LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. – Three Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference student-athletes earned recognition from CoSIDA and a spot on the Capital One Academic At-Large All-District First Team this week. Full Release
Colorado College swimmer Emma Holmes and Trinity University golfer Brigitte Lee each earned the honor for the second year in a row, while Texas Lutheran University tennis player Sofia Vega picked up her first honor.
Holmes, a senior from St. Paul, Minn., boasts a 3.96 grade-point average in mathematics and will graduate this week. She has also earned a spot on the SCAC Academic Honor Roll every year during her college tenure. She recently completed her senior thesis research project titled "Stochastic Variation of Driver Behavior Characteristics on Microscopic Traffic Flow Modeling." Her research began during the summer of 2014 at Brown University as part of the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program which was funded by the National Science Foundation.
Lee, a junior from Shavano Park, Texas, holds an impressive 3.99 cumulative GPA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She has earned All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference honors each of the past three years for her performance on the course, with the most recent coming after leading the Tiger team to a second-place finish at the 2015 SCAC Championships.
In addition to her honors from CoSIDA, Lee has also earned Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-American Scholar honors each of her first two seasons (2013, 2014). She also was named to the SCAC Honor Roll each of her first two seasons.
Vega, a junior from Corpus Christi, Texas, holds a 3.82 GPA in biology. She helped lead her team to a third place finish at the recent SCAC Women’s Tennis Championship and later earned Player of the Year honors, voted on by the league’s coaches. She is the only SCAC women’s tennis player still in competition as she will compete in the individual championships this week.
To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 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 20,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
