Box Score San Antonio - Three members of the Trinity University Tigers
women's soccer team have been elected to the CoSIDA/ESPN The
Magazine Academic All-District VI Teams.
Senior midfielder Alex Leamy and junior defender Danika Wright
made the All-District VI First Team. Senior forward Brianna Young
made the Second Team.
Voting is conducted nationwide by members of CoSIDA, the College
Sports Information Directors of America.
Leamy and Wright are now eligible for selection to the national
Academic All-America Team, when it is announced Nov. 17.
Leamy was elected to the 2008 national Academic All-America Third
Team. She is an engineering science major with a 3.95 grade point
average. Wright, from Alpine, Utah, is an accounting major with a
3.84 GPA. Young, from Rockville Centre, N.Y., is an English major
with a 3.31 GPA.
Wright is a three-year starter who has scored four goals and two
assists this season. Last season, Wright was named to the NSCAA
All-Region Second Team and was a First Team All-SCAC selection as
well. She was also a member of the SCAC All-Sportsmanship Team in
2008.
Young leads Trinity with 13 goals and nine assists this year,
including six game-winning goals. She has scored in 10 consecutive
games heading into the final weekend of the regular season, which
is the longest streak for a Tiger women's soccer player since
2000.
The Tigers are ranked No. 3 in the NCAA Division III, and are
undefeated with a 14-0-0 record. Trinity won its 14th Southern
Collegiate Athletic Conference title (7-0-0 record), and a bid to
the NCAA playoffs.