PORTLAND, Ore. --- Former Pilot standout Hannah Troutman has been nominated by the University of Portland as a candidate for the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year award. Troutman was the first Portland volleyball student-athlete in school history to earn back to back All-WCC First Team honors and helped transform the volleyball program into a perennial contender in the always competitive West Coast Conference. 

For 28 years, this program has honored the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service and leadership of outstanding female college athletes.

The WCC Conference office will next select up to two conference nominees to move forward. Each conference nominee will be notified by the NCAA, and all conference-round nominees will be announced on ncaa.org in early August. 

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. From those 30 candidates, the selection committee then determines the three finalists in each division for a total of nine finalists.

The Committee on Women's Athletics will select the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year from the nine finalists. The 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year will be announced Sunday, Oct. 28, at an awards dinner in Indianapolis.