Recent Brooklyn College graduate Gianna Gotti has been named an NCAA Woman of the Year nominee. A two-year member of the BC women’s basketball team, Gotti joins four other campus nominees from the City of New York Athletic Conference. Gotti adds the most recent honor to a number of prestigious postseason awards this year including CUNYAC Player of the Year.
Also accomplished off the basketball court, Gotti graduated with a 3.5 GPA as a communications major. In addition, during her collegiate career she has served as member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee, an intern in the Department of Athletics, and a youth leader for a nonprofit organization. She has future aspirations of attending law school.
“As women, our most valuable quality lies not in the accolades or awards we personally achieve, but in the way we impact the lives of other women around us,” Gotti said, commenting on the significance of the nomination in a prepared statement. “I can finally say that I am proud of myself. Not because of awards, championships or MVPs, but because in pursuing what I love, I was able to positively impact the lives of other young women around me. At the end of the day, to be able to inspire is the greatest accolade of them all.”
A record-breaking 619 female student-athletes were nominated by NCAA member schools for consideration of the 2023 Woman of the Year award. The average GPA of the nominee pool is 3.76.
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Pratt Institute student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom, as a department-high 104 Cannoneers were recently announced on the 2022-23 Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.
The All-Academic Team honors student-athletes in one or more C2C championship sports that attain a 3.20 GPA for the academic year.
Since their first appearance on the list in the 2020-21 season, Pratt has increased the number of student-athletes…
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