Lycoming College

After becoming one of five players in the Lycoming College women's basketball team's history to earn three all-conference accolades in her career, Erica Lutz '21 was a no-doubt choice as the College's Most Outstanding Female Athlete of the Year in 2021.
 
A 6-0 forward, Lutz was Lycoming's first D3hoops.com All-Region selection as a senior, earning Second Team All-Atlantic/Mid-Atlantic Region honors.
 
An Academic All-MAC and First Team All-MAC Freedom selection as a senior, the Bernville, Pa., native became the first Warrior in program history to lead the conference in both scoring (16.2) and rebounding (11.3) in the same year. She also finished second in the league in field goal percentage (.527), sixth in free throw percentage (.760) and blocked shots (1.2) and seventh in assists (2.5). She finished the season 18th in Division III in rebounding (11.3) and 90th in points per game. During the season, the senior led the Warriors in scoring and rebounding in all six games, posting four double-doubles.
 
Lutz finished her career with 901 points, crossing the 900-point plateau with her last bucket of the season against Stevenson on March 18 of the COVID-19 shortened six-game season. The 6-0 forward became the fourth player in program history to reach 25 career double-doubles and also finished her career with a program-best .527 field goal percentage (382-of-729), second in program history with 138 blocked shots and sixth with 671 rebounds.
 
Team success was a large part of Lutz's career, with the team going 52-32 and reaching the postseason in each of the three full seasons in her career, including reaching the 2019 MAC Commonwealth Championship game.
 
Off the court, the ecology major volunteered with general maintenance of houses and barn, river clean up after flooding and grass and tree cutting at the Lycoming Biology Field Station. She also assisted in dove bandings, baited areas and set up duck traps for banding with the Pennsylvania State Game Commission. She also volunteered with the women's basketball team at St. Mark's Lutheran Church and with a variety of events for the Lycoming County SPCA.
 
She was an eight-time member of the Dean's List and four-time member of the MAC Academic Honor Roll and was inducted into the Chi Alpha Sigma Athletics Honor Society in 2020.
 
After graduation, Lutz became a water quality specialist with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.


Nominated by: Joe Guistina, Associate Director of Athletics