2022 Pacific West Conference Athletes of the Year

IRVINE, Calif. – After closing out her career as the 2022 NCAA Division II National Champion, Academy of Art women's golfer Anahi Servin was bestowed the title of Pacific West Conference Female Athlete of the Year, the most prestigious individual honor given by the conference. The award, voted on by the PacWest's directors of athletics, was announced by the conference's media relations office on Monday.

One of the most decorated ART U student-athletes, Servin ended firmly in front of 97 other golfers by four strokes to secure the first national title for Academy of Art outside of track & field. The native of Asuncion, Paraguay turned in a final combined score of 5-under-par 211 to complete her third career trip to Nationals as the best golfer in the country.

Not only did Servin make ART U history, but she became the first Pacific West Conference women's golf student-athlete to win the national championship and just the third student-athlete to do so from the NCAA West Super Region. In addition to the national title, the Architecture major finished the season as a WGCA All-American for the fourth time in her career. Servin first earned such an honor during her sophomore season in 2019, followed that with honorable mention in 2020, and then she captured the award once again last year in 2021 with a ninth place tie at the National Championship. 

The only women's golfer in PacWest history to be named the Golfer of the Year in four collegiate seasons, Servin this year became just the third student-athlete in PacWest history across all sports to win a Golfer/Runner/Player of the Year award four times, joining BYU-Hawaii's Nannan "Dallas" Zhang (women's tennis) and Shih Ting "Stella" Chen (women's volleyball). Servin, the 2018 PacWest Freshman of the Year, also has four WGCA All-Region, four PacWest All-Tournament Team, four All-PacWest First Team, and five Academic All-PacWest selections across her career.

While she would end just one stroke shy of going 4-for-4 at the PacWest Championship in individual titles, finishing as the runner-up despite lowering her score by one stroke in each round, Servin still won four separate tournaments this season to further increase her ART U record to 14 for her career. Additionally, she also collected seven top-3 finishes (over half the number of tournaments played) and recorded an average round score with a 73.64 across a total of 28 rounds in 2021-22. Her lowest round of the year was an 8-under-par 63 which she turned in during the opening round of Birdie Fest.

Servin is the fourth student-athlete in Academy of Art Athletics history to earn the distinction of being a PacWest Athlete of the Year. James Young was the most recent honoree in 2021, ART U Athletics Hall of Famer Mobolade Ajomale received the honor twice in 2018 and 2019, and multi-time Hall of Famer Vashti Thomas ('16) (2013) was the first Urban Knight to be selected for the award.