Aurora University and the athletic department announced the 2021-2022 recipient of the Spartan Woman of the Year Award. The honor has been bestowed upon recent AU graduate Hannah Tomasko. The Spartan Woman of the Year award honors a graduating female student-athlete athletes who has exhausted her eligibility and distinguished herself throughout her collegiate careers in academics, athletics, service and leadership.
With being the AU Woman of the Year, Hannah Tomasko joins a distinguished list of female student-athletes from NCAA conferences and independent schools who have nominated female student-athletes for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. These women represent college athletes spanning all three NCAA divisions.
In her time as a Spartan in the women's softball program, Tomasko was front and center in the Spartans success on and off the field. She was the 2020-2021 AU Female Athlete of the Year, a 2021 CoSIDA Academic All-America selection, a 2021 and 2022 CoSIDA Academic All-District selection. She was a four-time AU and Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference scholar-athlete, a 2021 NFCA All-American pitcher, a two-time NFCA All-Region selection and a three-time NACC All-Conference player.
In the community, Wood excelled, serving as a leader of the AU women's softball team and gave back to the greater AU community as she took part in Project Linus, National Girls & Women in Sports Day, Aurora Area Interfaith food pantry and was a member of the AU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
ABOUT THE NCAA WOMAN OF THE YEAR PROCESS
The Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will then choose the top 30 honorees – 10 from each division. From the top 30, the selection committee determines the top three honorees from each division and announces the nine finalists in September. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then chooses from among those nine to determine the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year.
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.
Source: https://athletics.aurora.edu/news/2022/6/30/softball-tomasko-named-spartan-woman-of-the-year.aspx
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