Recent UConn field hockey graduate Anna Middendorf, a three-time All-American from Bremen, Germany, has been chosen as the University of Connecticut\u2019s nomination for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Woman of the Year award.<\/p>\n
Middendorf has been an instrumental part of UConn\u2019s recent success, leading the Huskies to four-straight NCAA semifinals, including back-to-back NCAA championships in 2013 and 2014. The Huskies also have won five-consecutive Big East titles.<\/p>\n
The NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduating female student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership.<\/p>\n
Middendorf\u2019s name and credentials will join female college athletes from all over the country in the award pool, which will be trimmed to 10 Division I athletes in early September. Later in the month, three athletes are selected as finalists.<\/p>\n
The 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year will be announced on Sunday, Oct. 22 at the awards dinner in Indianapolis, Ind.<\/p>\n
A political science major, Middendorf maintained a 3.7 GPA despite a full workload as a field hockey player under head coach Nancy Stevens. She was named an Outstanding Senior Scholar Athlete at the 64th<\/sup> annual UConn Club Awards on April 26.<\/p>\n The German native was the centerpiece of the UConn defense throughout her career, earning two selections as a Third Team All-American and one as a First Team All-American in her final season. She was also a two-time All-Mideast Region First Team player.<\/p>\n In her senior campaign, Middendorf tallied a career-high 31 points as a defender \u2013 including a career-best 13 goals.<\/p>\n She was named Big East Co-Defensive Player of the Year and helped the UConn defense finish in the top five in all of Division I in goals allowed per game for the third-straight season.<\/p>\n In addition to her athletic and academic feats, Middendorf attended the Paris Climate Summit last December as a student representative for UConn. She also served on UConn\u2019s Fair Labor Practices committee and traveled to Washington, D.C. and Utah for national meetings.<\/p>\n Middendorf looks to join Rebecca Lobo, the only UConn student-athlete to win the NCAA Woman of the Year award since the honor began in 1991. The former UConn basketball player was honored in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The University of Connecticut nominated Anna Middendorf, a three-time All-American from Bremen, Germany, for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Woman of the Year award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":126149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,156,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[175],"class_list":["post-126147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-profile","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 23:48:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126161,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126147\/revisions\/126161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/126149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126147"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=126147"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=126147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}