Eastern Michigan Athletics
Sulewski Named Academic All-MAC
12/11/2006 3:41:11 PM | Volleyball
Junior selected for the second consecutive season
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Mid-American Conference announced its 2006 Volleyball All-MAC team Friday, as voted by faculty athletic representatives at MAC institutions. The number of honorees on the Academic All-MAC Team are the number that is set for the specific sport or 33% of the number of nominees, whichever is greater. Due to a tie in the voting, this year’s team was extended to 23 student-athletes.
Five repeat selections from a year ago highlighted this year’s squad. Leading the list were Kim Horn and Molly Rutledge of Akron and Kate Bean of Toledo, who were honored for the third consecutive year. Bean was also named a member of the 2006 ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-America.
Also repeating from last year’s academic team were Sarah Wilber of Kent State and Melissa Griffin of Ohio. Wilber was also named to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Second-Team Academic All-District.
Ten of this year’s academic team honorees were selected to all-conference teams by the league’s head coaches, including Wilber, Chrissy Gothke (Bowling Green), Kendra Halm (Bowling Green), Madeline Means (Bowling Green), Stephanie Swiger (Bowling Green), Kate Sulewski (Eastern Michigan), Carli Reihman (Miami), Gina Guide (Northern Illinois), Melissa Griffin (Ohio), and Ashley Vogl (Western Michigan).
Bowling Green led all schools with six honorees.
The Academic All-MAC honor is for a student-athlete who has excelled in athletics and academics. To qualify, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and have participated in at least 50 percent of the contests for that particular sport. First-year students and junior college transfers in their first year of residence are not eligible for the award.
2006 Volleyball Academic All-MAC Team
Name, School Yr. GPA Major Hometown (High School)
Kate Sulewski, Eastern Michigan Jr. 3.33 Accounting Ottawa Lake, Mich. (Bedford)
!#Kim Horn, Akron Sr. 3.85 International Business/Accounting North Canton, Ohio (Jackson)
!#Molly Rutledge, Akron Jr. 3.73 Marketing Wooster, Ohio (Wooster)
Stephanie Bacan, Ball State Grad. 3.80 Sports Administration Remsen, Iowa (St. Mary’s)
Chrissy Gothke, Bowling Green Sr. 3.52 Finance and Supply Chain Management Whitehouse, Ohio (Anthony Wayne)
Kendra Halm, Bowling Green So. 3.38 Criminal Justice Bucyrus, Ohio (Bucyrus)
Maggie Karges, Bowling Green Jr. 3.83 Dietetics Joliet, Ill. (Joliet Catholic Academy)
Madeline Means, Bowling Green Jr. 3.32 Interior Design Caledonia, Mich. (East Kentwood)
Corrie Mills, Bowling Green Jr. 3.83 Integrated Mathematics Elgin, Ill. (Larkin)
Stephanie Swiger, Bowling Green Jr. 3.69 Political Science Findlay, Ohio (Findlay)
Alison Baker, Central Michigan Sr. 3.93 Art and Journalism Sturgis, Mich. (Sturgis)
Mary Ochmanek, Central Michigan Sr. 3.87 Accounting Wyandotte, Mich. (Gabriel Richard)
Sarah Warner, Central Michigan So. 3.91 Undecided New Lothrop, Mich. (New Lothrop)
Anja Knabe-Paulsen, Kent State Jr. 3.97 Business Management Schwarenbeck, Germany (Darlington)
Vaiva Laniauskas, Kent State So. 3.97 Middle Childhood Education Mentor, Ohio (Lake Catholic)
#$Sarah Wilber, Kent State Sr. 3.87 Human Development/Family Studies Huron, Ohio (Huron)
Anne Zakelj, Kent State Jr. 3.72 Visual Communications Willoughby, Ohio (Notre-Dame Cathedral Latin)
Carli Reihman, Miami Jr. 3.50 Exercise Science Cincinnati, Ohio (Ursuline Academy)
Gina Guide, Northern Illinois Sr. 3.40 Kinesiology/Physical Education Orland Park, Ill. (Sandburg)
#Melissa Griffin,Ohio Jr. 3.75 Hearing, Speech & Language Science Whitehall, Mich. (Whitehall)
!#Kate Bean, Toledo Sr. 3.97 Community Health Louisville, Ky. (Assumption)
Shannon Strachan, Toledo Sr. 3.80 Middle Childhood Education Roscoe, Ill. (Hononegah)
Ashley Vogl, Western Michigan So. 3.57 English and Secondary Education Corunna, Mich. (Corunna)
! 2004 Academic All-MAC Honoree
# 2005 Academic All-MAC Honoree
$ 2006 ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District Second Team
% 2006 ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team
