FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 15, 2007
Wisconsin's Bauer & Clarion's Wolf Head 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-America Women's At-Large Teams
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ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-America Women's At-Large Teams as selected by CoSIDA
Senior Sara Bauer of the University of Wisconsin and Senior Jamie Wolf of
Clarion University head the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America
Women's At-Large Teams, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors
of America.
Both Bauer and Wolf were also named as the
At-Large Academic All-America of the Year for their respective Divisions.
The College Division includes all of NCAA Divisions II, III and NAIA.
The women's at-large program for Academic All-America includes the sports of
bowling, crew, fencing, golf, gymnastics, field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse,
rifle, skiing, tennis, and water polo.
Bauer, a native of St. Catharines, Ontario, was selected as the University
Division Academic All-America of the Year for the second straight year. The ice
hockey standout scored 24 goals and had 48 assists to lead Wisconsin to its
second straight NCAA Division I championship. A two-time first team
All-American, she won the 2006 Patty Kazmaier Award as the most outstanding
player in women's collegiate hockey and was the 2007 Most Outstanding Player in
the 2007 Frozen Four. A kinesiology major, she compiled a 3.97 grade point
average.
Wolf, from South Park, Pa., was named the At-Large College Division
Academic All-America of the Year. She won 2007 NCAA Division II Diving titles in
the one and three-meter events. The 2007 NCAA II Diver of the Year, set the NCAA
II one-meter record with 453.7 5 points. She became the first NCAA II diver to
win seven of a possible eight national titles in four years, finishing second in
the 2006 one-meter event. Wolf was the NCAA II Diver of the Year three times,
while maintaining a 4.0 GPA in molecular biology.
CLARION NOTES: Wolf will now be considered for the College Division Academic All-America of the Year Award for All Sports – That honor also sponsored by ESPN The Magazine and CoSida will be announced in July… Jamie Wolf is the daughter of Patrick and Patricia Wolf of South Park… She has been voted as Clarion’s Female Athlete of the Year 3-times (2004, 05, 07), and to the PSAC’s Academic Winter Top Ten three times (2005, 06, 07)… Wolf has accepted an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and is going to attend Ohio State University and major in molecular genetics.
The University Division first team features nine athletes with a 4.0 GPA,
including seniors Kristin Brown of Pittsburgh, Sarah Chrzanowski of Eastern
Michigan, Jessica Javelet of Louisville, Karie Walton of Drexel, and Jody
Yednock of Northern Illinois, juniors Kate Burdick of Michigan State, Kristen
Hastrup of Auburn, and Kristi Miller of Georgia Tech and grad student Heidi
Hershberger of American.
Rounding out the University Division first team are sophomores Amanda
Blumenhurst of Duke and Courtney Kupets of Georgia, seniors Blakeley Griffith of
Tennessee and Brittney Schumann of Oklahoma, and senior Stacy Lewis of Arkansas.
In addition to Wolf, the College Division first team had seven athletes with 4.0
or better. They were seniors Brittany Anderson of Truman State, Beth Bard of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Courtney Beard of Shenandoah, and Brenna Clark of
Pfeiffer, juniors Rebecca Angstadt of Moravian and Rebekah Moody of Wingate, and
sophomore Julia Zimmerman of MIT.
Also on the first team were, seniors Alisha Flatter of
Wilmington (Ohio), Jess Furman of Ursinus, Lija Kaleps-Clark of Truman, Katie
Kingsbury of Washington & Lee, Tina Money of Notre Dame (Md.), Lindsay Sabo of
Kings (Pa.), and Becky Weima of Calvin.
The Academic All-America program annually honors over 1600 student-athletes who
have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom.
Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA (the College Sports
Information Directors of America), a 2,000-member organization consisting of
sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the
United States and Canada. Since the programs inception in 1952, CoSIDA has
bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in
Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve,
maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have
reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution
and be nominated by his/her sports information director.
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For more information about the Academic All-America Teams program, please visit
www.cosida.com or e-mail
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