Four Cowgirls Named Academic All-District

ABILENE, Texas - Four Hardin-Simmons women soccer players have been named College Division Academic All-District VI by ESPN The Magazine and the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Junior defender Sarah Stansell and junior forward Amy Kuykendall where both named to the first team. Stansell has a 4.0 GPA as a math major and Kuykendall has a 3.97 GPA in accounting. They both will go on the ballot to be an Academic All-American.

Senior Lindsay Cogburn was named to the second team with a 3.97 GPA as a speech pathology major. Junior defender Becca Gault was named to the second team with a 3.89 GPA as an athletic training major.

HSU had the most players on the two teams, with four out of the 24 players selected. The Cowgirls had the most selections by a Division III school and had four of the five players selected from ASC member schools.

The ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA academic all-American is the only official academic all-American program in the country. CoSIDA has the term academic all-American trademarked. The first-team all-district selections go on to the national ballot for all-American status.  

The players are nominated by the school's sports information director and then the names are put on a ballot and voted on by the SIDs in each district. District VI consists of all of the colleges in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The college division consists of schools in NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA and NJCAA.

To be nominated to the team student-athletes must have a 3.30 GPA or better and play in at least 50 percent of the team's games at the position they are nominated. Athletic and academic achievement goes into the voting process.

 

FIRST TEAM
Goalkeeper	Ashley Meek	MIDWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Canyon, Texas	3.74	Mechanical Engineer
Midfielder	Lianah Flores	INCARNATE WORD, UNIVERSITY OF THE	VI	Sr.	Harlingen, Texas	3.95	Athletic Training
Midfielder	Alex Leamy	TRINITY UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Loveland, Ohio	3.95	Engineering
Midfielder	Christian Willman	ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Houston, Texas	3.92	Marketing
Defender	Sarah Stansell	HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY	VI	Jr.	McAllen, Texas	4.00	Math
Defender	Danika Wright	TRINITY UNIVERSITY	VI	Jr.	Alpine, Utah	3.84	Accounting
Defender	Keri Dawson	INCARNATE WORD, UNIVERSITY OF THE	VI	Jr.	Las Cruces, N.M.	3.88	Athletic Training
Defender	Alli Miller	CENTRAL OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY OF	VI	Sr.	Norman, Okla.	3.58	Kinesiology
Forward	Amy Kuykendall	HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY	VI	Jr.	Weatherford, Texas	3.97	Accounting
Forward	Leslie Robichaux	MILLSAPS COLLEGE	VI	Sr.	Baton Rouge, La.	3.53	History
Forward	Alex Miley	OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY	VI	Jr.	Edmond, Okla.	3.89	Biology
Forward	Kaysie Boomhower	TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY	VI	So.	San Antonio, Texas	3.9	Communications Studies
SECOND TEAM
Goalkeeper	Brittany Tibbs	OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY	VI	Jr.	Kansas City, Mo.	3.94	Biomedical sciences/kinesiology
Goalkeeper	Sarah Nelin	MILLSAPS COLLEGE	VI	Jr.	Galena, Ohio	3.81	Elementary Education
Midfielder	Jacqueline Horner	TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Denton, Texas	4.00	Kinesiology
Midfielder	Sarah Burnett	OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY	VI	Jr.	Norman, Okla.	4.02	Biology
Midfielder	Lindsay Cogburn	HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Coppell, Texas	3.97	Speech Pathology
Defender	Kayla Sisco	WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Amarillo, Texas	3.67	Education
Defender	Becca Gault	HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY	VI	Jr.	Rockwall, Texas	3.89	Athletic Training
Defender	Megan Schaffer	ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY	VI	So.	New Braunfels, Texas	3.70	Child Learning
Defender	Michelle Sumner	EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Los Lunas, N.M.	3.83	criminal justice
Forward	Brianna Young	TRINITY UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Rockville Centre, N.Y.	3.31	English
Forward	Samantha Lawrence	EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY	VI	Sr.	Roswell, N.M.	3.56	health and physical education
Forward	Brandie DeBacker	ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY	VI	So.	New Braunfels, Texas	3.31	Mathematics

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