Courtesy of Delaware State Athletic Media Relations


DOVER, Del., July 15, 2020 -- Delaware State All-America bowler Alexis Neuer has added to her list of career honors with the Hornets. Neuer last week was announced as DSU's nominee for the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
 
She is one of a record 605 nominees for the award, including one of 259 nominees from NCAA Division I schools. 
 
Neuer became the first Hornet named to the National Tenpin Coaches Association (NTCA) All-America First Team, earning the honor this spring. She was also named MEAC Bowler of the Year for the second time in her career this season, also earning the award in 2018.
 
Off the lanes, Neuer was also honored as a NTCA Academic All-America this season.  
 
A native of Lewisburg, Pa., she was selected as the MEAC's Bowler of the Week a league-high three times this season. In more than 1,000 total frames bowled this season, she averaged nearly 21 pins per frame (20.81) and she had an overall fill rate of 89.1 percent. She rolled strikes 50.5 percent of the time, and her all-spare percentage came in at 87.8 percent.

In addition, she was MVP of the Stormin' Blue & White Classic, tied for the third-highest single-game in the league this season with a 268 she rolled at that tournament and eighth-best point total (258; 2X) in the league this season. 
 
Neuer was also MEAC Co-Rookie of the Year in 2017 and selected to the All-MEAC First Team in 2018 and '19.
 
She is the fourth individual to earn multiple MEAC Bowler-of-the-Year awards, and second Delaware State student-athlete with multiple conference player-of-the-year honors, joining Hornet men's basketball standout Jahsha Bluntt (2006-07).
 
Rooted in Title IX, 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.
 
The Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division.
 
From the Top 30, the Woman of the Year selection committee will determine the top three honorees in each division and announce nine finalists. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then will choose the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year, who will be named this fall.