Tetschlag, Noelliste Earn NCAA Woman of the Year Nominations

INDIANAPOLIS -- Green Bay’s Kayla Tetschlag and Loyola’s Nicole Noelliste are the Horizon League nominees for the 2011 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

The Woman of the Year Award honors graduating student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, community service and leadership.

Finalists will be invited to Indianapolis in October when the award-winner will be announced.

Tetschlag, co-Horizon League player of the year, was a four-year basketball star for the Phoenix and captain of the team that reached this year’s Sweet Sixteen, a first for both the school and the League. Tetschlag graduated magna cum laude with a 3.84 grade point average, majoring in business administration. She was honored as a 2011 Division I-AAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She also has served on the Horizon League’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She has been involved in a variety of community service projects throughout her four years at Green Bay, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Green Bay.

Noelliste became one of the top sprinters in Loyola history. She won back-to-back Horizon League indoor 400-meter titles in 2010 and this spring, capped her career by winning the 400-meter hurdles while also participating on two champion relay teams. Noelliste graduated with a 3.84 grade point average, majoring in environmental studies, and plans to pursue law school. In 2010, she spent eight days in Haiti providing aid in the wake of the earthquake. Noelliste also served as vice president of Loyola’s student environmental alliance and the Gale Academy Project for Healthy Living.