From now until Jan. 1, the Carson-Newman Athletic Communications Department will debut the Frosty Award nominees for the fall semester.  Here are the fall nominees for Female Newcomer of the Year. Monday, we'll unveil the nominees for Female Performance of the Year. 

The third annual Frosty Awards will take place in April and honor athletic excellence in Carson-Newman's athletic department. 

• Coach of the Year
• Team of the Year
• Comeback of the Year
• Male Freshman of the Year
• Female Freshman of the Year
• The Plays of the Fall
• Male Newcomer of the Year
• Female Newcomer of the Year
• Female Performance of  the Year
• Male Performance of the Year
• Game of the Year
• Male Athlete of the Year
• Female Athlete off the Year

Female Newcomer

Molly Locke: Senior Molly Locke (College Grove, Tenn.) had 448 kills and 454 digs to become the first player since Jenna Rust in 2003 to have at least 400 kills and 400 digs in the same season. The lone three-time SAC Player of the Week was a second-team All-Southeast Region pick, a first-team All-SAC honoree and a Southeast Region All-Tournament Team selection. She led the team with 18 double-doubles on the year while ranking in the top-five in the conference in total points, points per set, total kills, kills per set and total digs. On three occasions this season Molly Locke has notched at least 20 kills and 20 digs (9/4 v. Quincy, 11/20 v. Anderson and 12/6 v. Lenoir-Rhyne) becoming the first player in program history to accomplish that feat at least twice in the same season and fourth player ever to do so.

Maddie Borch: Junior middle blocker Maddie Borch (Walnut Creek, Calif.) was the leader in the SAC in attack percentage this season with a .339 percentage on the year which is second-highest by a C-N player in a single season and ranked 46^th nationally in that category. Dating back to 1990 a Carson-Newman player had never led the league in attack percentage over the course of a season. A SAC Player of the Week was an All-SAC Tournament pick, a Southeast Region All-Tournament team pick, a first-team All-SAC selection and a second-team All-Southeast Region honoree. Borch led the team in blocks 17 times and in kill 10 times. She picked up her first-career double-double in the Southeast Region Championship match with 14 kills and 14 digs against Lenoir-Rhyne.

Julianne Herrity: Junior Julianne Herrity (Donegal, Ireland) became the Eagles' first All-American in five years after being named a third-team All-American by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in early December. She was also a two-time All-Southeast Region selection, the South Atlantic Conference's Player of the Year and a member of the SAC's first team. The junior's first season at Mossy Creek included 16 goals and four assists in 19 starts She led the team in goals scored, tied for second in the league with her 16 scores and tied for 10^th with four assists; her 16 goals tied for the 17^th in the nation. She registered 93 shots, which was the most in the SAC. Herrity recorded four multi-goal performances, which three happened against SAC opponents. She ranked seventh in the nation with seven game-winning goals, including scores against Lenoir-Rhyne and Young Harris in double-overtime. Herrity scored multi-goal games against Newberry, Catawba, Young Harris and Coker.