Katie Burt Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College women's ice hockey alumna Katie Burt has been nominated for the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, the NCAA announced Thursday. The NCAA Woman of the Year award, established in 1991, honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.

The nominees competed in 20 different women's sports across all three NCAA divisions, including 251 from Division I, 131 from Division II and 199 from Division III. Burt is one of 12 women's ice hockey student-athletes nominated for the award, four of whom skated at the Division I level.

Burt, who recently signed with the Boston Pride in the National Women's Hockey League, set a new benchmark for goaltenders, not only at Boston College, but nationally at the NCAA level. She closed her stellar career as the NCAA's career wins leader, backing BC to a record 121 victories in her time in Chestnut Hill. She also anchored the Eagles' defense to nine championship titles: four straight Hockey East regular-season crowns (2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18), three Beanpots (2016, 2017, 2018) and two Hockey East Tournament titles (2016, 2017).

Her name will be etched in the NCAA record book for years to come after finishing her career among the NCAA leaders in every career goaltending category, including wins, winning percentage (fifth), shutouts (fifth), goals against average (tied for ninth), saves (12th) and save percentage (tied for 13th). Burt also holds the Hockey East career records in wins, GAA, minutes played, shutouts, and is in the top 10 in save percentage (tied for second) and saves (ninth). Burt's name sits atop the Eagles' goaltending career records in every category except saves, in which she is second.

As a senior in 2017-18, Burt played every minute of every game – a first for an Eagles' goaltender – and set the program record for saves in a season with 1,038. For the third time in her career, she won at least 30 games as the Eagles remained ranked in the nation's Top 3 for almost the entire season.

A Second-Team Hockey East All-Star and the winner of the Bertagna Award as the Beanpot's best goaltender in 2017-18, Burt was a two-time Hockey East Player of the Month and a five-time Hockey East weekly award winner as a senior.

Conferences will now select up to two nominees each from the pool of school nominees. Then, the Woman of the Year selection committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees – 10 from each division. From the Top 30, the selection committee determines the top three honorees from each division and announces the nine finalists in September. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then chooses the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year from those nine. The Top 30 honorees will be celebrated and the 2018 NCAA Woman of the Year will be announced at the annual award ceremony Oct. 28 in Indianapolis.

Katie Burt Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year

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