SAN ANGELO – Angelo State track and field athlete Kami Norton has been named a top 30 nominee for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, the association has announced.

The Woman of the Year award has been given out by the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics for 28 years and celebrates the accomplishments of female college athletes across all NCAA divisions. The goal of the program is to honor the athletics excellence, academic achievement and leadership of outstanding female college athletes.

Norton won NCAA Division II national titles in both the pentathlon and heptathlon during the 2018 track and field season. The senior helped ASU to its highest finish at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships since 2010 with a third-place finish as well as the program's first LSC outdoor title since 2015.

The Rambelles also placed in the top 10 at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships in seventh.  She was an All-American indoors in the 60-meter hurdles and the long jump and added outdoor long jump All-American honors as well. Norton became the fifth female in NCAA Division II since 2009 to win the pentathlon and heptathlon in the same season.

The Albany, Texas, native was the high-point scorer (37.25) at the LSC Outdoor Championships and claimed gold in the heptathlon and the 100-meter hurdles.  At the LSC Indoor meet, Norton won the pentathlon and 60-meter hurdles titles while recording a meet-best 32.50 points. 

She earned several LSC honors in 2018 including Outstanding Female Track Athlete and Female Track Athlete of the Year during indoors, and the David Noble Award (Outstanding Female Field Athlete) and Female Field Athlete of Year for the outdoor season. 

For the second consecutive year, Norton was tabbed the LSC Fred Jacoby Female Academic Athlete of the Year and claimed both Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Academic Athlete of the Year distinction. She capped off her outstanding career by winning the 2018 LSC Female Athlete of the Year award.