PORTLAND, Ore. --- Portland rowing's Molly Templin, who recently graduated following a decorated collegiate career, has been selected as 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. Templin, who originally hails from Anchorage, Alaska, is one of two student-athletes from the West Coast Conference nominated for the prestigious award, joining Marta Stojanovic from San Diego's women's tennis team.
 
Templin earned All-WCC honors this spring as a senior for the Pilots as she helped lead Portland to a fourth-place finish at the 2016 WCC Rowing Championships. Templin was a member of the Varsity Eight that had the best finish in program history at the championships.
 
She was named a Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) National Scholar Athletes for three consecutive seasons and earned WCC All-Academic Team honors with a 3.88 GPA in biology.
 
The NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in academics, athletics, service and leadership.
 
The Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will now choose the top 30 honorees – 10 from each division. From the top 30, the selection committee determines the top three honorees from each division and announces the nine finalists in September.
 
The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then chooses from among those nine to determine the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year. The top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year winner will be announced at the annual award ceremony Oct. 16 in Indianapolis.