Aurora University Athletics

Aurora University and the athletic department announced the 2023-2024 recipient of the Spartan Woman of the Year Award. The honor has been bestowed upon recent AU graduate Avary Henry. The Spartan Woman of the Year award honors a graduating female student-athlete athletes who has exhausted her eligibility and distinguished herself throughout her collegiate careers in academics, athletics, service and leadership.

With being the AU Woman of the Year, Henry joins a distinguished list of female student-athletes from NCAA conferences and independent schools who have nominated female student-athletes for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award. These women represent college athletes spanning all three NCAA divisions.

In her AU career, Avery received numerous awards for her performance on and off the golf course. She was named a Northern Athletics Collegiate All-Conference Player multiple times, the NACC Freshman of the Year and was a NCAA Elite 90 nominee multiple times.