A recent graduate of Colgate University, Caroline Brawner of Snoqualmie has been nominated for the 2015 NCAA Woman of the Year award. The award is to recognize graduating female college athletes who have excelled in service and leadership in academics and athletics.

Brawner was  named the 2015 Women’s Soccer Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Colgate Athletics; Female Student and Scholar-Athlete of the Year, and has earned the Director of Athletics award for service to Colgate University.

She was also a two-year co-president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, an aide at Earlville-Sherburne Elementary School, and a co-host of the first SAAC Olympics.