Furman’s Anna Morgan announced as SoCon nominee for 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year

Spartanburg, S.C. – The Southern Conference announced Wednesday that Furman women’s golfer, Anna Morgan, will be the conference’s nominee for the NCAA’s 2024 Woman of the Year award.

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 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.

Eligible female student-athletes are nominated by their member school. Each conference office then reviews the nominations from its core member schools (and sponsored sports) and submits its conference nominee(s) to the NCAA. 

Morgan is the first SoCon woman to earn three consecutive Athlete of the Year honors, claiming the Paladins’ 13th SoCon Female Athlete of the Year award. Morgan is Furman’s fifth straight SoCon Female Athlete of the Year, following former teammate Natalie Srinivasan, who won in 2019-20 and went on to play on the Epson Tour, and professional Adidas runner Gabbi Jennings, who claimed the honor in 2020-21.

The Spartanburg, South Carolina, native led the league in stroke average for the third straight season with a 70.1 mark over 33 rounds, which is the lowest single-season stroke average in program history, en route to being named the SoCon Player of the Year for the third straight season. Morgan posted seven top-5 finishes in 11 tournaments, including being the medalist at the SoCon Championship for the second straight time. She also competed in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur for the third year in a row.

Furman’s Edna Hartness Female Athlete of the Year for the third straight year, Morgan earned All-SoCon honors for the fourth straight season. Morgan finished the season ranked No. 17 nationally and represented the United States at the Arnold Palmer Cup this summer. She was a five-time SoCon Player of the Week in 2023-24, extending her league-record to 13 selections, and was the SoCon Player of the Month five times, bringing her career total to nine.

Off the golf course, Morgan graduated with a 3.6 GPA in politics and international affairs. She is a member of the Lambda Pi Eta honor society for communications studies and was named to the CSC Academic All-District Team and WGCA All-America Scholar Team. Morgan is also a member of Kappa Delta sorority, which raised money for the Julie Valentine Center, a nonprofit that provides services to sexual assault and child abuse survivors. Morgan also worked with local Girl Scout troops through Kappa Delta.

In the fall, the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee will identify the Top 30 nominees, 10 from each division, and from there selects three finalists from each division. From the nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics then selects the NCAA Woman of the Year, who is named during the NCAA Convention.

Also Nominated: Jaelynn Elgert (The Citadel Volleyball), Rhyan Connolly (ETSU Women’s Soccer), Kaili Phillips (Chattanooga Softball)