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After becoming one of five players in the Lycoming College women's basketball team's history to earn three all-conference accolades in her career, senior Erica Lutz was recognized as Lycoming College's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee as the NCAA announced all of the nominees for the prestigious award.
Lutz is the fourth Lycoming basketball player to be nominated, joining Julia Antonelli (2013), Nicole Calella (2017) and Kayla Kline (2020).
A 6-foot forward, Lutz was Lycoming's first D3hoops.com All-Region selection as a senior, earning second-team All-Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic Region honors. The ecology major was also named Lycoming College's Most Outstanding Female Athlete.
An Academic All-MAC and first-team All-MAC Freedom selection this year, Lutz became the first Warrior in program history to lead the conference in both scoring (16.2) and rebounding (11.3) in the same year. She also finished second in the league in field goal percentage (.527), sixth in free throw percentage (.760) and blocked shots (1.2) and seventh in assists (2.5). She finished the season 18th in Division III in rebounding (11.3) and 90th in points per game.
Lutz finished her career with 901 points, crossing the 900-point plateau with her last bucket of the season against Stevenson on March 18. The 6-0 forward became the fourth player in program history to reach 25 career double-doubles and also finished her career with a program-best .527 field goal percentage (382-of-729), second in program history with 138 blocked shots and sixth with 671 rebounds.