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 Senior Sarah-Jo Lawrence was named an ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA First Team Academic All-District selection for the second straight year on Thursday. |
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Lawrence Voted Academic All-District for Second Straight Year
Feb. 7, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - George Washington women's basketball senior Sarah-Jo Lawrence has been selected to ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-District II First Team as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) on Thursday.
It is Lawrence's second Academic All-District first team selection after earning the accolade, along with former teammate Kenan Cole '07, last February. Lawrence now joins 40 other first-team selections from eight districts around the country on the national ballot. She also is one of 30 national nominees for Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.
A communications and sociology major, Lawrence seeks to become the third GW women's basketball player to be named a national Academic All-American. Cole earned first team national honors in 2007, while Jennifer Shasky was voted to the second team in 1993.
Lawrence has started all 22 games for the Colonials this season and ranks third on the team and 15th in the Atlantic 10 in scoring at 13.3 points per game. She also ranks fourth in the league and 40th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.84) and fifth in the A-10 in assists (4.18 apg) and eighth in steals (1.73 spg). She was named A-10 Co-Player of the Week on Dec. 24, after scoring a career-high 29 points to lead GW to an upset of then-10th ranked Texas A&M on Dec. 20. Lawrence also became the 24th player in program history to score 1,000 career points in a victory over Western Kentucky on Nov. 24, and now ranks 16th all-time with 1,231 points.
Lawrence was joined by Maryland's Crystal Langhorne, Villanova's Stacie Witman, American's Elizabeth Hayes and Maryland-Eastern Shore's Kristi Veltkamp on the District II first team.
To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve and maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20 on a scale of 4.00. CoSIDA District II is comprised of Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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2008 CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District
District 2, University Division First Team
Name - School - Yr. - Hometown - Major
Sarah-Jo Lawrence - George Washington - Sr. - Rhoadesville, VA - Communications and sociology
Crystal Langhorne - Maryland - Sr. - Willingboro, NJ - Communication
Stacie Witman - Villanova - Sr. - Plymouth Meeting, PA - Education
Elizabeth Hayes - American - Sr. - Easton, PA - Public Communications
Kristi Veltkamp - Maryland-Eastern Shore - Sr. - Hudsonville, MI - Human Ecology