REDLANDS, Calif. – Hannah Jugar (Chula Vista, Calif.) of the University of Redlands Women's Golf team was selected by the SCIAC as one of the league's two nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award and the D3 Commissioner's Association Women's Sports Student-Athlete of the Year, the conference office announced this past week.
The SCIAC also nominated Caroline DelVecchio of the Claremont-M-S Women's Track & Field team for both awards, which recognize graduating female student-athletes who have distinguished themselves throughout their collegiate careers in the areas of academic achievement, athletics excellence, service and leadership.
Jugar finished the 2022-23 season with a scoring average of 73.69, the second lowest in program history and only 0.08 off her program record 73.61 set in 2021-22. She finished runner-up at the NCAA Division III National Championships and became just the second Bulldog to be named a four-time WGCA All-American.
In her four seasons, Jugar was named 1st Team All-SCIAC four times and helped guide the women's golf program to fourth, second, and sixth-place finishes at the National Championships. In addition to holding the top-two records for single season scoring average, she also holds the school record for career scoring average with a 74.057, the lowest by 1.217 strokes. A four-time WGCA All-American Scholar, Jugar graduated in May with a degree in Environmental Science and a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.770. She earned Magna Cum Laude Honors and the 2023 Roger Tomlinson Undergraduate Award for Excellence in GIS in 2023 and made the CAS Dean's List in Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, and Spring 2023.
Last year, she participated in the University of Redlands Summer Science Research Program. While working with the San Bernardino National Forest – Bearpaw Reserve, she helped to analyze wildlife populations and vegetation succession after the 2020 El Dorado Fire by using GIS remote sensing, wildlife camera installation, ArcGIS Field Maps, and measuring canopy coverage, height, slope, aspect, soil moisture, basal area, and tree diameter at breast height (DBH).
By earning one of the SCIAC's nominations, Jugar will now advance through to the next round of voting, when the top 30 will be selected (10 from each division) in October.