CLINTON, Miss. --- Mississippi College volleyball placed four student-athletes on the 2024 Academic All-District® volleyball teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, on Tuesday, Dec. 17.
Londyn Bakeris,
Rhaia Davey,
Mary Grace Foster and
Ali Wiggins represented the MC program on the list.
The award recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America® program separately recognizes men's and women's soccer honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA.
Eight Choctaws have earned the award in program history. This is the second CSC Academic All-District award for Bakeris and Wiggins and the first for Davey and Foster. The quartet join former Choctaws
Lexie Laurendine and
Kendall Platt, who also received the honor.
Nomination Criteria
- Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically.
- Nominee must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination as either an undergraduate or graduate student. Only the school at which an athlete competed in the current academic year can nominate that player.
- An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
- A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA.
- Eligible nominees must compete in 90 percent of the institution's matches played OR must start in at least 66 percent of the institution's matches. Liberos, although not counted in stats as a starter, may be counted as such for nominating purposes.
