Thursday,
June 14, 2007
MORAVIAN’ S REBECCA ANGSTADT NAMED
TO ESPN THE MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA FIRST TEAM
WALTHAM,
MA --- Junior women's tennis player Rebecca Angstadt (Hamburg,
PA/Hamburg HS) has been named to the 2007 ESPN The
Magazine Academic All-America College Division Women’s
At-Large First Team selected by the College Sports Information Directors
of America.
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.
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 is the 32nd ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-American in Moravian history and the 27th in the last
14 years.
The Academic All-America® Teams program honors 816 male and
female student-athletes annually 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 consisted of sports
public relations professionals for colleges and universities in
the United States and Canada.
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. Since the program’s 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.
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.
ESPN The Magazine – winner of the 2006 and 2003
National Magazine Award for General Excellence – is a provocative
and innovative sports publication. Full of insight, analysis, impact
and wit, the oversized bi-weekly with a circulation of 1.9 million
looks ahead to give fans a unique perspective on the world of sports.
For more information about the Academic All-America Teams program,
please visit www.cosida.com
or e-mail rlipe@bentley.edu.
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