NCAA WOMAN OF THE YEAR PROGRAM
MINNEAPOLIS -- It's been quite a year for Augsburg College women's hockey goalie
Erika Allen (SR, Roseville, Minn.).
An
All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference selection. A
D3hockey.com All-West Region honoree. A
CoSIDA Academic All-America and
Academic All-District honoree. A
finalist for Augsburg's Senior Honor Athlete award at the 2016 Auggie Awards.
Now, she's been selected as Augsburg's nominee for the prestigious NCAA Woman of the Year award for 2016, an award that honors athletic and academic achievement, community service and leadership of graduating senior student-athletes from all three NCAA divisions.
Allen is one of a record 517 nominees from NCAA institutions for the award, now in its 26th year. She is one of 169 nominees from NCAA Division III institutions. Conferences select nominees that will advance to the next level of judging, in which the field will be cut to the top 10 nominees from each of the three NCAA divisions. From there, nine finalists (three from each division) are named, and the winner is announced at a ceremony on Oct. 16 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Allen earned
D3hockey.com All-West Region third-team honors and
All-MIAC honors this season, after earning an All-MIAC Honorable-Mention selection last season. A transfer from Bethel, she earned All-MIAC honors there in 2013-14 and MIAC All-Rookie Team honors in 2012-13. An exercise science major with a 4.00 grade-point average, she earned CoSIDA Academic All-America second-team and Academic All-District honors in the Women's At-Large category this season.
In her second season at Augsburg, Allen became one of the top goalies in the conference, finishing with an 11-9-3 record, 1.72 goals-against-average and .931 save percentage. She was 10-5-3 in league play with a .934 save percentage and 1.66 GAA. She finished her senior season
sixth among MIAC goalies in overall GAA and in save percentage, and her 11 wins were third-most among conference goalies. She recorded five shutouts this season -- all in a seven-game span that helped propel the Auggies into the upper half of the league standings.
Including her first two seasons at Bethel (79 total games), she finished with a 39-28-9 career record with 14 shutouts, a 1.74 GAA and .933 save percentage, playing in 4,612:24 of game time. In her two Auggie seasons (42 games), she finished with a 17-16-8 record with eight shutouts, a .932 save percentage and 1.76 GAA. Her save percentage and GAA are both best in school history, while her eight shutouts are tied for the most in school history.
(Note: This release includes information taken from previous news releases on Erika Allen.)
