For Immediate Release
Friday, February 24, 2023
NSIC Media Relations

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – MSU Moorhead’s Peyton Boom was voted by the league coaches as the winner of the NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year Award.  A native of Barnesville, Minnesota, Boom is a graduate student in the Speech Pathology program while holding a 3.9 graduate grade point average. 

The “NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year Award” is presented to a NSIC women’s basketball student-athlete who participates at her institution for four years and is academically superior while making a positive contribution to her team and the University. The NSIC Outstanding Senior of the Year award was initiated in 2020-21 to honor an outstanding senior that exemplifies the attributes of the model NSIC student-athlete.

Boom has played in a school record 124 career games and ranks seventh all-time in scoring at MSUM with 1,436 points to go along with 756 rebounds and 601 career made field goals, which is fourth all-time in school history. In her career, she has been a model of efficiency while scoring at a high level with an incredible 52.1 lifetime field goal percentage.

In the classroom, Boom held a 3.6 undergraduate GPA as she was a member of the Dean’s List every semester, was a NSIC All-Academic Team of Excellence member and a WBCA All-Academic Team member. 

In the community, Boom volunteers at Eventide Nursing Home/Assisted Living Facility, helping with organizing and participating in activities and games with seniors living in the facility. She has also helped her team with volunteering for the YWCA Chocolate Fantasy event, Moorhead Presbyterian Church events, along with helping her team out with various free basketball camps in the area. She helped with the MSUM Make-A-Wish event last season that honored her friend & fellow MSUM student, Joe Keller, who passed away in 2021.

”Peyton is one of the humblest student-athletes I have had the honor of coaching. She leads with a quiet confidence and plays with a ton of grit. She has worked her tail off in the classroom and on the court, in which she has achieved many things she needs to be really proud of. She has been a huge asset to our program and her legacy will live forever,” said Head Coach Karla Nelson.

2020-21 Winner: Erin Norling - Wayne State 
2021-22 Winner: Tori Wortz - St. Cloud State 

About the NSIC
The NSIC is a 16-team, 18-sport, NCAA Division II conference with institutions located in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The NSIC is a model Division II conference that uses high-level athletics competition to develop champions in the classroom and community while empowering student-athletes to be impactful and positive leaders. Formed in 1992 by the merger of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (men’s league) and the Northern Sun Conference (women’s league), the NSIC has flourished over the past quarter century, maturing into a 16-team union of Upper Midwest colleges and universities. The NSIC has won 24 team national championships and crowned 81 individual national champions. For additional information, visit NorthernSun.org.

About NCAA Division II
The NCAA, the national governing body for college athletics, is a volunteer association of more than 1,000 colleges and universities that classify their athletics programs in one of three membership divisions. The 300+ institutions in NCAA Division II support a balanced approach in which student-athletes can earn scholarships based on their athletic ability, pursue their desired academic degree, and participate in all the campus and surrounding community have to offer. Division II student-athletes annually graduate at rates higher than their student body peers, and they have access to the best championships-participant ratio among the NCAA’s three divisions. Division II gives student-athletes the unique opportunity to compete in the classroom, on the field, in their career, for their causes, and on their terms. For additional information, visit NCAA.org.