Mercurio Named NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist

Three-time Nebraska track and field All-American Angela Mercurio has been named as one of nine finalists for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year award, the NCAA announced on Wednesday.

The nine finalists were chosen from 30 Woman of the Year honorees, who will be recognized when the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year award winner is announced at an awards dinner on Oct. 20 in Indianapolis. Schools nominated a record 585 college athletes for the award.

A native of Kitchener, Ontario, Mercurio was a two-time Google Cloud Academic All-America Second Team selection, as well as a three-time Big Ten Distinguished Scholar and four-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree. Earlier this year, she was also a recipient of both the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship the Big Ten Postgraduate Scholarship. Mercurio also was honored as one of the first-ever Rose Bowl Game Keith Jackson Postgraduate Scholarship recipients Wednesday morning. She graduated from Nebraska in May with a 3.99 GPA as a double major in biochemistry and women's & gender studies.

Mercurio was a four-year letterwinner on the Nebraska track and field team and was a three-time second-team All-American in the triple jump. She also earned the conference title in the event at the 2019 Big Ten Indoor Championships before going on to place ninth in the triple jump at the 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships.

The NCAA Woman of the Year award has been presented annually since 1991 and recognizes the nation's top senior female student-athlete who has excelled in the award's four pillars of academics, athletics, service and leadership. Nebraska volleyball standout Billie Winsett-Fletcher is the only student from a current Big Ten school to have been chosen as NCAA Woman of the Year, receiving the award in 1996.