Women's Basketball | 7/14/2020 12:00:00 AM
The NCAA has notified Goldey-Beacom women's basketball graduate Amanda McGrogan (Mount Laurel, NJ) that she is the College's nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year.
McGrogan now goes into the pool of other nominees from the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference and the league will decide which student-athlete goes forward to the national committee. The NCAA in August is scheduled to announce the conference winners.
McGrogan for four seasons was one of the most valuable players for the Lightning and was the backbone for the team's success. She was picked second team All-CACC for the second straight year after closing the 2019-20 campaign 55th in the country with 4.3 assists per game, 77th with an .823 free throw percentage, 95th with 102 free throws, sixth in the league with 16.1 points per game and sixth with 100 assists.
The three-time member of the CACC Academic Honor Roll also was named to the league's 2019 all-tournament team after leading Goldey-Beacom to the conference semifinals. She scored 30 points in Goldey-Beacom's quarterfinal victory at Dominican (NY), highlighting a season in which she led the conference with 17.8 points per game.
McGrogan this season was one of seven for the women's basketball team to make the CACC Academic Honor Roll and one of 48 for the College. The women's basketball squad this season also won the league's Sportsmanship Award.
McGrogan concludes her prolific stint in Pike Creek eighth in school history with 1,299 points, third with 343 assists, fourth with 324 free throws, tied for sixth with 103 three-pointers, seventh with 136 steals and eighth with 436 field goals.
The award requires work in the community and McGrogan certainly has done that. Her favorite volunteer experience was in the summer of 2017, when she spent a week as a camp counselor at a Muscular Dystrophy Association camp for children 6-9 years of age. McGrogan's camper was a 9-year-old boy with Duchenne and a speaking impairment. She said this was "hands down the most rewarding experience of my life and the most fun."
McGrogan also was involved in the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, was a Resident Assistant and a Student Representative of the College Forum Committee. In 2018-19, she helped advertise and run a prom dress donation drive at GBC. These donations were used for the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 5 to host a high school prom for special needs children. Her commitment to this donation drive helped McGrogan win the school's Raymond A. Jackson Scholarship.
She also has assisted in Women in Sports Day at Baltz Elementary School. After participating in a school-wide assembly where they were introduced to the student body, the student-athletes broke into groups and joined the students on their school day. Some attended lunch, recess and participated in math/reading lessons with the students. Just as in the past, the kids were able to speak to the student-athletes and answer any questions they had about being a collegiate athlete.
