INDIANAPOLIS – Augustana graduate Kendall Cornick has been selected as the conference honoree for the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year the NCAA announced Monday. Cornick is the NSIC honoree after NCAA member schools nominated 535 women for the national award.
 
Rooted in Title IX and directed by the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics, the NCAA Woman of the Year program celebrates the accomplishments of female college athletes across all three NCAA divisions.
 
Cornick, the NSIC's Kelley Award honoree as the league's top student-athlete, has seen the accolades roll in following her impressive career at Augustana. Cornick was named the 2021 CoSIDA NCAA Division II Academic All-America Team Member of the Year and concluded her career as a two-time Academic All-America selection. She was also recently honored as an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award winner and will attend the University of Iowa for medical school beginning this fall.
 
She was also a unanimous First Team All-America selection after her stellar season on the Vikings' softball team en route to being named the NSIC Player of the Year. The outfielder hailing from Mason City, Iowa, hit .453 in the 2021 season with 78 hits, 34 stolen bases and 65 runs scored. Her stolen bases ranked her second in the nation while her batting average ranked her third in NCAA Division II.
 
All conference nominees are forwarded to the Woman of the Year selection committee, which chooses the top 30 honorees—10 from each Division. From the top 30, the selection committee determines the top three nominees from each Division and announces the top nine finalists in September. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then chooses from among those nine to determine the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year. The 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year winner will be announced this fall.