NCAC nominates Geboy for NCAA Woman of the Year

8/6/2025 1:00:00 PM

CLEVELAND -- The North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) announced Wednesday that recent Kenyon College graduate Sydney Geboy, a member of the Owls swimming and diving program, was one of two student-athletes selected as a conference nominee for the prestigious NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

The NCAA Woman of the Year program was established in 1991 and honors the academic achievements, athletics excellence, community service, and leadership of graduating female college athletes from all three NCAA divisions.

Geboy garnered Kenyon's nomination and then emerged from the pool of conference nominees. As the process moves forward, the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee will identify the Top 30 nominees—10 from each division—and then will select the NCAA Woman of the Year, who is honored during an awards presentation at the NCAA Convention.

A four-year NCAA Championship qualifier, Geboy excelled in relay competition and was a valuable member of two national championship teams. She was a 14-time All-American and was an NCAA event champion as part of the Owls' record-setting 200-yard freestyle relay team in 2022. She swam in 20 career NCAA Championship races and placed fifth or better nine times.

Geboy graduated in May with degrees in psychology and sociology. She was a constant on the Kenyon Merit List, was the winner of a Kenyon Distinguished Academic Scholarship Award, and was inducted into honor societies for both psychology and sociology. She twice made the NCAC Academic Honor Roll, was a two-time Academic All-American, as selected by College Sports Communicators, and was a three-time College Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All-American.

Her work ethic in the pool and the classroom spilled over into the community. On campus, she was a four-year member of the Kenyon Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, serving as vice president for one year. She served for three years as a member of the NCAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and was a Kenyon Student Orientation Leader for two years. Geboy also helped with Kenyon's celebration for National Girls and Women in Sports Day, served as a Senior Admissions Fellow, and played a role on Kenyon's Student Council. Off campus, she volunteered with Knox County Head Start and Knox County Special Olympics.

Geboy is Kenyon's sixth student-athlete over the last decade to be named a Woman of the Year nominee by the NCAC. The last to earn the recognition was Emmie Mirus in her senior season of 2022.

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