Women's basketball's Lydia Konstanzer has been selected as the Most Outstanding Female Athlete, Ursinus College announced Saturday as part of Athletic Awards Week. The honor is reserved for the top female student-athlete in the senior class.
Konstanzer is the most decorated player in Ursinus women's basketball history. She is a four-time All-Centennial Conference performer, including first-team laurels her final two years, and is the only two-time All-Mid-Atlantic Region selection in the program's history. Konstanzer was the Centennial Conference and Mid-Atlantic rookie of the year in 2017, and finished second on the school's all-time charts with 1,624 points and 956 rebounds.
Konstanzer holds the all-time record for double-doubles and averaged one this past season, one of only two players in the conference to do so, on the way to finishing 11th in Division III with 16 of them. She was a force from the moment she set foot on campus, averaging 14.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game as a freshman and leaving with career per-game averages of 15.8 points and 9.3 rebounds. This season, she marked new career highs in both categories, pairing 17.1 points with 10.1 boards. Konstanzer was a four-time Centennial Conference player of the week.
Konstanzer is also a standout student, owning a 3.64 cumulative grade-point average and posting a perfect 4.0 during the fall semester. Majoring in Biology with a minor in biostatistics, she is a member of the Brownback-Anders Pre-Health Society and Beta Beta Beta National Honors Society. Konstanzer is a resident advisor on campus and volunteers at Living Branches Nursing Home as well as being actively involved with the Shooting Stars program.