NCAA Woman of the Year Top 30 Honorees
INDIANAPOLIS – Former Slippery Rock University track & field and cross country standout
Anna Igims was named Wednesday as one of the Top 30 honorees for the 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Igims, a 2024 graduate from Pittsburgh, is one of just 10 women from NCAA Division II to advance to the next stage of the competition for the 2025 Woman of the Year Award. She will be recognized by the NCAA Wednesday evening in a private online ceremony alongside the other Top 30 honorees.
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year Award is rooted in Title IX and recognizes female student-athletes who have completed their undergraduate studies and distinguished themselves in their community, in athletics and in academics throughout their college careers.
Selected from a record-breaking 631 nominees submitted by member schools — a group that was then narrowed to 167 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 competed in a total of 14 NCAA championship sports and two NCAA Emerging Sports for Women. They have a variety of majors, including chemistry, mathematics, biology, education, engineering, psychology, nursing, computer science, journalism, sport management and more.
"These honorees represent the very best of what it means to be a student-athlete, and the character-building potential that is inherent in all athletic pursuits. They have distinguished themselves among the many thousands of collegiate athletes who find and surpass their limits every day on the journey to becoming their best selves, not just in sport, but in life," said Marion Terenzio, chair of the Woman of the Year Selection Committee and president of SUNY Cobleskill. "I congratulate all of the remarkable women named to the Top 30 and applaud their demonstrated ability to create positive change in themselves and in the world around them."
From these 30 finalists, the Woman of the Year Selection Committee will choose the 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year, who will be announced this fall and recognized at the NCAA Convention in January.
One of the most decorated student-athletes in SRU track & field history, Igims graduated in 2024 with a 3.98 GPA and a degree in school wellness education with a minor in public health. She completed a full year of graduate work in 2024-25 with a perfect 4.0 GPA in the applied behavioral analysis program before being named the 2024-25 PSAC Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the 2024-25 Division II Conference Commissioner's Association Atlantic Region Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
A two-time Academic All-America honoree, Igims was also a three-time Academic All-District honoree, a six-time USTFCCA All-Academic selection, a five-time PSAC Top 10 honoree, a five-time PSAC Scholar-Athlete and a five-time D2ADA Academic Achievement honoree. She also earned a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA to complete her graduate degree.
Igims was unbeatable in the PSAC in 2024-25. She won seven PSAC individual titles and led Slippery Rock to team titles in cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field. She opened the year by winning the PSAC and Atlantic Region titles in cross country, becoming the first SRU female distance runner to ever accomplish that feat. She followed that up by earning All-America honors at the National Championships in the fall, becoming the first SRU female cross country All-American since 2010. She was named the PSAC and Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year in the fall.
Igims then won three PSAC titles at the indoor conference meet, taking the crown in the distance medley relay, the mile and the 3,000-meter run. She earned All-Region honors with the fastest time in the region in four different events and placed 17th in the 5,000-meter run at the National Championships before being named the PSAC and Atlantic Region Track Athlete of the Year.
Igims closed the 2024-25 academic year with a stellar spring, winning PSAC titles in the 1,500-meter run, 5,000-meter run and the 3,000-meter steeplechase on the way to being named the Most Outstanding Track Athlete and the Overall MVP at the PSAC Championships. She broke the SRU record in the steeplechase twice during the year (10:17) and earned first team All-America honors with a seventh place finish at the National Championships. She was named the PSAC Track Athlete of the Year to complete a year-long sweep with three PSAC Athlete of the Year awards. Igims departed Slippery Rock with school records in the indoor mile (4:55), outdoor 5K (16:38) and steeplechase (10:17). She was a three-time All-American, a 14-time PSAC champion, a six-time PSAC Athlete of the Year, a three-time Atlantic Region Athlete of the Year, a 21-time All-PSAC honoree and a 21-time All-Region selection.
In addition to her excellence on the track and in the classroom, Igims was also a model citizen on the SRU campus and in the community. She spent time working as a graduate assistant in curriculum, instruction and educational leadership and volunteered as a cross country camp counselor, with the Special Olympics and with the Rock Life and Unified Fitness programs on campus, where she worked with non-traditional students and students with adapted needs to help them achieve their education, career and fitness goals. She also volunteered annually for SRU's Week of Welcome, worked as a transitional achievement program student mentor and spent time teaching in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Grove City and Butler School Districts.
Igims is joined on the list of Top 30 honorees by some of the highest-achieving female student-athletes in the country, including major names like former UConn women's basketball standout and current WNBA star Paige Bueckers. The NCAA will announce the winner of the award later this fall.
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