NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The Atlantic 10 Conference chose its NCAA Woman of the Year nominees and selected University of Dayton graduate student Araion Bradshaw as one of the two representatives.

Bradshaw is the point guard with the women's basketball program and entering her fifth year at UD this fall. The Boston, Mass. native has helped lead the Flyers to four A-10 Championship titles.

Bradshaw is a graduate student with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering, master's in engineering management, and working on her master's in business management. She is the reigning Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year and guided the Flyers to the 2020-21 A-10 regular season championship. Bradshaw picked up All-Defensive Team honors for the second straight year and was named Third Team All-Conference.

Off the court, she has been just as impactful. She started the Athletes Driving Change organization that is a group of minority A-10 women's basketball players focused on the mission to "promote permanent change toward equality through the voices of Atlantic 10 female athletes using a unified and inclusive platform." She earned the Social Justice Award at this year's R.U.D.Y.S. Banquet for her work on equality and education. Bradshaw is a passionate and vocal leader in the community and has represented the University with the upmost integrity.

"Congrats to AB on such an unbelievable honor," said head coach Shauna Green. "When I think about this award, I cannot think of anyone more deserving for this. Every single thing you do on and off the floor, you strive to be elite. Your work ethic, your passion, your persistence definitely defines and embodies what an elite student-athlete is about and what a Dayton Flyer is about. Congrats and we are so, so proud of you."

Bradshaw joins Saint Joseph field hockey student-athlete Jordan Olenginski as the A-10 representatives. The last UD student-athlete selected as the A-10 nominee was back in 2016 with women's soccer's Ashley Campbell.

One of the most prestigious NCAA awards, the NCAA established the Woman of the Year Award in 1991 to celebrate the achievements of women in intercollegiate athletics. Now in its 31st year, the NCAA Woman of the Year award honors graduating female college athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, service and leadership throughout their collegiate careers.

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