FREELAND, Mich. – Maggie Kamp, a four-year standout in volleyball at Calvin College, is the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association's nominee for the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year.
In its 26th year of existence, the NCAA Woman of the Year award was established in 1991 to recognize the excellence of all-around student-athletes that have exhausted their four years of intercollegiate eligibility. The honor recognizes exemplary achievement in academics, athletics, service and leadership.
Kamp is one of 142 female student-athletes recognized out of a record 517 school nominees. She is one of 51 representing NCAA Division III. Later this year, the Woman of the Year selection committee will select the Top 30 nominees, with 10 representing each NCAA division. After again selecting a top nine – three from each division – the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will name the 2016 Woman of the Year.
Those selected as the Top 30 will be recognized Oct. 16 in Indianapolis at the annual Woman of the Year banquet, which will also feature the naming of the 2016 Woman of the Year.
In June, Kamp was named the recipient of the MIAA's Sheila Wallace Kovalchik Scholar-Athlete Award, which recognizes graduating female seniors who have excelled in academics and athletics, as well as displayed outstanding leadership in their respective communities.
Kamp graduated from Calvin this past May with a degree in business marketing while also minoring in studio art. Among her academic accomplishments, Kamp was a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, including twice being selected as not only a first-team honoree, but the Academic All-American of the Year in 2014 and 2015.
On the court, Kamp was a member of Calvin's 2013 NCAA Championship squad, where her 27 kills in the championship match against Cal Lutheran was a match-best effort.
A three-time MIAA all-conference selection, Kamp was the 2012 MIAA Freshman of the Year in volleyball and was a nine-time MIAA Player of the Week. The Knights were MIAA champions all four years Kamp was on the roster.
Kamp's community efforts have included mentoring in Calvin's Girls in Training program, volunteering with Special Olympics for three years and assisting at Degage' Ministries in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Additional information provided by the NCAA and Calvin College.
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