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Three Lady Tigers Earn C-USA All-Academic First Team Honors
Nov. 4, 2009
Memphis, Tenn. - The University of Memphis women’s soccer team landed three student-athletes on the C-USA Women’s Soccer All-Academic first team as announced by the league office Wednesday. Junior defender Brittany Hance, 2009 C-USA Defensive Player of the Year Kelsey Bakker and first team All-C-USA selection Vendula Strnadova received C-USA All-Academic first team honors. Hance received her first All-Academic Team honor and holds a 3.83 grade point average in her major of biology. The O’Fallon, Mo. native, has anchored a defensive backfield that has posted 10 shutouts this season and has started in all 19 matches this season. Bakker garnered All-C-USA first team and C-USA Defensive Player of the Year honors this season and has played a vital role for the Lady Tiger defensive back line that has posted 10 shutouts this season. The Kennewick, Wash. native, has a 3.92 grade point average as an accounting student with a minor in marketing management. Strnadova, a 2009 first team All-C-USA selection, collects her second All-Academic Team honor. The Las Cruces, N.M. native, has tallied four goals and two assists this season and holds a 3.98 grade point average in the field of health and human performance.
Strnadova received first team CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV honors and will appear on the Academic All-America ballot later this month. Bakker was a second team CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV selection. The Lady Tigers will play SMU on Wednesday, Nov. 5th in the first round of the C-USA Women’s Soccer Championship at Westcott Field in Dallas, Texas. Kick-off is set for 7:30 p.m.
2009 CONFERENCE USA WOMEN’S SOCCER ALL-ACADEMIC TEAM First Team *Ericka Baer Colorado College Amanda Malkiewicz East Carolina * Kelsey Bakker Memphis Brittany Hance Memphis Vendula Strnadova Memphis Katelyn Ostendorf Rice *Erin Scott Rice *Shelly Wong Rice Mackenzie Ayer Tulsa *Danielle Blair UAB *Melissa Desilets UTEP Second Team NAME/SCHOOL Emily Beans Colorado College Jessica Woodward East Carolina Kristen Berquist Marshall Molly Snead Marshall *Alexa Coralli Rice Jana Mason Southern Miss Courtney Chadney Tulsa Jennifer Kacergis Tulsa Lauren Halbert UCF Chelsea Winbush UTEP *Repeat Selection |
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