May 30, 2007

Philadelphia - George Washington grad student Elana Meyers and Temple senior Adrienne Repsher were named ESPN The Magazine first-team Academic All-America selections, as voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Massachusetts junior Lauren Proctor was named to the Academic All-America third-team.

Meyers and Repsher shared the A-10 Softball Student-Athlete of the Year honors earlier in the season, while Repsher was named the A-10 Player of the Year.

Meyers, a third baseman, was GW's leader in batting average (.413), runs (26), hits (59), doubles (14), RBIs (25), total bases (82), slugging percentage (.662) and on-base percentage (.485). She was named to the first-team in the A-10 and in the NFCA Mid-Atlantic region.

In the classroom, she is an eight-time member of the A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, a two-time Arthur Ashe Jr. Softball first-team Sports-Scholar and has been a member of the GW Athletic Department Dean's List every semester. She is pursuing a master's degree in exercise science and boasts a 3.88 cumulative GPA.

Repsher was named the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year, a first-team Mid-Atlantic All-Region selection and a first-team All-Conference honoree. The first baseman stands as Temple's all-time career leader in home runs (22) and total bases (250) while tied for the top spot in doubles (41).

Off the field, Repsher was named the College of Education's Student of the Year, Temple's Female Student Athlete of the Year, the Atlantic 10 Co-Student Athlete of the Year, a First Team ESPN The Magazine District II All-Academic honoree and an Academic All-Conference selection. She graduated with a 3.87 cumulative GPA as an elementary/early childhood education major.

Proctor was a second-team Atlantic 10 All-Conference pick and a second-team NFCA All-Region selection. She hit .358 (57-159) with 35 runs scored, 13 doubles, three triples, 40 RBI, 79 total bases, a .497 slugging percentage, and a .432 on-base percentage. She was 10-for-10 in stolen base attempts and had a .983 fielding percentage in left field. She has a cumulative GPA of 3.73 as a double-major in Journalism and Spanish.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must carry a cumulative GPA of at least 3.2 and be either a starter or a key reserve on his or her team. First-team All-District selections are then eligible for Academic All-America accolades. Thirty-three NCAA Division I softball players were named to the three All-America teams.