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The University of Pennsylvania Swimmer Lia Thomas has been nominated for the NCAA’s “Woman of the Year” award.
According to a statement from the NCAA, the University of Pennsylvania has nominated a transgender athlete to recognize female student athletes for this award.
“Established in 1991, this award recognizes outstanding female student athletes in the community, athletics, and scholars throughout their college career, exhausting their qualifications,” the NCAA’s recommendation page states. ..
NCAA member schools have announced that they are “encouraged to celebrate graduated female student athletes by being nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.”
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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Lia Thomas tie fifth in the 200 Freestyle Finals of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the McCorley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia on March 18, 2022. It will react after it is finished.
(Icon Sports Wire via Rich von Bibelstein / Getty Images)
After being recommended by the member schools, their meeting can select up to two candidates.
Thomas, a former swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, won the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship on Thursday at a 500-yard freestyle event.
Her participation College girls swimming She has been controversial nationwide, with some saying she has an unfair advantage over other athletes.
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Ria Thomas, Pennsylvania, awaits qualifying for the Women’s NCAA 500m Freestyle Swimming Championships at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta on Thursday, March 17, 2022.
(AP photo / John Buzzmore)
Riley Gaines, a swimmer at the University of Kentucky who tied fifth with Leah Thomas at the NCAA Swimming Championships, said the majority of women were not happy with the trajectory of women’s sports.
“The majority of us female athletes, or women in general, actually have problems with this, the trajectory of this, how this is going, and how it could end in a few years. “I have a problem with that,” he said in an “Unmuted with Marsha” podcast with Senator Marsha Blackburn of Gaines R-Tenn.
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She mentioned that the NCAA refused to change the rules to protect the competitiveness of women’s sports.
The University of Pennsylvania has also nominated Iuliia Bryzgalova, who plays tennis at school, for the award.
