Marietta's Carraher named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV
Junior finished 10-1 at first singles in 2008

May 22, 2008
MARIETTA, Ohio — The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) released their 2008 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District At-large teams Thursday (May 22) and Marietta College junior tennis standout Amanda Carraher (Hilliard/Hilliard Davidson) earned second team honors in District IV.

Sports Information Directors from the district (all NCAA Division II, III and NAIA schools in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama) nominate and vote on selections with first team all-district selections moving onto the national ballot. In order to qualify a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average and be a starter or key reserve.

Carraher, a three-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) first team honoree in tennis, finished with a 10-1 record at first singles in 2008 and is now 29-4 over her three-year career in singles play. Carraher also teamed with sophomore Lauren McKiernan (Parkersburg, W.Va./South) to finish 7-5 at first doubles this spring. The psychology major, which also earned Academic All-OAC At-large in 2007 and Academic All-OAC in women’s basketball in 2008, maintains a 3.72 grade point average.

The Academic All-America Teams program honors 816 male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom.  Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA, a 2,000-member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.

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.

Junior Amanda Carraher was named Academic All-District by ESPN The Magazine