INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – Women's lacrosse graduate Hailey Wagner, '19 has been selected as Marist Athletics' NCAA Woman of the Year nominee, the NCAA announced on Wednesday. Wagner is one of 12 Division I women's lacrosse student-athletes to receive a nomination.
 
Each year, the NCAA encourages member schools to honor their top graduating female student-athletes by submitting their names for consideration for the Woman of the Year award.
 
During her four-year tenure with the Red Foxes, Wagner became an excellent representative both on and off the field.
 

ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE

• She finished her career as both Marist's and the NCAA's all-time leader with 224 draw controls in a single season.
• She is also second all-time in the NCAA with 573 career draw controls and a career 12.44 draw controls per game.
• In the NCAA single-game records, Wagner boasts three of the top-four marks in draw controls, with 23, 22, and 21 draws each in one game.
• Wagner also accrued 102 goals and 162 points across 71 career games.

 

ATHLETIC HONORS

• In 2019 alone, Wagner was named to the All-MAAC First Team, MAAC All-Tournament Team, All-ECAC First Team, IWLCA Northeast Second Team, and an Inside Lacrosse All-American Draw Control Specialist Honorable Mention.
• She also participated in the 2019 IWLCA Senior All-Star game, being one of 44 Division I student-athletes selected to play.
• For her career, she was added to the All-MAAC Second Team in 2017 and 2018, and earned a spot on the All-Rookie Team in her freshman campaign.
• This past year, Wagner won the Marist Female Sportsperson of the Year Award at the 2019 Senior Awards Banquet.
• In 2018, she was chosen as an Honorable Mention for the MAAC Student-Athlete of the Year.

 

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

• Wagner graduated in May of 2019 with a degree in Biomedical Sciences and a 3.98 GPA.
• Her work in the classroom led to her inclusion on the 2018-19 CoSIDA Academic All-America Women's At-Large Third Team in Division I.
• From 2017 to 2019, Wagner was selected to the MAAC All-Academic Team.
• She was named to the ECAC President's Honor Roll after the 2018 season.
• In addition to winning the Marist Female Sportsperson of the Year Award, she also won the President's Academic Achievement Award, which was presented to the senior that had the highest cumulative GPA.

 

INTERNSHIPS

• A member of the School of Science, Wagner took part in three internships while at Marist.
• She worked at MidHudson Regional Hospital in Fairview, New York, Stony Brook Orthopaedic Associates in East Setauket, New York, and Stony Brook University's Hand Center in East Setauket, New York.
• She was awarded the School of Science's Internship Award as recognition for her contributions in these endeavors.

 
A record 585 female college athletes have been nominated by NCAA member schools for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year award. The nominees competed in 23 different sports across all three NCAA divisions, including 262 nominees from Division I, 131 from Division II and 192 from Division III. Multisport student-athletes account for 144 of the nominees.
 
Next, conferences will select up to two nominees each from the pool of school nominees. 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.
 
The selection committee will determine the top three honorees in each division from the Top 30 and announce the nine finalists in September. From those nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then will choose the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year.
 
The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year will be named at the annual award ceremony Oct. 20 in Indianapolis.