BEVERLY, Mass. – Endicott softball student-athlete Adrianna Favreau '21 (Tewksbury, Mass.) has been chosen as Endicott's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee.
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in academics, athletics, service, and leadership.
Favreau and University of New England's Jenna Pannone (Prospect, Conn.) are now eligible to be selected as the Commonwealth Coast Conference's (CCC) nominee by the league's Senior Woman Administrators, which will be announced later this month.
From there, Conference nominations are forwarded to the NCAA Woman of the Year Selection Committee, which identifies the top 10 honorees in each of the three NCAA divisions. Of 30 honorees, the selection committee then determines the three finalists in each division for a total of nine finalists.
The Committee on Women's Athletics will select the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year from the nine finalists. At an award ceremony on October 17 in Indianapolis, the Top 30 honorees will be celebrated, and the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year will be named.
Over 220,000 women are competing in college sports, and the NCAA received 535 nominations for this prestigious award.
Favreau recently graduated from Endicott with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology and biotechnology and a 3.83 cumulative grade point average (GPA).
Favreau, who has been accepted into the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts Veterinary, has compiled several academic awards during her career at The Nest including three Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Academic All-Conference selections, a National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-America Scholar-Athlete award, the 2020-21 Endicott Senior Scholar-Athlete award, multiple Dean's List honors, and membership into the Phi Sigma and Mortar Board National Honor Societies.
She also has served as a peer tutor (CRLA certified) in the Tutoring and Writing Center, was a member of the EC L.E.A.D. (Leaders of the Endicott Athletics Department) program and the softball program's Team IMPACT Leadership Team.
Meanwhile, Favreau's internship experiences include time spent at the Northborough Canine Rehabilitation & Fitness Center (rehab assistant), New England Wildlife Center, Woburn Animal Hospital, MSPCA, and Shawsheen Animal Hospital.
Her internship experience with the New England Wildlife Center was documented on www.ecgulls.com here: Adrianna Favreau '21 New England Wildlife Center Internship.
Favreau's learning outcomes during those internships included performing hydrotherapy and fitness exercises for canines; learning anatomy and physiology; adaptive care; performing procedures such as suturing, x-rays, tube feeding, wound changing, etc.; performing vaccinations, blood draws, blood tests, and cytology lab work; observations of animal surgeries and ultrasound procedures; preparing, performing, and documenting general check-ups; Next-Gen sequencing; cell transformation; gel electrophoresis & PCR; hydrotherapy.
Athletically, the 2021 CCC Player of the Year slashed .486/.581/.889 (.avg/.obp/.slg) this season in 24 games played (all starts, 22 at second base). Favreau collected 35 hits (7 2B, 2 3B, 6 HR), drove in 32 runs, scored 33 times, and went 3-for-3 in stolen base attempts. Nationally, among her NCAA Division III peers, Favreau ranked No. 13 in slugging percentage and No. 20 in RBI per game (1.43) in 2021.
As for her career stats (2018-21), Favreau posted a .427/.518/.724 slash line in 100 games played (all starts). She also registered 89 runs, 125 hits (24 2B, 9 3B, 15 HR), 88 RBI, 53 walks, and 10 stolen bases on 11 attempts.
Favreau currently ranks first all-time in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, and triples (tied).
Her other athletic achievements include three CCC All-Conference selections (two first team honors), one All-Region award, CCC Rookie of the Year accolades in 2018, and multiple CCC Player and Rookie of the Week honors.
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(Photo Credit - David Le '10)
