Francis Pomeroy Naismith Prize

The Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award is the annual basketball award awarded to the best graduate of the year from the NCAA Basketball Tournament among students whose height does not exceed 183 cm (6 ft) for men and 173 cm (5 ft 8) inches) for women, the initial height of female students should not exceed 168 cm (5 ft. 6 in.), which when growing slightly below average show phenomenal skill. The prize is named after the adopted daughter of basketball creator James Naismith Francis Pomeroy, who he later legalized. The student award was established by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC ) and was first presented to Billy Keller of Purdue University in the 1968/69 season. The student award was established by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA ) and was first awarded to Kim Malki of Louisiana University of Technology in the 1983/84 season.

Francis Pomeroy Naismith Prize
Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award
A country	USA
Type of	Reward
To whom is awarded	The best basketball student of the U.S. Student Championship ( NCAA ), whose height is not higher than 183 cm in men and 173 cm in women
Who is handed	NABC (1969—2014) WBCA (1984—2014)
Statistics
Established	1969
First award	Men: 1969 Billy Keller , Purdue Women: 1984 Kim Malki , Louisiana Tech
Last reward	Men: 2014 Russ Smith , Louisville Women: 2014 Odyssey Sims , Baylor
Site	Husband: www.nabc.org Female: www.wbca.org

The Francis Pomeroy Naismith Prize has recently been awarded only to basketball players who compete in the 1st Division of the National University Sports Association (NCAA) , although it was previously available to all divisions. Among men, John Rinka from Kenyon College (1970) and Mike Sheeb from Susquehanna University (1978) became winners from the 2nd and 3rd divisions, respectively, and among women, Julie Dabrowski from New Hampshire College (1990), Amy Dodrill (1995) ) and Angie Arnold (1998), both from Johns Hopkins University , were third-prize winners.

Students only representatives of the University of St. Johns , the University of California in Los Angeles , the University of Louisville won the honorary trophy twice. Students several times winners in this nomination were students of the University of Pennsylvania (3 times), the University of Connecticut , the University of Notre Dame , Johns Hopkins University , the University of Gonzag , and Baylor University (2 times each). The last recipients of the honorary award in the 2013/14 season were Russ Smith of Louisville University and Odyssey Sims of Baylor University.