Webb Nominated for 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year

DURANT, Okla. - Southeastern women’s basketball player Katie Webb is a 2020 nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year.

Webb, a native of Melissa, Texas, put together a spectacular season to end her storied career at SE.

She picked up a pair of All-American honors and was named the Great American Conference Player of the Year in women’s basketball and was ultimately named Southeastern’s Female Athlete of the Year.

Over the season Webb averaged a league-leading 18.7 ppg while shooting 48.0 percent from the field and hauled in a team-best 7.6 rebounds per outing.

Webb also dished out 2.7 assists per game, snagged 1.2 steals and blocked 16 shots.

She also became Southestern’s number two scorer alltime with 1,649 points, which ranks fourth all-time in the GAC. Her 756 career rebounds is fourth all time at SE and eighth in conference history.

In the classroom she most recently completed her MBA and was named to the AD and the President’s honor rolls, and in 2019 was CoSIDA Academic All-American.

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.

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.

Member schools are encouraged to honor their top graduating female college athletes each year by submitting their names for consideration for the Woman of the Year Award. Schools can recognize two nominees if at least one is a woman of color or international student-athlete.

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.