Former Oregon State University standout student-athlete Tayla Woods has been selected as one of three recipients of the National Association of Collegiate Women’s Athletics Administrators’ Rising Star honor.
Woods, who lettered from 2011-14 on the Beavers’ volleyball team, is one of the most accomplished student-athletes academically in OSU history. She was twice selected to the Pac-12 Academic First Team, a 2013 Academic All-District selection and received the prestigious Tom Hansen Pac-12 Medal in 2014 for scholarship, athletics and leadership. She earned her master’s in education from Oregon State in 2016 after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2014.