MORAVIAN’S REBECCA ANGSTADT NAMED TO ESPN The MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT FIRST TEAM

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Junior Rebecca Angstadt (Hamburg, PA/Hamburg HS) of the Moravian College women’s tennis team has been named to the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District II College Division Women’s At-Large First Team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

By making the All-District First Team, Angstadt is now forwarded onto the national ballot to try for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American® accolades, which will be announced on Thursday, June 14th. The At-Large program includes the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo for men and women, crew and field hockey for women and volleyball and wrestling for men.

To be eligible for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® accolades, a student-athlete must maintain at least a 3.20 grade-point average, be a sophomore, junior or senior and be a starter or significant reserve. The College Division is made up of all the NCAA Division II and III schools in the nation as well as all NAIA schools. Student-athletes from NCAA Division I schools are named to the University Division Teams. District II is made up of schools from Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Angstadt helped the Greyhounds to a 14-3 record this season. Moravian had a 5-1 mark during the Commonwealth Conference regular season, however; the Greyhounds won the 2006 Commonwealth Conference Tournament Championship to advance to the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament for the first time in school history. Moravian fell to Johns Hopkins University, 5-0, in the 2007 NCAA Regionals at Washington & Lee University.

Angstadt played sixth singles for the Greyhounds, posting a 17-1 record this past season. She was 14-1 in dual matches and posted a 13-1 mark at sixth singles. Angstadt won the 2006 Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletic Corporation Sixth Singles Championship. Angstadt currently has a 4.00 grade-point average with a dual major in accounting and mathematics.

Angstadt will try to become the 32nd ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American in Moravian history and the 27th in the last 14 years.