From 535 school nominees, 153 college athletes have been named conference-level nominees for the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
 
Chattanooga women's soccer graduate Chloe Arnold earned that distinction from the Southern Conference along with ETSU track and field athlete Atlantis Warren.
 
Arnold led Chattanooga to its best finish in program history in her senior campaign. She earned her second All-Conference selection in 2020 and finished in the Top Five at UTC for scoring and goals scored. She was the SoCon Freshman of the Year in 2017 and a Top Drawer Soccer Top 100 Freshman.
 
The Bristol, Tenn., native graduated with honors in April 2021 with a degree in Civil Engineering.
 
Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award is rooted in Title IX and recognizes graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their NCAA eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.
 
The nominees represent student-athletes from 18 different sports spanning all three NCAA divisions. Of those nominated, 57 nominees competed in Division I, 36 in Division II and 60 in Division III.
 
Conferences can recognize two nominees if at least one is a woman of color or international student-athlete. All nominees who compete in a sport not sponsored by their school's primary conference, as well as associate conference nominees and independent nominees, were placed in a separate pool to be considered by a selection committee. Three nominees from the pool were selected to move forward in the process with the conference nominees.
 
The Woman of the Year Selection Committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will now choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division — from the conference-level nominees. The Top 30 honorees will be announced in September. The selection committee will determine the top three honorees in each division from the Top 30, and the nine finalists will be announced this fall. From those nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics then will choose the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year.