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

An NCAA committee has selected Kylie Klotzbach, a member of the Rollins women’s swimming and diving team, and Soren Frykholm, a member of the men’s soccer team at Colorado College, as recipients of the 2017 Jim McKay Scholarships.

An NCAA committee has selected two college athletes as recipients of the 2017 Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship. George Bugarinovic, who has a bachelor’s degree in public health and natural sciences from Johns Hopkins, played basketball, and Nandini Mehta, who graduated from Northwestern with a bachelor’s degree in economics and international studies, was a soccer player.

Student-athletes at George Washington and Georgian Court have earned the 2017 NCAA Team Works Helper Helper Community Service Competition award for their community outreach efforts.

On matters of ethnic diversity and inclusive hiring in athletics, perhaps no one speaks more boldly or authoritatively than Richard Lapchick.

Julian Capel is the 2016 Dr. Dave Pariser Faculty Mentor Award winner.

Joan Cronan has been named the first recipient of the newly established NCAA President’s Pat Summitt Award. GETTY IMAGES Joan Cronan, former women’s athletics director at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has been named the first...

Grant Hill has been named the 2017 recipient of the NCAA President’s Gerald R. Ford Award, which honors an individual who has provided significant leadership as an advocate for college sports.

Twenty-four schools and one conference have been named finalists for the 2017 Division II Award of Excellence, an accolade recognizing positive campus and community engagement events hosted during the past year.