NEW ORLEANS — The Sun Belt Conference has nominated Katelyn Cartwright (Southern Miss cross country and track & field) and Macie Majoy (Marshall track & field) for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
The NCAA Woman of the Year award was established in 1991 and honors the academic achievements, athletic excellence, community service and leadership of graduating female student-athletes.
“Katelyn and Macie are Sun Belt Conference champions who have thrived academically and served their communities while competing at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics. We’re thrilled to nominate these model Sun Belt student-athletes for this prestigious honor,” said Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Keith Gill.
Cartwright and Majoy will be forwarded to the NCAA Woman of the Year selection committee. It will choose the Top 30 honorees—10 from each division—and then select the nine finalists—three from each division—from those Top 30 honorees, before naming the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year this fall.
Cartwright was a member of Southern Miss’ Sun Belt Conference champion women’s cross country team in 2022, finishing 22nd at the conference meet. She also raced at the NCAA Division I South Region Cross Country Championships. The Hernando, Miss., product competed in track & field for the Golden Eagles, finishing seventh in the distance medley relay and the mile at the Sun Belt Indoor Track & Field Championships and 19th in the 5000 meters at the Sun Belt Outdoor Track & Field Championships. She was also a two-time Conference USA team champion in Indoor Track & Field (2021, 2022) and a Conference USA team runner-up in cross country (2019).
Cartwright graduated from Southern Miss with a degree in biological sciences and minors in chemistry and Spanish. While in Hattiesburg, she served as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) women’s cross country representative, the Vice President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and the Outreach Chair of the Minority Association of Premedical Students.
Majoy was the Sun Belt Conference champion in the pole vault at both the Sun Belt Indoor Track & Field and Sun Belt Outdoor Track & Field Championships during the 2022-23 season—en route to First Team All-Sun Belt honors. The Huron, Ohio, native won nine meets over the course of the season and left the Thundering Herd as the pole vault program record holder for both indoor (4.15m) and outdoor (4.08m) track & field. She was also a three-time All-Conference USA honoree (2020 – Indoor Third Team, 2021 – Indoor Second Team, 2021 – Outdoor Third Team).
Majoy graduated from Marshall with a degree in criminal justice and a minor in cyber forensics. While in Huntington, she served as the President of Alpha Phi Sigma Criminal Justice Honor Society and was presented Marshall’s Student Government Lead of the Year Award for her work leading the organization. Majoy was also recognized as Marshall’s Outstanding Graduate Student by the Criminal Justice Department based on her academic achievements.
Cartwright and Majoy were selected to move forward as the Sun Belt Conference’s nominees for the NCAA Woman of the Year from a pool of eight school nominees that also included Helena Jansen Figueras of App State women’s tennis, Lina Perugini of Coastal Carolina women’s volleyball, Karly Heath of Louisiana softball, Victoria Ortiz of South Alabama softball, Hannah Borden of Southern Miss softball and Amara Anderson of Troy women’s volleyball.