NEW HAVEN, Conn. - - In conjunction with the 50th Anniversary of Title IX across the United States, the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) -- along with the NCAA and other conferences in Division II -- will honor former female student-athletes throughout the 2022-23 season. Today's installment of six featured student-athletes includes Jasmine Minter (Alliance University), Skylar German (Post University), Brianna Ligotski (University of the Sciences), Kristen Blye (Thomas Jefferson University), Amanda Walters (Wilmington University), and Cherlynn Townsend (University of Bridgeport). Today's feature also highlights the 2001 Felician University Women's Soccer team which won the CACC Regular Season Championship (14-3-2 record) and participated in the NAIA Regional Tournament.

Two-sport athlete Amanda Walters was a four-year member of the women's soccer team as a goalkeeper and a four-year member of the women's basketball team. She was a Second Team All-CACC netminder in 2012, helping the Wildcats to their lone CACC Tournament Championship. She had a career-best 1.32 goals against average in 2012, going 13-6-2 overall with seven shutouts. She is the program's all-time leader with 311 saves and fourth all-time with a .791 career save percentage and fourth all-time with a 1.61 career goals against average. Walters also made 10 starts in 2010, helping the team go undefeated in CACC play and win the Regular Season Championship. On the court, she averaged 1.5 points and 2.4 rebounds per game in 61 appearances. 

Pioneers in women's athletics helped lead to the creation of Title IX in 1972, as the new law provided more opportunities for females across this land to compete in sports they love. The former CACC greats being profiled in this series took those early efforts to heart and turned themselves into some of the finest female student-athletes in college history.

Their greatness serves as inspiration for future generations of female student-athletes to not only meet their achievements but exceed them and continue the evolution of women's sports in the United States of America.