Women’s golfer Shi Qing Ong was nominated for the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year Award. Ong was one of a record-585 female college athletes nominated for the award.
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award recognizes graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
The NCAA encourages member schools to honor their top graduating female student-athletes each year by submitting their names for consideration for the Woman of the Year award.
Ong was recently honored as Missouri Western’s first ever Women’s At-Large selection to the Google Cloud Academic All-America® team, earning second-team honors. She was also MWSU’s first-ever Ken B. Jones Award finalist, given each year to the top female and male student-athletes in the MIAA. Ong was named MWSU’s Female Student Athlete of the Year following a remarkable season on the links. Ong was named WGCA All-American, WGCA All-Region and MIAA Women’s Golfer of the Year. Her MIAA honor was the second consecutive after claiming back-to-back MIAA Championship titles. Her conference tournament championship capped a run of five-straight individual event championships this past spring. Ong ended her career with an MWSU-record 14 individual titles.
She was also named Missouri Western’s International Student of the Year for 2018-19. A four-time first team All-MIAA selection and four-time MIAA Scholar-Athlete award winner, Ong graduated from MWSU this past spring with a bachelor’s degree in biology/health sciences. She is currently enrolled in the physical therapy program at the University of Oklahoma.
Next, conferences will select up to two nominees each from the pool of school nominees. Then, 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.
The selection committee will determine the top three honorees from each division from the Top 30 and announce the nine finalists in September. From those nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics then will choose the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year.
The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2019 NCAA Woman of the Year will be named at the annual award ceremony Oct. 20 in Indianapolis.