It has been just under six months since Kate Endress has played collegiate basketball, but she continues to win awards for her time at Ball State University.
On Wednesday, the NCAA announced that Kate Endress was named Indiana’s NCAA Woman of the Year, an award that goes to student-athlete at an Indiana school in woman’s sports each year.
“To represent Indiana is really something special,” Endress said. “To represent the whole state — it’s a real honor.”
Endress has already been named the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American of the Year, earned a selection to 2005 ESPN The Magazine Women’s Basketball All-America First Team. She graduated Summa cum Laude from BSU’s Honor’s College this past May with a 3.96 GPA as an entrepreneurship major and is currently employed with Citigroup in New York City.
“It’s quite an honor that the NCAA would consider that,” women’s basketball coach Tracy Roller said. “It says a lot about her and her parents and her experience at Ball State.”
Endress will now be one of 51 finalists for the NCAA’s Woman of the Year award, including athletes from 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The 51 candidates will then be whittled down to ten finalists, and the winner will be announced at an awards dinner on Oct. 29 in Indianapolis.
“If anybody wins it over Kate they must be pretty amazing, cause I think what’s she’s done here is pretty great,” Roller said.
Endress said she hopes to attend the ceremony.
Endress ended the 2005 season in the top ten in the NCAA in 3-point percentage and free throw percentage, and led the Mid-American Conference in scoring.
Endress is the fourth Ball State athlete in Ball State history and the first since 1998 to win the award. The other winners were in 1998 field hockey Jen Brown, in 1996 tennis’ Lisa Barg and in 1994 women’s volleyball’s Lisa Hadorn.
“We’re just really excited,” Roller said. “It says a lot about Kate and this university.”
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