Olivia Johnson Nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award

NEW ORLEANS – Former Tulane University swimmer Olivia Johnson was nominated 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.

"I could not be more excited for Olivia," head coach Leah Stancil said. "Her nomination for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award is well deserved. Her dedication and desire to be the very best she could be an inspiration to our team. I am so thrilled to have had the opportunity to coach her and I know she will be successful in her future endeavors."

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.

Johnson received the nomination after she established herself as one of the finest student-athletes to ever compete in swimming at Tulane University.

During her four-year athletic career, Johnson captured three gold medals at the American Athletic Conferences Championships and became the first Tulane swimmer to ever win two gold medals in the same meet. She earned AAC all-conference honors in each of her four years in Uptown and made nine trips to the medal stand at the AAC Championships. In her final season with the Green Wave, Johnson qualified for the Olympic Trials, earned qualifying bids to the 2020 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in three events and earned All-America honors from the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).

The West Lafayette, Indiana, native also achieved excellence in the classroom and the community.

As a student, Johnson was a four-year member of the 3.0 Club, was selected to the Dean's List in five semesters and was a four-year CSCAA Scholar All-America recipient. In the community, Johnson was a four-year volunteer coach for the Special Olympics, spent three years as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and served as the swim team's representative on the Student-Athlete advisory committee.
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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