CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ? Seven volleyball student-athletes received all-academic accolades as announced at the 2007 America East Volleyball Championship banquet in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y. on Friday, November 16. Included on the all-academic team is the America East Setter of the Year, Stony Brook senior Kaitlyn Deutsch.
The volleyball all-academic team is Albany’s Ashley Crenshaw (Birmingham, Ala./Hoover), Binghamton’s Jacki Kane (Centennial, Colo./Grandview), UMBC’s Ashley Oscars (Bakersfield, Calif./Liberty), New Hampshire’s Kirsten Bates (Calgary, Alberta/Bishop Carroll), Jessica Compton (Woodridge, Ill./Downers Grove South), Kate Uitti (Pinckney, Mich./Pinckney) and Stony Brook’s Deutsch (St. Louis, Mo/Southern Mississippi).
The All-Academic squads are a product of the June 2005 Athletics Director meetings. Faculty representatives and athletics directors from each of the conference’s nine member institutions decided to honor some of the league’s top athletes that are also quality students.
The All-Academic Team has been selected based on the student-athlete’s academic and athletic accomplishments. Academic achievement for consideration requires student-athletes to have a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 3.00 entering the season. Athletically, student-athletes are required to be a nomination on the post-season awards ballot, which is determined by the league’s head coaches. Team size for team sports is based on the number of athletes that participate in a contest at one time (e.g., 11 on the field for field hockey). In the event that the number of student-athletes meeting the requirements is greater than the number that participate in a contest at one time, all-conference vote totals were used as the tie-breaking criteria. Freshmen are not eligible for the all-academic teams and grade-point averages are taken from the semester prior to the competing athletic season.