Hannah Risko Selected As Endicott’s NCAA Woman Of The Year Nominee
BEVERLY, Mass. – Endicott women’s cross country and track & field student-athlete Hannah Risko (Albany, N.Y.) has been chosen as Endicott College’s NCAA Woman of the Year nominee.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Endicott women's cross country and track & field student-athlete Hannah Risko (Albany, N.Y.) has been chosen as Endicott College's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee.
The NCAA Woman of the Year program was established in 1991 and honors the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service, and leadership of graduating female college student-athletes from all three divisions. To be eligible, a nominee must have competed and earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport and must have earned her undergraduate degree by Summer 2024.
Risko is now eligible to be selected as the Conference of New England's (CNE) nominee by the league's Senior Woman Administrators, which will be announced next week.
From there, Conference nominations are forwarded to the NCAA Woman of the Year Selection Committee, which identifies the top 10 honorees in each of the three NCAA divisions. Of those 30 honorees, the selection committee determines the three finalists in each division for a total of nine finalists.
The Committee on Women's Athletics will then select the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year from those nine finalists.
HANNAH RISKO RESUME
Risko recently completed her Bachelor of Science in finance (3.93 GPA) at Endicott, and is currently pursuing her MBA at the College (anticipated graduation: 2026).
In addition to her academic pursuits, she is a member of the Endicott L.E.A.D. program, is an academic success peer tutor, and a captain of the women's track and field program.
Risk has garnered many awards including 2024 Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Scholar-Athlete of the Year accolades, five CCC Academic All-Conference nods, the 2024 Endicott College Female Scholar-Athlete award, multiple dean's list honors, and membership into the Sigma Beta Delta Business Honor Society.
Athletically, Risko standout achievement occurred this spring as the senior harrier won the 2024 New England D3 Outdoor 5,000-meter title with a school/personal/facility record time of 17:38.33.
She is the first student-athlete in program history to capture an individual regional championship, indoors or outdoors.
Risko also is a two-time All-New England honoree (5k, 4x800m), a conference champion in the 800m, and a four-time All-CCC award winner (800m; 1,500m; 5,000m; 4x400m).