INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Valdosta State senior softball standout Logan Hill was announced Tuesday as the Blazers' nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.  Hill is one of 126 student-athletes from across NCAA Division II institutions nominated and one of a record 605 total nominations from all three divisions.  

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.
Of the 605 nominations, 259 are from Division I, 126 from Division II and 220 from Division III.  Nominees competed in 24 sports, with multi-sport student-athletes accounting for 128 of the total nominations.

Conference offices will select up to two nominees from their pool of member school nominees.  Then, the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will chose the Top 30 honorees – 10 from each division.
From the Top 30, the Woman of the Year selection committee will determine the top three honorees in each division and announce the nine finalists.  The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then will choose the 2020 NCAA Woman of the Year, who will be named this fall.

Hill, a native of Lake Park, Ga., will still have a year of eligibility in Spring 2021 to play softball for the Blazers, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.  She was eligible for nomination for NCAA Woman of the Year as she graduated from VSU with her bachelor's degree in Health Sciences in May.  She earned Second Team Academic All-America® as selected by CoSIDA honors this season, was named to the prestigious GSC Top Ten and earned GSC All-Academic accolades in 2020.
 
Hill got off to a torrid pace to begin the season in 2020, before it was cut short in March due to the pandemic.  When the season was halted, the Blazers were 18-5 overall and 7-2 in GSC play.  She led the nation in home runs with 11 round-trippers and was second nationally in on base average at a .531 clip, while slugging a team-best .984 for sixth nationally.  Hill was eighth nationally in total bases with 63 for second in the GSC, while hitting a team-high .406 for the season with 26 hits in 64 at bats.  She had a team-high 25 RBI and drew 16 free passes for most on the team.  Hill recorded 135 putouts in 142 chances with seven assists and no errors at first base for the Blazers.  She has six multi-hit games for second on the team and had a season-high ten-game hitting streak, while reaching base in 15-straight games during the season to lead the team.  Hill was named GSC Player of the Week once and had three games of two home runs to lead the team.  She drove in seven on a 3 for 3 game with two runs scored and two home runs versus Albany State (2/27/20). 
 
Had the season been played in its entirety, Hill was on pace for potentially setting the NCAA record for home runs in a season, as the record is 32 for NCAA Division II in a single season.  Hill's 11 dingers were in the first 23 games of the season before the Pandemic began.