For the second year in a row, former Ashland University forward
Annie Roshak is the Eagle athletic department's nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year.
Roshak also, for the first time, is the Great Midwest Athletic Conference's nominee for the award, as she has moved on as a conference nominee for the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year citation.
The Great Midwest announced on Wednesday (Aug. 28) afternoon that Roshak will go on from the conference level to the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee, which identifies the Top 30 – 10 from each division – and from there selects three finalists from each division. From the nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then selects the NCAA Woman of the Year, who is named during the 2025 NCAA Convention, Jan. 14-17 in Nashville, Tenn..
"I'm super honored to be chosen as the conference's nominee for this award," Roshak said. "Not just in basketball, but in all the sports, there are so many great female student-athletes across the conference.
"It's been such a joy to get to represent AU for the last five years. It's a special place with special people, and I count myself really fortunate to have been immersed so heavily in this community."
Roshak's list of fifth-year honors and accomplishments from 2023-24 continues to grow, and includes:
- Great Midwest Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
- Great Midwest women's Collegiate Achievement Award.
- College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District.
- Averaging 15.4 points and 6.2 rebounds per game, making 59.3 percent from the field, 39.5 percent from 3-point range and 84.9 percent from the free-throw line, and scoring a team-high 509 points for a 31-2 team which won both the Great Midwest regular-season and tournament championships, and reached the NCAA Division II postseason.
- First-team Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-American and second-team Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-American.
- D2CCA All-Midwest Region first team.
- All-Great Midwest Tournament Team.
- Great Midwest Player of the Year and first-team all-league.
- Becoming the program's all-time leading scorer with 2,370 career points.
In Ashland's MBA program, Roshak graduated with a post-grad grade-point average of 3.97. Her various community service activities include youth camps/skills clinics at AU, work with Associated Charities and the Akron-Canton Food Bank, spending time with residents at Brethren Care, being a part of AU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and more.
The NCAA Woman of the Year program was established in 1991, and honors the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service and leadership of graduating female college athletes from all three divisions. To be eligible, a nominee must have competed and earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport and must have earned her undergraduate degree by summer 2024.
Eligible female student-athletes are nominated by their member school. Each conference office then reviews the nominations from its core member schools (and sponsored sports) and submits its conference nominee(s) to the NCAA. All nominees who compete in a sport that is not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be sent to a separate pool to be considered by a committee.
