Ivana Shah, Akron Student Athlete was last awarded the Dinah Shore Trophy in 2021
Ivana Shah, from Mumbai, now a Division I golfer studying Biomedical Engineering at the University of Akron in Ohio, has been named one of the top-30 in the race for the NCAA Woman of the Year 2022.
Shah recorded a fifth-place finish at the 2022 MAC Women’s Golf Championship, where she also led her team to third-place finishes in the team event in 2021 and 2022.
Shah is a summa cum laude graduate and four-time Women’s Collegiate Golf Association All-American Scholar, as well as a student researcher in the biomedical engineering lab. A finalist for the 2022 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award, she was inducted into Chi Alpha Sigma, a national honor society that recognizes student-athletes for their success in the classroom and athletics. Shah received the LPGA Foundation’s 2021 Dinah Shore Trophy for academics, athletics, leadership skills and community service and Akron’s Williams Honors College 2022 Hunter Award for leadership and commitment to community service.
According to a statement, the candidates for the award, which was established in 1991, are “selected from 577 school nominees — a group that was then narrowed to 156 nominees at the conference level — the Top 30 honorees include 10 from each of the three NCAA divisions. Each honoree has demonstrated excellence in academics, athletics, community service and leadership. The honorees represent 14 sports and include nine multisport student-athletes. They have a variety of majors, including biological and biomedical engineering, psychology, business, digital communications, education, nursing, law and policy, and robotics.”
The selection committee will select three honorees from each NCAA division for a total of nine finalists. The award ceremony will be held at the NCAA Convention in January in San Antonio.
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