Story Links MEDFORD, MA (January 17, 2025) – Sophia DiCocco, a 2024 Tufts University graduate and All-American pitcher on the Jumbo softball team, was in Nashville on Wednesday night where she was recognized at the NCAA Woman of the Year celebration event.DiCocco returns to the team for an extra year of eligibility in 2025 while […]
MEDFORD, MA (January 17, 2025) – Sophia DiCocco, a 2024 Tufts University graduate and All-American pitcher on the Jumbo softball team, was in Nashville on Wednesday night where she was recognized at the NCAA Woman of the Year celebration event.DiCocco returns to the team for an extra year of eligibility in 2025 while studying in the Tufts School Of Engineering Graduate Program with a focus on Innovation & Management.The Woman of the Year award was created in 1991 to recognize graduating female student-athletes who have distinguished themselves in athletics, academics, leadership and community service. Watch this video honoring the Top 30 honorees for the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year Award …Off the field at Tufts, DiCocco served as an executive board member of a campus group promoting cancer outreach, organizing events and fundraisers to help further research. She has also tutored and coached middle and high school students. In the community, she has worked as a horse caretaker for Stirrup Fun Stables Rescue to care for neglected, abandoned and abused horses and as a volunteer for the Borgen Project, advocating for policies to reduce global poverty and increase international affairs funding. She has also organized softball camps, as well as games to raise awareness and funds for various causes, and led National Girls & Women in Sports Day activities.Selected from a record-breaking 627 nominees submitted by member schools — a group that was then narrowed to 168 nominees at the conference level — the Top 30 honorees included 10 from each of the three NCAA divisions. The honorees represented 15 sports and a variety of academic majors.In October, DiCocco was selected as one of the Top 30 honorees for the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year Award from an initial pool of 627 nominees. All 30 Woman of the Year honorees were invited to the award ceremony which was held as part of the NCAA Convention at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville on Wednesday night.Alexandra Turvey, a 21-time All-American Pomona-Pitzer swimmer who majored in biology at Pomona College, is the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year.As an ace pitcher on head coach Lauren Ebstein‘s Jumbo softball team, DiCocco has received National Fast-pitch Coaches Association All-America honors twice, along with multiple NFCA All-Region selections and first-team all-conference honors. She has also earned a Rawlings Gold Glove Award two consecutive years.Academically, she graduated summa cum laude with an international relations degree, and earned College Sports Communicators Academic All-America honors. From Bozrah, Connecticut and Norwich Free Academy, DiCocco in 20202 received the Sidney E. Frank Memorial Scholarship which is awarded to a graduating senior of high academic ability who will attend one of the top colleges or universities in the country.This release contains information provided by the NCAA.–JUMBOS–
“These honorees represent the very best of what it means to be a student-athlete, and the character-building potential that is inherent in all athletic pursuits. They have distinguished themselves among the many thousands of collegiate athletes who find and surpass their limits every day on the journey to becoming their best selves, not just in sport, but in life,” said Marion Terenzio, chair of the Woman of the Year Selection Committee and president of SUNY Cobleskill. “I congratulate all of the remarkable women named to the Top 30 and applaud their demonstrated ability to create positive change in themselves and in the world around them.”
