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Wheatley Honored As Ivy League Nominee For Woman of the Year Award
July 27, 2016 | Women's Basketball
PRINCETON, N.J. – Alex Wheatley '16 has been selected as one of two nominations from the Ivy League for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.
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A group of 517 honorees has been whittled down to 142 conference selections. The next step is for the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, to choose the top 30 honorees - 10 from each division.
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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 picks from among those nine to determine the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year.?Â
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The top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year winner will be announced at the annual award ceremony Oct. 16 in Indianapolis.
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The four pillars of the award are academics, athletics, service and leadership.
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The ecology and evolutionary biology major was part of a senior class that was one of the most successful in Ivy women's basketball history. She helped the program go 97-23 (.808) overall and 50-6 (.892) in Ivy League play. During her time at Princeton, the Tigers won two Ivy League championships, won the program's first NCAA Tournament game and became the first team in conference history to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Off the court, the finalist for the Princeton C. Otto von Kybosh Award was instrumental in orchestrating Athletes Helping Athletes events, a non-profit organization used to connect local special needs athletes with mainstream student-athletes in a spirit of friendship for their mutual benefit and inspiration.Â
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After a stellar senior season, Wheatley became just one of six players in program history to be named to the first team All-Ivy League in back-to-back years. She also nabbed honorable mention All-Ivy League as a sophomore. The forward became a 1,000-point scorer, finishing with 1,137 in her career, the 24th player all-time to reach the mark. Wheatley boasts the third highest field goal percentage (56.1) in women's basketball history and also showed off a great all-around game as well, finishing with over 500 rebounds, 100 assists, 100 blocks and 100 steals in her career.
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A group of 517 honorees has been whittled down to 142 conference selections. The next step is for the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, to choose the top 30 honorees - 10 from each division.
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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 picks from among those nine to determine the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year.?Â
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The top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year winner will be announced at the annual award ceremony Oct. 16 in Indianapolis.
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The four pillars of the award are academics, athletics, service and leadership.
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The ecology and evolutionary biology major was part of a senior class that was one of the most successful in Ivy women's basketball history. She helped the program go 97-23 (.808) overall and 50-6 (.892) in Ivy League play. During her time at Princeton, the Tigers won two Ivy League championships, won the program's first NCAA Tournament game and became the first team in conference history to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Off the court, the finalist for the Princeton C. Otto von Kybosh Award was instrumental in orchestrating Athletes Helping Athletes events, a non-profit organization used to connect local special needs athletes with mainstream student-athletes in a spirit of friendship for their mutual benefit and inspiration.Â
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After a stellar senior season, Wheatley became just one of six players in program history to be named to the first team All-Ivy League in back-to-back years. She also nabbed honorable mention All-Ivy League as a sophomore. The forward became a 1,000-point scorer, finishing with 1,137 in her career, the 24th player all-time to reach the mark. Wheatley boasts the third highest field goal percentage (56.1) in women's basketball history and also showed off a great all-around game as well, finishing with over 500 rebounds, 100 assists, 100 blocks and 100 steals in her career.
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