Pomona-Pitzer Colleges'
Alexandra Turvey has been named the Region X Women's Sport Student-Athlete of the Year by the Division III Commissioners Association and Chi Alpha Sigma.
Turvey is one of 20 student-athletes were recognized among the winners of the third annual D3CA/Chi Alpha Sigma Regional Student-Athlete of the Year awards. Chi Alpha Sigma, a valued partner of the D3CA, is in its inaugural year as presenting sponsor of the regional awards. She will advance to the national ballot for consideration for 2023-24 D3CA Men’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year and Women’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year, which will be announced next month.
Turvey is a 21-time CSCAA All-American who swam on a pair of national champion relays and finished runner-up in three individual events at the 2024 NCAA Championship. Also a two-time Canadian Olympic Trials qualifier, she earned three SCIAC Women’s Swimmer of the Year honors and currently holds eight SCIAC records. She will be pursuing an eight-year dual-graduate MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School and MIT, having conducted research in a genomics computational biology lab and at Children’s Hospital. She was the NCAA Elite 90 winner in 2023 - only the second individual in conference history - and was awarded a Walter Byers Graduate Scholarship upon graduation. She was named the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for swimming & diving in 2024.
“Chi Alpha Sigma is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the DIIICA Student-Athlete of the Year awards,” said Kellen Wells-Mangold, executive director of the National College Athlete Honor Society. “The mission of Chi Alpha Sigma aligns very well with that of the DIIICA, which makes this a natural partnership to celebrate some of the most outstanding student-athletes in college athletics for their excellence in competition, the classroom, and the community.”
Conferences were permitted to submit two nominations for each award if at least one of the nominations was an international student/ethnic minority. Graduating seniors were the only student-athletes eligible for this award. Selection criteria for the awards included considerations based on academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership and a personal statement submitted by each nominee.
Voting was conducted by the commissioners within each of the ten regions, with the top male and female honoree recognized as finalists for the Awards Committee to select the Division III Commissioner’s Association Men’s Sport and Women’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year.
ABOUT D3CA
The Division III Commissioners Association (DIIICA) officially became a stand-alone organization in January 1992. The focal point of the DIIICA is for the membership to learn together and share with each other. Division III commissioners are unique in what they do and need each other to grow. In order to achieve this goal, the Association works closely with affiliated organizations such as the NCAA, NACDA, NADIIIAA, NACWAA, and the Division III Independents as well. The blending of those groups creates a national synergy that allows all memberships to work in concert to improve communications and ultimately, service student-athletes.
ABOUT CHI ALPHA SIGMA
Chi Alpha Sigma is the first, and only, nonprofit organization that was established to recognize four-year college student-athletes who excel both on and off the field of competition. Founded in 1996 by then DePauw University head football coach, Nick Mourouzis, Chi Alpha Sigma continues to provide outstanding student-athletes with an opportunity to become connected within a fraternal association that aligns their educational and athletic successes for a lifetime. More than 200 of the 360-plus active Chi Alpha Sigma chapters nationwide are NCAA Division III institutions.
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