Georgia Southern women's soccer standout Simone Timm is one of two nominations for the 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year award put forward by the Sun Belt Conference, the league announced.
Timm joins Marshall track and cross country student-athlete Abby Herring as the league's two nominees for 2024. 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.
Both nominees 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 2024 NCAA Woman of the Year this fall.
Timm paced Georgia Southern with 21 points - on eight goals and five assists - in 2023, as the Eagles tallied a 12-6-1 record, including a seven-match win streak to end the regular season. The 12 wins were the third-most in program history, trailing only the 1996 (13-8) and 2000 (14-5) Georgia Southern clubs. The Toronto, Ontario, native was an All-Sun Belt First Team honoree as a forward in 2023, while earning CSC Academic All-District recognition in 2022 and 2023. Timm was a two-time Sun Belt Commissioner's List honoree (2020-21 and 2021-22) and a one-time Sun Belt Academic Honor Roll recipient (2022-23).
She graduated from Georgia Southern with her bachelor's degree in nursing, maintaining a 4.00 GPA while balancing a rigorous academic and collegiate athletic schedule. In addition to completing over 300 hours of clinical training toward her nursing degree, ranging from adult intensive care to emergency room to hospice, Timm volunteered at the Statesboro Family YMCA Heart Run, Statesboro First United Methodist Church and The Lodge at Bethany during her time in Statesboro.
Simone is the first conference-level nominee for the prestigious award since volleyball standout Moriah Bellissimo was a nominee from the Southern Conference in 2013.
