Hoover named Region VII top women’s student-athlete
Recent College of Wooster graduate Isabelle Hoover has been named the Division III Commissioner’s Association Region VII Women’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year.
Hoover and the other nine regional winners are now on the ballot for the D3CA Women’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year.
Recent College of Wooster graduate Isabelle Hoover, an NCAA Woman of the Year nominee from the North Coast Athletic Conference and The College of Wooster, has been named the Division III Commissioner’s Association Region VII Women’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year.
Hoover and the other nine regional winners are now on the ballot for the D3CA Women’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year.
Hoover was regularly in publication or chosen for academic presentations during her time at Wooster. The art history and classical languages alumna, who earned a $10,000 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship, gained field experience throughout her undergraduate career.
She spent a summer as an intern in the registrar’s office at The Metropolitan Museum of Art — the largest art museum in the Americas — which included hands-on experience in budgeting, planning, installation and deinstallation of special exhibitions, and uploading information into systems for the museum.
Other academic highlights of note include Hoover’s time as a peer tutor for Greek and Latin courses on campus. She was a research assistant, departmental assistant and teaching assistant within the classic studies department; a research assistant for an art history professor; a health coach through the college’s Wooster Community Care Network; and was a violinist with the Wooster Symphony Orchestra. Hoover was actively involved with the campus Eta Sigma Phi chapter and was an officer for two years.
NCAC Distance Athlete of the Year honors in 2022 headlined Hoover’s cross country and track and field awards portfolio. The four-time NCAC champion earned the conference’s top distance honor following a distance sweep in the 3,000 (10:32.11) and 5,000 meters (17:47.61) at the 2022 indoor conference championships. The distance ace was the NCAC 10,000 meters champion in 2021 (38:00.59) and 2022 (36:51.49).
Overall, Hoover earned 10 all-conference honors including a pair of first-team certificates as a top seven cross country finisher. She helped Wooster to its first runner-up NCAC indoor track and field finish since 1997 in 2022 and its highest NCAC cross country finish since 1998 in 2021. She was a 10-time NCAC Athlete of the Week honoree. Elsewhere, Hoover was a two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree and a four-time member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.
Hoover will begin pursuit of a Master of Philosophy in Art History and Architecture at the University of Cambridge this fall.
Voting for the award was conducted by the commissioners within each of the 10 regions, with the top male and female honoree recognized as finalists for the committee to select the D3CA Men’s Sport and Women’s Sport Student-Athlete of the Year, which will be announced in the coming weeks. Hoover is Wooster’s first regional winner of this award, which is in its second year.
Kevin Smith is director of athletic communication at The College of Wooster.