Women's Basketball's Meghan Creighton Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year Honor

INDIANAPOLIS - Drexel women's basketball standout Meghan Creighton has been nominated to receive the NCAA's prestigious Woman of the Year award, the governing body announced on Tuesday. Creighton is one of a record 544 nominees from across the NCAA's three divisions, covering all of its sports.

Creighton has starred for the Dragons since the 2012-13 season, and was the final remaining player who was a part of the 2013 WNIT championship team, the only postseason tournament title won by a Philadelphia Division I women's basketball program. Creighton set the school's all-time record for games played and started (142), and was on the court for a program-record 88 victories during her time in University City. As a senior this past season, Creighton was named a Third Team All-CAA performer after starting all 33 games for Drexel and leading the team with 89 three-pointers and 120 assists while averaging 10.3 points per game. She also led the CAA and was tenth nationally among all Division I players with a .441 three-point percentage, and set a CAA and Drexel record with 10 three-pointers in a win over UNCW on Feb. 12, the most threes hit by any Division I player in a game this year.

Creighton closed out her stellar career at Drexel ranked second on the school's all-time assist list with 557 and third on Drexel's all-time list with 264 three-pointers. She became just the fourth player in CAA history to record 1,000 career points, 500 career assists and 400 career rebounds.

Off the court, Creighton was even more impressive. Currently a graduate student working on a Master's in sport coaching leadership after earning a bachelor's degree in finance, Creighton is a three-time CAA All-Academic selection. Following the 2016-17 campaign, she was named the CAA Scholar Athlete of the Year and the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Performer of the Year. As a junior in 2015-16, Creighton earned the CAA's Dean Ehlers Leadership Award for her efforts on the court, in the classroom and in the community where she volunteered for a number of charitable organizations and soup kitchens. She followed that up as a senior by creating Assisting Others, a program she devised to give back through her play on the court. She ultimately raised over $20,000 through pledges and donations while dishing out a team-best 120 assists in leading the Dragons to a 22-11 record, their third-most wins in a single-season in program history.

Creighton is one of 544 nominees from around the country to be nominated for the NCAA's Woman of the Year award this year. There are four pillars of the Woman of the Year award: academics, athletics, service and leadership. Of the 544 nominees, 229 are from the Division I ranks. Following Tuesday's announcement, Creighton's next hurdle will come in July as every NCAA conference selects up to two official nominees. From that pool of conference nominees, the Woman of the Year Selection Committee will pick the Top 30 honorees in early September, with 10 women being chosen from each division. Later that month, nine finalists (three per division) will be announced, and the winner will be revealed at a banquet at the JW Marriott in Indianapolis on Oct. 22, with all Top 30 honorees invited to attend.

Dragons Calendar.

Women's Basketball's Meghan Creighton Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year Honor

Players Mentioned

Meghan Creighton

Drexel University Athletics