College of Wooster alumna Isabelle Hoover has been nominated by the North Coast Athletic Conference for NCAA Woman of the Year and Division III Commissioners Association Women's Sport Student-Athlete of the Year, as announced by the conference office on Friday.
The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient earned NCAC Distance Athlete of the Year honors in 2022, was a four-time NCAC champion, and earned 10 all-conference honors. Her NCAC Athlete of the Year award came on the heels of sweeping the conference titles in the 3,000 (10:32.11) and 5,000 meters (17:47.61) at the 2022 indoor championships. The distance ace captured back-to-back conference crowns in the 10,000 meters in 2021 (38:00.59) and 2022 (36:51.49). In cross country, Hoover earned two first-team All-NCAC certificates as a top-seven conference finisher, and her fourth-place time of 23:54.9 in 2022 marked Wooster's highest finish since W Association Hall of Famer and five-time All-American Katie Wieferich won the individual title in 2006. Hoover, who helped Wooster to its first runner-up NCAC indoor track & field finish since 1997 in 2002 and its highest NCAC cross country finish since 1998 in 2021, was a 10-time conference athlete of the week selection.
Academically, the art history and classical languages alumna earned two College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® honors and five U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic laurels. The four-time NCAC Academic Honor Roll qualifier is an accomplished researcher with multiple academic papers selected for publication or presentation during her time at Wooster. Her signature internship was at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the Americas. At the Met, Hoover aided with filing, archiving, and shipping paperwork, condition reports, and other key legal documents. She assisted with budgeting, planning, installation, and deinstallation of special exhibitions and uploading information into systems for the museum. She previously was an intern at the Toledo Museum of Art.
On campus, Hoover was a peer tutor for Greek and Latin courses. She was a research assistant, departmental assistant, and teaching assistant for the Classical Studies Department, was a research assistant to an art history professor, took part in the College's Wooster Community Care Network, and was a violinist with the Wooster Symphony Orchestra.
Hoover is off to the University of Cambridge this fall where she will pursue a master's of philosophy and architecture degree.