JERSEY CITY, NJ – Saint Peter's softball 2018 graduate
Nicole Feoli has been named as one of nine female student-athletes from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference nominated for the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
On the field, Feoli appeared in all 48 games for the Peacocks this season, hitting a .285 average across 144 at bats. She recorded eight doubles, two triples, and hit one home run, while driving in 16 runs. Feoli also stole 12 bases while only be caught stealing just once. She earned MAAC All-Rookie team honors as a freshman in 2015.
Feoli doubled majored in Elementary Education and Sociology and graduated in May with a 3.71 grade point average. She was named the 2018 Saint Peter's Scholar Athlete of the Year and 2018 Saint Peter's NJAIAW Woman of the Year. Feoil was also a three-time MAAC All-Academic team selection.
In the community, Feoli was the team leader in setting up visits to the Women's Nursing Home. She worked with the Saint Peter's Campus Kitchen all four years, assisting with meal preparation for the homeless and delivering food to the local homeless shelters. She also participated in annual Breast Cancer Walks and worked with Junkyard Dogs, an organization that uses volunteers to help clean up trash on the streets of Jersey City.
The NCAA Woman of the Year award, established in 1991, honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
NCAA member schools have nominated a record 581 female college athletes for the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year award. The nominees competed in 20 different women's sports across all three NCAA divisions, including 251 from Division I, 131 from Division II and 199 from Division III. A program-record 170 were multisport athletes in college.
The MAAC, along with other 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. From the Top 30, the selection committee determines the top three honorees from each division and announces the nine finalists in September. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then chooses the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year from those nine.
The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year will be announced at the annual award ceremony, held October 28 in Indianapolis.
