Courtesy of Delaware State Athletic Media Relations


DOVER, Del., Aug. 10, 2020 -- Delaware State's Alexis Neuer, a four-year member of the Hornet bowling team and 2020 DSU graduate, has been selected as a conference honoree for the next NCAA Woman of the Year award.

NCAA member schools nominated 605 women for the national award, the most in the program's 30-year history. Nationally, 161 conference-level honorees are nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year.

Conference-level nominations will be forwarded to the NCAA Woman of the Year Selection Committee, which will choose the top 10 honorees in each of the three NCAA divisions. The NCAA will announce the Top 30 honorees on ncaa.org in September.

From among those 30 candidates, the selection committee determines the top three finalists in each division. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will select the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year from the nine finalists. Information about the award, selection process and previous winners is available at ncaa.org/woty.

The 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year will be announced this fall.

Neuer is the first Delaware State Woman of the Year nominee to reach this stage in the process since Jazmyne Hefflefinger was a top 10 Division I finalist in 2012.

Neuer became the first Hornet named to the National Tenpin Coaches Association All-America First Team, earning the honor in the spring. She was also named MEAC Bowler-of-the-Year for the second time in her career this season, adding to her 2018 award.

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.