Lance Pilch always wanted to be a pilot, but there was no guarantee he would reach that goal when he enrolled at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Still, he was happy to dedicate himself to a larger cause.

Hailing from Troy, Michigan, David Morrow never dreamed of attending an Ivy League school, let alone becoming a college athlete.

Jason Elam may be best known as a longtime star NFL kicker and two-time Super Bowl champion with the Denver Broncos, but he has devoted himself to a higher calling.

Nnenna Lynch, a seven-time All-America distance runner and national champion in the 3,000 meters at Villanova, long had a sense of how she wanted to contribute away from the track.

The son of an aeronautical engineer, Jim Hansen always believed he would design airplanes, which led him to study aerospace engineering at Colorado.

Julie Foudy grew up a Southern California sports fanatic in the 1970s. The Mission Viejo, California, native watched the Los Angeles Lakers and Rams, but her favorite sport wasn’t on television.

Thirty-two Division II member schools will be honored as part of the Presidents’ Award for Academic Excellence program for achieving four-year Academic Success Rates of 90 percent or higher. This is the seventh year of the program.

The NCAA Committee on Sportsmanship and Ethical Conduct is honoring Julia Reininga, current associate athletics director and head women’s volleyball coach at Southern Wesleyan University, as the 2016-17 recipient of the Bob Frederick Sportsmanship Award. The award recognizes her careerlong demonstration of sportsmanship as a coach and associate athletics director.

Bernard Franklin will close the books on his distinguished time at the NCAA national office in November.

A record 543 female college athletes have been nominated by NCAA member schools for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award.