Bryant's Carly Muise Honored at NCAA Woman
of the Year Awards Dinner Friday
SMITHFIELD, RI -- Former softball standout Carly Muise was one
of 51 student-athletes from across the country honored at
the annual NCAA Woman of the Year Awards
Dinner.
Muise, a 2005 graduate and native of Hanson, Mass.
was recently named the NCAA Woman of the Year for the State of
Rhode Island. The NCAA Woman of the Year recognizes
outstanding female student-athletes who have excelled in academic
and community leadership.
Muise is the second Bryant student-athlete to be honored as Woman of the Year from the state of Rhode Island. Volleyball standout Meribah Dean was selected in 1996.
Chosen by a committee of representatives from member institutions,
29 of the 2005 state honorees are from Division I, while 16
represent Division II and six from Division III. All
represent 15 different sports. She is the only female
student-athlete from the state of Rhode Island representing all
divisions.
A 2005 graduate of Bryant, Muise was a four-year letterwinner with
the Bulldog softball team, earning First Team All-Northest-10
Conference honors this past spring with a .304 batting average and
.980 fielding percentage at second-base.
A standout student-athlete, Muise was one of just 33 softball student-athletes nationwide to earn Academic All-America honors in 2005.
In addition, she is a four-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and Northeast-10 Conference Scholar-Athlete. This past spring, Muise was named Bryant’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year with a 3.93 grade point average in Applied Actuarial Mathematics.
