Lane Named SCAC Woman of the Year Finalist

SUWANEE, Ga. - Austin College women's soccer player Kenedie Lane has been named one of six finalists for the 2024-25 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Woman of the Year Award, the league office has announced.

Lane, a Frisco native who graduated this spring with a degree in molecular and cellular biology, was a three-time All-SCAC selection and during the 2024 campaign put in one of the strongest seasons in goal in program history, finishing at or near the top of the leaderboard in every goalkeeping statistical category in the conference, including boasting a 0.76 goals-against-average. She was named the Gene Day Award winner this year, an honor that goes to the top female student-athlete at Austin College, in addition to being named the Charles "Bo" Miller Senior Academic Excellence Award winner as the senior female student-athlete with the highest grade-point-average.

Lane has been named to the College Sports Communicators All-District team three times, and is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and the Chi Alpha Sigma National Student-Athlete Honor Society. She's also a member of the Beta Beta Beta Biological Honor Society, as well as the Sigma Delta Pi National Collegiate Spanish Honor Society. Lane was a member of Austin College's Dean's List each semester of her four-year career, as well as being a four-time SCAC Academic Honor Roll honoree.

A two-time team captain, Lane was also a three-time SCAC Defensive Player of the Week, and was named the Carole Lomangino Award winner as the women's soccer program's most valuable player for the 2024 season. She's also served on Austin College's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and worked with the RooBound Youth Soccer Camp, as well as Frisco FastPacs, Insider's Guide to College Presentation, and Court-Appointed Special Advocates for Children.

Lane also served as a Cell Biology Lab Teaching Assistant while at Austin College, and has done further work with the Sherman Food Bank, A Small Kindness, Sneed Prairie Restoration Project, Feed the City, and Wreaths Across America. She also served as a First-Year Seminar Peer Mentor at Austin College, and was the Peggy Redshaw and Jerry Lincecum Endowed Scholarship Recipient for Outstanding Student in Biology.

The SCAC Woman of the Year Award winner will be announced later this month, with that individual moving on for consideration as the 2024-25 NCAA Division III Woman of the Year. Two previous Austin College student-athletes have been named the SCAC Woman of the Year, with former volleyball standout Shelby Eaves winning in 2014 and basketball star Ally Longaker winning in 2021.