TOWSON, Md. – The Landmark Conference selects 22 senior scholar-athletes each year to recognize the top student-athlete in each sport based on academics and athletics.
The honorees must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.20 and are selected by a committee of Landmark Conference officers, athletics directors, senior woman administrators, faculty athletic representatives, and sports information directors.
Lily Nowak of the University of Scranton was selected as the conference Women's Tennis Senior Scholar-Athlete. She is the third Royal this academic year to be selected as a Senior Scholar-Athlete, and the fourth women's tennis student-athlete. She joins Emily Walsh (2015-16), Emilia Jakubek (2018-19), and Nashtashia DeNunzio (2019-20).
Nowak is a two-time All-Landmark First Team Singles selection (2022, 2023) and was named to the Second Team in 2021. In doubles action, she was named to the First Team this past spring.
She ends her career ranked second in program history in doubles winning percentage (43-10, .811), fourth in singles winning percentage (42-10, .808), sixth in doubles wins (43) & tied for sixth in singles wins (42). In 2021-22, tied single-season program record with 16 singles victories.
A team captain during her senior year, she helped the Royals to a runner-up finish in the Landmark Women's Tennis Championship in 2021, and make an appearance in the semifinals in both 2022 and 2023. She led Scranton to a 47-31 overall record and a 14-7 mark in conference matches.
Off the court, Nowak graduated from Scranton with a 3.81 grade point average as an occupational therapy major.
She was named to the Scranton Dean's List seven times, the Landmark Academic Honor Roll three times, and the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District team once (2023).
She was a three-year member of the Scranton Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), as well as the American Occupational Therapy Association, Student Occupation Therapy Association, and the University's Emerging Leaders Program (2020-23).
All-Time Senior Scholar-Athletes