Following the announcement earlier this month that softball’s Andrea Howard was named a University of New Mexico nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, the Mountain West has selected Howard to represent the conference.
In total, conference offices named 151 athletes as their nominees, according to the NCAA announcement released Monday, with 53 nominees from Division I. The Lobo will be the lone nominee from the Mountain West.
The Top 30 will be announced in October, and from there, the selection committee will narrow the pool down to three finalists from each division.
Howard, who played at La Cueva, was named a CoSIDA Academic First Team All-American last season, becoming the first two-time, first-team All-American in UNM Softball history.