Emmie Starchvick Selected As The NCAA Woman Of The Year Nominee For Goucher College
BALTIMORE, Md. – Emmie Starchvick (Jacksonville, Ore./South Medford) a member of the Goucher College women's golf team, has been nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year.
The NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduating female student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service, and leadership.
The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics manages the nomination process and selections. In 2020, 605 female college athletes, representing all NCAA championship sports across Divisions I, II, and III, were nominated. The Committee on Women's Athletics encourages each member school to honor its top graduating female student-athlete(s) with a nomination.
Starchvick finished out her standout collegiate career by earning her second All-Landmark Conference first-team selection. She finished sixth at the conference championships to help the women's golf team finish second for its best standing at the championships in team history. She carded an 86 in a dual meet with Catholic on April 10 to earn the first medalist honor of her career. The three-year team captain finished in the Top-8 in all five events in 2021 and added two third-place standings to go with her win at Catholic.
Starchvick has finished in the Top-7 in all three championships she participated in at the Landmark Conference Championships for her career. She earned all-conference first-team honors in the inaugural season after finishing fifth in 2018 and was selected to the second team thanks to a seventh-place standing in 2019. Starchvick finished in the Top-5 in seven events and the Top-10 in 13 events in her career.
She was named to the Landmark Conference All-Academic team all three years eligible, and she is part of the first women's golf recruiting class to play all four years at Goucher.
Starchvick graduated with a 3.45-grade point average with a concentration in chemistry in May.
She served as a Goucher College admissions ambassador for the final three years at Goucher and a member of the Food Recovery Network in 2018-19, collecting leftover food from the Goucher dining hall and drove it to a homeless shelter in Baltimore. Starchvick was also a member of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a puppy raising and on-campus club for the last two years. Due to the pandemic, she was unable to help raise a Labrador puppy on-campus scheduled to be placed with a visually impaired person, and she was also trying to increase student participation in the club. She has also volunteered while she is home at the Southern Oregon Humane Society since 2010. She is currently volunteering at a therapeutic equestrian barn.
She plans to attend veterinary school with a focus on equine medicine with acupuncture and chiropractics, or possibly rural large aninal medicine.
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. Then, in September, 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. The Committee on Women's Athletics then selects the winner from the nine finalists.
All school and conference nominees will receive an NCAA certificate and be recognized on ncaa.org. The top 30 honorees will be honored, and the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year winner will be announced this fall.
Starchvick also has an interesting connection to Goucher College. She was unaware that her great grandmother and her great great aunt, who she is named after, graduated from the college in the early 1900s until she received an email from then Goucher head coach Hunter Brown. After that email, Starchvick asked her mother if she had ever heard of the college, and she was told of the connection and the huge impact the Doetsch sisters made at Goucher community and the area. Check out the graphic below for more information.
