CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Thirteen institutional nominees for the 2010 America East Woman of the Year award have been announced by the conference office. University at Albany’s Fey Adaramola (track & field) and Valerie Sourbeer (volleyball), Binghamton University’s Amanda Casares (soccer) and Dawn Lammert (volleyball), Boston University’s Emily Pallotta (soccer), University of Hartford’s Erica Beverly (basketball) and Sadie Heald (golf), University of Maine’s Alexis Souhlaris (softball) and Vicki Tolton (track & field), UMBC’s Alice Chen (tennis), University of New Hampshire’s Kirsten Bates (volleyball), Stony Brook University’s Alyssa Struzenberg (softball) and University of Vermont’s May Kotsopoulos (basketball) have been chosen as the senior female student-athletes on their respective campuses that best exemplified a commitment to service, leadership, athletics and academics during their collegiate careers.
To be nominated, student-athletes must have completed intercollegiate eligibility in her primary sport by the end of the 2010 spring season or received her undergraduate degree prior to the conclusion of the summer 2010 term and have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 2.500 (4.000 scale).
In conjunction with the changes in the nomination process for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, the America East Woman of the Year award was established for the 2005-06 athletic season. Beginning in 2006, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics (CWA) started receiving conference-designated nominees in lieu of the previous institution- and state-based nomination format.
The nominees will be narrowed down to three finalists on Tuesday, June 1 via a release on the conference web site with the America East Woman of the Year being announced at the conference’s Annual Meeting in Lake Placid, N.Y. on Monday, June 7.
The America East Woman of the Year will then be forwarded to the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee. The selection committee will select the top 10 winners in each NCAA division (I, II and III). From among those 30 honorees, the selection committee will determine the top three in each division. Finally, the members of the CWA will vote from among the top nine to determine the 2010 NCAA Woman of the Year.
2010 Institutional Woman of the Year Nominees
Nominee School Sport
Fey Adaramola Albany Track & Field
Valerie Sourbeer Albany Volleyball
Amanda Casares Binghamton Soccer
Dawn Lammert Binghamton Volleyball
Emily Pallotta Boston University Soccer
Erica Beverly Hartford Basketball
Sadie Heald Hartford Golf
Alexis Souhlaris Maine Softball
Vicki Tolton Maine Track & Field
Alice Chen UMBC Tennis
Kirsten Bates New Hampshire Volleyball
Alyssa Struzenberg Stony Brook Softball
May Kotsopoulos Vermont Basketball
Year-by-Year America East Woman of the Year Honorees
2009 Kristen Millar, Vermont (women’s lacrosse)
2008 Sarah Hudak, Boston U. (field hockey)
2007 Marisa Ryan, Boston U. (cross country/track & field)
2006 Ashlee Reed, Albany (volleyball)