RUSTON – Former Louisiana Tech soccer midfielder Amber Posthauer is one of 535 female college athletes nominated by NCAA member schools for the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year award.
 
Posthauer finished up her four-year career as a Lady Techster this past spring, amassing 33 points on 14 goals and five assists while famously breaking the single-game program and Conference USA record for most points and goals during her junior year.
 
In the classroom, the Pflugerville, Texas native was both a C-USA All-Academic First Team selection and a First Team CoSIDA Academic All-District 6 honoree this past season. 
 
The four-time C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll recipient and three-time C-USA Academic Medalist recently graduated with a cumulative grade point average of 3.98 while majoring in Exercise and Health Promotion with a minor in Entrepreneurship.
 
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award is rooted in Title IX and recognizes graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their NCAA eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
 
The nominees competed in 24 sports across all three NCAA divisions, including 251 nominees from Division I, 107 from Division II and 177 from Division III. Multisport student-athletes account for 141 of the nominees.
 
The NCAA encourages member schools to honor their top graduating female college athletes by nominating them 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.
 
Next, conferences 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 10 women from each division to make up the Top 30.
 
The selection committee will determine the top three honorees in each division from the Top 30, and the nine finalists will be announced this fall. From those nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will choose the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year later this fall.
 
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