Boise State’s Serena Huchingson Named One of Mountain West’s NCAA Woman of the Year Nominees

The following release information was issued by Boise State earlier last week and information and photo courtesy of Boise State…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Boise State softball player Serena Huchingson has been selected as one of the Mountain West’s nominees for the 2023 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.

Since its establishment in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year program has recognized excellence in academics, athletics, community service, and leadership in graduating female student-athletes. To be eligible, a nominee must have competed and earned a varsity letter in an NCAA-sponsored sport and must have earned her undergraduate degree by the summer of 2023.

Huchingson, a native of Newbury Park, Calif., earned Second Team NFCA All-Pacific Region and Second Team All-Mountain West honors as a senior in 2023. The catcher hit .313 with seven doubles, nine home runs and 30 RBIs and threw out 11 of 28 would-be base-stealers (39 percent) in helping the Broncos to the second regular-season Mountain West title in program history.

As a freshman in 2019, Huchingson made 47 starts in helping Boise State earn an at-large bid to the NCAA postseason. That year’s squad reached the championship game of the NCAA Gainesville Regional, becoming the first team in program history to win an NCAA game and to reach a regional final.

Huchingson also excelled in the classroom in her career, earning Academic All-Mountain West and Mountain West Scholar-Athlete honors five times each in addition to being named an NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete in 2019.

She was extremely active in her community and on campus, logging 107 community service hours in 2022-23 to lead the Boise State athletics department. Huchingson was a three-year member of the Broncos’ Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, spending her last two years on the executive team, and served on the Mountain West’s SAAC for two years. Huchingson was also a member of Boise State’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee. She volunteered at a local hospital, raised money for the Make A Wish Foundation and assisted children from lower-income areas go shopping for new clothes and essentials through Operation School Bell.

Huchingson graduated with a 3.82 GPA in health science studies and will attend Duke University to pursue a nursing degree.