Carly Muise Named NCAA Woman of the Year For State of Rhode Island
BRYANT UNIVERSITY’S CARLY MUISE NAMED NCAA WOMAN OF THE YEAR FOR STATE OF RHODE ISLANDSMITHFIELD, RI
-- Carly Muise, a former four-year standout
softball student-athlete at Bryant University has been 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.
A native of Hanson, Mass., Muise becomes 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. Bryant captured the
school’s first-ever NE-10 Conference Championship and
advanced to the NCAA tournament for the second-straight year in
2005.
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.
The committee of institutional representatives will select 10
finalists from the 51 state winners, based on grade-point average,
athletic achievement and community service. The NCAA Committee on
Women’s Athletics will choose the national winner from among
the 10 finalists at the annual awards dinner October 29 in
Indianapolis, IN. Kelly Albin of UC Davis was recognized as
the NCAA Woman of the Year in 2004.






