COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—San José State women’s golfer and graduate Kajsa Arwefjäll has been selected as one of two Mountain West nominees for the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Since its establishment in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year program has recognized excellence in academics, athletics, community service, and leadership in graduating female student-athletes. 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 the summer of 2024. Arwefjäll and Fresno State track and field thrower Amelia DiPaolo will represent the MW.
Arwefjäll capped off her five-year SJSU career with her second straight second-team All-America citation and first career individual MW title, a three-stroke win at the 2024 MW Women’s Golf Championship. Arwefjäll, who was also named the MW Player of the Year for the second straight season in 2024, was a five-time All-MW performer, earning first-team recognition in each of her final four seasons. She made four NCAA Championship appearances in her career and was an All-America Honorable Mention in 2021-22.
The Hollviken, Sweden, native has also competed on the national and international stages. In addition to playing in the 2023 and 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateurs, Arwefjäll represented Sweden at the 2023 World Amateur Team Championships. She also played in the 2023 Women’s Amateur Championship, the 2022 Arnold Palmer Cup and the 2021 Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship and European Ladies Amateur Championship.
In the classroom, Arwefjäll graduated summa cum laude in May with a 3.861 GPA in business administration/international business. She earned WGCA Scholastic All-American, Academic All-Mountain West and MW Scholar-Athlete honors in each of her five seasons and was a CSC Academic All-District selection in 2024.
Arwefjäll used golf to contribute to the community throughout her career, including five years of teaching the sport at clinics for First Tee in the Bay Area. She also volunteered for four years with the Bay Area Women’s Sports Initiative, an after-school sports program for girls in the community, worked a children’s clinic at the 2023 ANNIKA Intercollegiate, and worked a breast cancer awareness golf clinic. Additionally, Arwefjäll helped collect feminine products for three years as part of the San José State SAAC’s annual feminine product and sports bra drive and read at elementary schools.
A record 627 nominees for NCAA Woman of the Year were submitted by schools this year. Conference offices could nominate up to two student-athletes from among their school nominations if at least one was an international student-athlete or student-athlete of color.
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 conference-level nominees. The Top 30 honorees will be announced in the fall. The selection committee will then determine the top three honorees in each division from the Top 30 to comprise the group of nine finalists, later in the fall. From those nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will choose the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year. The honorees will be celebrated at the Woman of the Year Award Presentation at the NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tenn., in January.
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