![]() |
||||||||||||||||||
|
Amanda Weinmann named MIAC's Woman of Year
Last Monday, Weinmann was one of five athletes from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and SMU's first-ever track athlete to be named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V Track and Field/Cross Country First Team. And a week later, the SMU senior was selected by the MIAC Executive Committee as the MIAC's 2007 Woman of the Year once again marking the first time an SMU track and field athlete has been chosen, and she is just the second individual in school history to earn such a prestigious honor. Fastpitch softball standout Jill Hocking was Minnesota's Woman of the Year in 2001. Weinmann's name, along with selections from all other NCAA Division III conferences, has been forwarded to the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee. The selection committee will select the top 10 winners in each division (NCAA I, II and III). From among those 30 honorees, the committee will determine the top three in each division, and, finally, the members of the CWA will vote from those top nine to determine the 2007 NCAA Woman of the Year. The top three honorees from Divisions I, II and III will be honored and the 2007 NCAA Woman of the Year announced, at a dinner in Indianapolis, Ind., on October 27, 2007. Weinmann closed out her collegiate career in impressive fashion in 2007 on all three levels. She broke both the indoor shot put and weight throw school records, was crowned conference champion in the weight throw (indoor) and shot put (outdoor), and earned All-American honors with eighth-place finishes in the shot put at both the indoor and outdoor NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championships. A double-major in biophysics and engineering physics with a 3.99 GPA, Weinmann leaves SMU as a three-time All-American, a four-time All-MIAC selection, as well as the owner of seven MIAC Field Athlete of the Week honors. |
|||||||||||||||||