SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – North Dakota State women's track & field athlete Amanda Anderson has been selected as the 2021-22 Summit League Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year across all sports.
 
The Summit League Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award is the most prestigious individual honor given by the league each season. It is awarded by a vote of the league's faculty athletics representatives.
 
Anderson is the eighth Bison student-athlete to earn the distinction, and the fifth female winner from NDSU. She joins Whitney Carlson (2010-11), Amy Anderson (2011-12), Morgan Milbrath (2016-17), and Shelby Gunnells (2019-20) as NDSU's women's honorees.
 
Anderson was named the 2022 Summit League Outdoor Championship Most Outstanding Performer after winning the discus and shot put titles. The discus title was the third of her outdoor career (2019 and 2021), while the shot put title backed up her first-place finish in the same event at the 2022 Summit League Indoor Championship.

Anderson, who is NDSU's school record holder in the discus, qualified for the 2022 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds in both that event and the shot put, marking the second consecutive season she achieved that feat. 

In the classroom, NDSU's Female Athlete of the Year carried a 4.0 cumulative GPA throughout her academic career in Fargo. She finished with a bachelor's degree in health education and physical education and a master's degree in leadership in physical education and sport, while earning the SHAPE America Health Education Major of the Year for NDSU.

The St. Francis, Minn., native was named to the 2021-22 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I First Team and also earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors four times.

A nominee for NCAA Woman of the Year, Anderson spent two years on NDSU's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and also worked as substitute teacher in the Fargo Public School District, while logging more than 100 volunteer hours helping out at blood drives and river clean-ups and coaching local youth. Anderson will begin her professional career as a health and physical education teacher at her high school alma mater.


NDSU's Summit League Scholar-Athletes of the Year
 

• 2007-08          Brett Winkelman, men's basketball
• 2008-09          Brett Winkelman, men's basketball
• 2010-11          Whitney Carlson, women's track & field
• 2011-12          Amy Anderson, women's golf
• 2013-14          Tim Colwell, baseball
• 2016-17          Morgan Milbrath, women's track & field
• 2018-19          Elliott Stone, men's cross country and track & field
• 2019-20          Shelby Gunnells, women's track & field
• 2021-22          Amanda Anderson, women's track & field