GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference has nominated national champions Gabriela Leon (Louisville track & field) and Jaeda Daniel (NC State tennis) for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
The NCAA Woman of the Year Award was established in 1991 to recognize graduating female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
“We are extremely proud to recognize each of the incredible women that were nominated for this year’s NCAA Woman of the Year,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “As a league, we are honored to have Gabriela and Jaeda represent the ACC and all the best in college athletics, excelling in the classroom, competition and their communities.”
Louisville’s Leon recently completed an outstanding collegiate career, highlighted by a banner 2022 outdoor season. The Grand Rapids, Michigan, native became the program’s first women’s track and field outdoor national champion when she cleared 4.60m (15′ 1″) to win the pole vault at the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Leon became the fourth-ever collegiate women’s pole vaulter with three clearances of 4.60m (15′ 1″) and the only one this season with three over 4.57m (15′ 0″) in collegiate competition.
Additionally, Leon captured her second straight ACC women’s outdoor pole vault title and was named the USTFCCCA Southeast Region Outdoor Women’s Field Athlete of the Year, the ACC Women’s Outdoor Field Performer of the Year as well as the league’s Outdoor Track and Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year. Leon was named ACC Women’s Field Performer of the Week three times in 2022 and recorded a first-place finish in seven of eight outdoor meets including seven straight wins since the season opener. She set the outdoor school record of 4.61m (15′ 1″) at the Clark Wood Invitational.
An ACC Postgraduate Scholarship recipient and a five-time Louisville Dean’s Scholar, Leon graduated from Louisville with a degree in Exercise Science and a career GPA of 3.83. She earned a 4.0 GPA in both the fall and spring semesters of the most recent academic year and was named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team. Leon was also named a 2022 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sport Scholar of the Year recipient by Diverse: Issues in…
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