Weaver named to Academic All-America First Team
WALTHAM, Mass. – Salisbury University forward Kate Weaver was selected to the 2007 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women’s Soccer First Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Weaver becomes the 14th Sea Gull to earn Academic All-America honors in the College Division since 2001.

Weaver is the first SU student-athlete to garner this award since Mary Bateman was named to the women’s at-large second team in 2006. She is also the first Sea Gull to earn first team honors since Nick Pegelow was named in 2005 to the baseball first team.

The Abingdon, Md., native holds a 4.0 grade point average and is a math major. She is one of four student-athletes on the first team to hold a 4.0 cumulative grade point average as the 11 member first team has an overall grade point average of 3.91. She led the Sea Gulls in all three offensive statistical categories as she scored 11 goals and added eight assists for 30 points on the season.

Weaver was named the 2007 Capital Athletic Conference Player of the Year and was a first team selection at forward.

For her career she ranks third all-time in goals with 36, fourth all-time in assists with 17 and is tied for second all-time with 89 points.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 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 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.

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For more information about the Academic All-America Teams program, please visit www.cosida.com.