LANCASTER, Pa. – Recent Swarthmore College graduate Supriya Davis '15 of the women's swimming team has been selected as one of two Centennial Conference nominees for the 2015 NCAA Woman of the Year Award, as determined by a vote of the conference's Senior Women Administrators (SWA's). She is one of 51 Division III student-athletes to be selected as a conference nominee and joins Johns Hopkins' Ana Bogdanovski as a representative of the Centennial.

Davis was a two-time All-American in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly and was undefeated in both events in dual meet and Centennial Conference championship competition. She was named the Centennial Conference Most Outstanding Female Performer in 2012 and 2013 and was selected to the All-Centennial Conference First Team a staggering 17 times. Davis was also a member of the 200-yard medley relay teams that captured the conference title and set program, conference, and championship marks in four consecutive years. She holds six individual school records and was also a member of four record-setting relay teams.

Davis, a chemistry and computer science double major from Durham, N.C., also boasts a long list of academic accomplishments. She was named a Capital One Academic All-American in 2014 and made the organization's all-district first team in 2013, 2014, and 2015. A three-time member of the Philadelphia Inquirer Academic All-Area Team, Davis received additional recognition in 2015 when she was named the newspaper's female at-large performer of the year. She is also the recipient of a 2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Grant, which she will use to research and combat tuberculosis in New Delhi, India.

In addition, Davis has been involved with many service endeavors on and off campus. These have included teaching youth swim lessons, volunteering in a hospice and hospital emergency department, and serving as an academic tutor and chemistry mentor for Swarthmore students. Furthermore, she has helped lead activities involving art and physical education with Children and Adults with Disabilities Educational Services (CADES).

Davis becomes the fifth Swarthmore student-athlete to be placed on the national ballot and the third in the past two years as Aarti Rao '14 and Katie Lytle '14 represented the Centennial Conference in 2014.

The Woman of the Year selection committee will select the top 30 honorees – 10 from each division – from the conference nominees. From among those 30 candidates, the selection committee determines the top three in each division and announces the top nine finalists in September. The NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics (CWA) will then vote from among the finalists to determine the 2015 NCAA Woman of the Year. The top 30 honorees will be honored, and the 2015 NCAA Woman of the Year winner will be announced at the annual ceremony in Indianapolis on Sunday, Oct. 18.