

Among the many honors she earned on the 2019-2020 season, she was named to the Empire 8 Women's Basketball Championship All-Tournament Team, a pair of Empire 8 Player of the Week citations and a selection to the Empire 8 Women's Basketball First Team.

Flynn added a career-best 28 points and picked up her team-leading 12^th double-double of the year after hauling in 17 rebounds in the team's 82-75 win over Utica College in the Empire 8 Semifinals. Flynn added 17 points in the first half and finished the night making 9-of-14 shots from the floor and 10-of-13 from the line. Against St. John Fisher in the Empire 8 Championship contest, Flynn finished the game with 12 points and added six rebounds with three steals. For the tournament, she averaged 20.0 ppg and 11.5 rpg, while shooting 53.8% from the floor and 2.0 steals.

A team captain this past season, she wraps her stellar career with 877 points, 684 rebounds, 44 blocked shots and a 51.9% field goal percentage in 86 appearances. She is the program's 12^th all-time leading scorer while standing fifth in career rebounds and tied for eighth in blocked shots. On the 2019-2020 season, she was the team's high scorer eight times, while also leading the team in rebounding 18 times. She added 12 double-double on the year and wraps her career with 19 double-doubles.

Flynn was a 27-game starter this year adding 13.6 ppg and 10.8 rpg, but tops for the squad. She also had 18 blocked shots with an impressive 51.5% field goal percentage having converted 136-of-264 field goals. She also shot 72.3% from the line (94-130), while adding 29 assists with 29 steals.

The Gators advanced to the championship game for the first time, earned the league's runner-up trophy after an impressive 15-12 mark with a 10-4 record in conference play.

Academically, she has earned multiple selections to the Empire 8 Presidents' List, the Sage Scholar-Athlete Team, as well as an induction into Sage's Athletic Honor Society. She is also a Dean's List student and was honored with Sage's Book Award and just this past weekend earned the Eli Werlin Award as an outstanding graduating woman in the field of accounting or business. On August 18 in Albany, Flynn will be recognized as one of the charter members of the first class of the Capital District Sports Women of the Year, which honors outstanding academics as well as excellence in athletics and community service.

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.