Colorado State University Athletics
Past Mencimer Memorial Award Winners
The Mencimer Memorial Award was established in 1976 by Barbara Mencimer-Maxfield in honor of her parents, Floyd and Catherine Longmore-Mencimer, to be given annually to the most outstanding female scholar-athlete. Floyd Mencimer was a member of the Colorado Aggies baseball and football teams of the early 1930s. During his senior year, Floyd helped guide the Aggies football team to the 1933 conference championship. His wife Catherine was a Women's letter winner in swimming during the mid-1930s and a member of the Women's Athletic Council. Both Floyd and Catherine were top athletes of their day at CSU and helped guide their daughter Barbara in athletics as well.
Barbara Mencimer attended Colorado State from 1956 to 1959 and competed in field hockey, track, badminton, tennis, skiing, swimming, basketball, volleyball and softball prior to intercollegiate competition for women. Barbara would have earned 24 varsity letters in modern day athletics had it been available at the time. Catherine Mencimer died in 1970 at the age of 55 and Floyd Mencimer died in 1974 at the age of 61.
MENCIMER MEMORIAL AWARD WINNERS
| Year | Name | Sport |
| 2024-25 | Naeemah Weathers | Volleyball |
| 2023-24 | Sarah Carter | Cross Country/Track & Field |
| 2022-23 | Lily Tomasula-Martin | Cross Country/Track & Field |
| 2021-22 | Jacqi Van Liefde | Volleyball |
| 2020-21 | Emily Luetschwager | Tennis |
| 2019-20 | Andrea Basile | Swimming |
| 2019 | Linnea Jonsson | Track & Field |
| 2018 | Hannah Tvrdy | Women's Basketball |
| 2017 | Janelle Lincks | Track & Field |
| 2016 | Holly Reinke | Softball |
| 2015 | Gritt Ryder | Basketball |
| 2014 | Kendal Butterfield | Softball |
| 2013 | Breann Fuller | Swimming |
| 2012 | Nicole Peters | Track & Cross Country |
| 2011 | Michelle Price | Swimming |
| 2010 | Nora Kennedy | Swimming |
| 2009 | Stefanie Ferguson | Women's Golf |
| 2008 | April Thomas | Track & Cross Country |
| 2007 | Katherine Whitney | Volleyball |
| 2006 | Lindsay Thomas | Basketball |
| 2005 | Kristen Campos | Golf |
| 2004 | Christine Ahn | Track |
| 2003 | Shannon Strecker | Basketball |
| 2002 | Allison Peckham | Volleyball |
| 2001 | Liz Toman | Track |
| 2000 | Sara Hyzer | Softball |
| 1999 | Shelly Borrman | Track |
| 1998 | Shelly Borrman | Track |
| 1997 | Kim Pulliam | Golf |
| 1996 | Teresa James | Basketball |
| 1995 | Marsha Landowski | Swimming |
| 1994 | Debbie Maas | Track |
| 1993 | Heather Krob | Swimming |
| 1992 | Sandy Ham | Track |
| 1991 | Kristy Wirth | Softball |
| 1990 | Cindy Nelson | Volleyball |
| 1989 | Cindy Gillespie | Swimming |
| 1988 | Patty Hanrahan | Volleyball |
| 1987 | Sandra Mott | Track |
| 1986 | Kerry Gillespie | Swimming |
| 1985 | Robin Wilson | Volleyball |
| 1984 | Elaine Psenicka | Basketball |
| Cathleen Cyr | Field Hockey | |
| 1983 | Susan Knox | Golf |
| 1982 | Janie Schieffelin | Basketball |
| 1981 | Bonnie Tamis | Track |
| 1980 | Dana VanderVeer | Softball |
| 1979 | Meg Postle | Golf |
| 1978 | Anne Kwiatkowski | Gymnastics |
| 1977 | Sue Larson | Swimming |
| 1976 | Wendy Knudson | Track |