WILKES-BARRE, PA (August 4, 2025) -- On Monday morning, Kin'gs College announced its institutional nominees for its 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year Award this August. Among the pair of institutional nominees was women's ice hockey senior Syd Dahl.

Since 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year program has recognized graduating female student-athletes for excellence in academics, athletics, community service, and leadership throughout their college careers.

Dahl, a four-year member of the King's women's ice hockey program, earned her bachelor's degree in sociology and environmental studies, graduating magna cum laude with a 3.76 GPA and as an inductee into the Aquinas Honor Society. She has collected four MAC Academic Honor Roll recognitions, as well as a CSC Academic All-District ® nod in 2023 and 2025, Academic All-MAC honors in 2023, and UCHC All-Academic Team accolades for three seasons. Additionally, she was named to the MAC Winter Sportsmanship team this past year.

In competition, Dahl will finish her career as the best goalie in women's ice hockey history. She finished with single-season records in wins, saves, save percentage, and goals against average as well as the career record holder for wins, saves, save percentage, and goals against average. The Colorado Springs, Co. native tops the single-game record for saves with 79 against Nazareth in 2023 and also finished seventh all-time in career games played with 79 in net. For her efforts, Dahl was recognized as an All-MAC Honorable Mention in 2021-22 and an All-MAC Second Team recipient in 2022-23 and earned four weekly honors between the MAC and the UCHC.

Dahl continuously provided a clear example of what it means to be a King's student-athlete and college graduate. Outside of her athletic career, Dahl was an active member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in the last two National Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) Clinic, weekly basketball practices, and park clean ups. She also served as the Environmental Club President and participated in the Wyoming Valley Walk-a-Thon, Pre-Law Park Clean Up, City Serve, and the Weinberg Food Bank projects.
 
The Woman of the Year Selection Committee, made up of representatives from the NCAA membership, will choose the Top 30 honorees — 10 from each division — from the conference-level nominees. The Top 30 honorees will be announced in October. The selection committee will then determine the top three honorees in each division from the Top 30, and the nine finalists will be announced in November. From those nine finalists, the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics will choose the 2025 NCAA Woman of the Year. The honorees will be celebrated at the Woman of the Year Award Ceremony at the NCAA Convention in Phoenix in January.