Galloway, N.J. – Stockton University senior
Charlotte Leon (Northport, N.Y./Northport) has been chosen as the NJAIAW Woman of the Year for the Ospreys. Today, Leon will be honored as part of a
virtual awards ceremony presented by the New Jersey Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. The event is being held in conjunction with the 35th Annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day.
Leon is a three-sport athlete at Stockton who competes in volleyball in the fall, indoor track & field in the winter and outdoor track & field in the spring. She has earned NJAC all-conference honors in both volleyball and outdoor track & field during her impressive career.
During the 2019 outdoor track & field season, Leon won the conference title in the hammer throw, collecting an NJAC First Team accolade in the event as well as NJAC Honorable Mention in the discus. She previously was an NJAC Honorable Mention performer in the hammer throw in Spring 2018. Leon has two career wins in the weight throw and one in the hammer throw.
Leon was voted to the NJAC Second Team for her play during the 2019 volleyball season in which she finished second on the team with 286 kills and produced a double-digit kill total in 11 matches. Leon helped Stockton win the NJAC championship, advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and post a 31-4 record that season.
In three years on the Osprey volleyball squad, Leon has recorded 441 kills, 148 blocks and a .212 hitting percentage. Her career accomplishments in both volleyball and track certainly would be greater if not for the cancellation of the 2019 outdoor track season and 2020 volleyball season due to COVID-19.
Leon is currently practicing with both the Stockton volleyball and track teams and could potentially compete in each sport this semester if New Jersey Athletic Conference plans to play a modified spring volleyball schedule and track & field slate come to fruition.
Leon, an Environmental Science major at Stockton, has qualified for the NJAC All-Academic Team in both of her years of eligibility thus far, with one more opportunity coming at the conclusion of the 2020-21 academic year.