Jarvis, Porath Nominated For NCAA Woman Of The Year Award
Gymnast Rahdea Jarvis and basketball player Leah Porath are UW-Oshkosh's nominations for the 2022 National Collegiate Athletic Association 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 2022.
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. All nominees who compete in a sport that is not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, will be sent to a separate pool to be considered by a committee. Then, the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee identifies the Top 30 – 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 will be named later this fall.
Jarvis is a two-time All-American who helped UW-Oshkosh win the 2022 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association championship and Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference titles in 2020 and 2022.
Jarvis finished fifth in the country on the uneven bars this past season as the Titans captured the NCGA title with a Division III-record score of 194.100. She also competed on the vault and in the floor exercise at the national meet for UW-Oshkosh, which claimed the third NCGA championship in program history and first since 2007.
Jarvis, who collected her first All-America honor by placing eighth on the vault at the 2019 NCGA Championship, earned five All-WIAC awards during her career - floor exercise (2020), uneven bars (2019, 2022) and vault (2020, 2021).
Jarvis graduated from UW-Oshkosh in May. She compiled a 3.68 cumulative grade point average while majoring in business administration. She was named to the NCGA All-America In Academics Team in 2022 and the Women's Collegiate Gymnastics Association Scholastic All-America Team in 2020 and 2021. Jarvis is a three-time member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.
Jarvis, a Brookfield Central High School alumna, attended the 2020 NCAA Career in Sports Forum and represented UW-Oshkosh at the 2019 WIAC Student-Athlete Leadership Conference. She was named the winner of the 2022 UW-Oshkosh Phyllis Roney Senior Coaches Award.
Jarvis, whose volunteering efforts include assisting at the Oshkosh Food Pantry and mentoring at Oakwood Elementary School in Oshkosh, has held internships with UW-Oshkosh Athletics, Oshkosh Arena and Titan Property Management.
Porath concluded her five seasons at UW-Oshkosh by helping the Titans to 98 wins, two WIAC regular season titles, three WIAC Tournament championships and three NCAA regional titles in three consecutive trips to the Division III postseason.
Porath, the 2020 and 2021 WIAC Player of the Year, garnered All-America recognition from both the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and D3hoops.com in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Porath, a consensus First Team All-American in 2021, is the second player in program history to be selected to All-America teams in three consecutive seasons.
The most decorated player in UW-Oshkosh women's basketball history with six total All-America citations, Porath is the program's fourth all-time leading scorer with 1,405 career points. She scored at least eight points in 72 of her last 73 games played as UW-Oshkosh reached the third round of the Division III Championship in 2019 and 2020 before reaching the Elite Eight in 2022. Porath, a three-time All-WIAC First Team selection, and the Titans were the league postseason champions in 2019, 2020 and 2021 after clinching conference regular season titles in 2019 and 2021.
Porath, one of 11 finalists for the 2022 Jostens Trophy that recognizes the most outstanding Division III player, capped her standout 115-game career with a .481 field goal percentage, including a .381 clip from 3-point range, 559 rebounds and 179 assists. During her final three All-America campaigns, Porath averaged a combined 16.5 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game on the way to helping the Titans produce records of 22-7 in 2022, 9-2 during the abbreviated 2021 season and 20-10 in 2020 since going 26-4 in 2019 and 21-6 during Porath's freshman season in 2018.
A New London High School alumna, Porath owns a 3.67 cumulative grade-point-average while majoring in both supply chain management and marketing. Porath has been on UW-Oshkosh's Dean's List twice and the school's academic Honor Roll on seven occasions. She was named the 2022 WIAC Judy Kruckman Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete Award winner and was recognized on the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll each of the past four years.
Porath has volunteered with the Oshkosh Celebration of Lights and the Fondy Food Pantry in Fond du Lac. She graduated from UW-Oshkosh in May and served internships with Rhino Tool House and Amcor. Porath was named the 2022 female winner of the UW-Oshkosh John Taylor Senior Scholar-Athlete Award.
The 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year was softball player Kendall Cornick from Division II's Augustana University (S.D.).