Two Marietta softball players named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District
Carroll eligible for Academic All-America honors

May 10, 2007
MARIETTA, Ohio — The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) released their 2007 ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District softball teams Thursday (May 10), and Marietta College seniors Jenny Carroll (Lisbon/Beaver Local) and Lindsey Romick (Hannibal/River) earned honors in District IV. Carroll was named to the first team and is now eligible for Academic All-America honors; Romick was give second team recognition.

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.

Carroll, an athletic training major with a 3.63 GPA, was a first team All-OAC and All-Central Region shortstop in 2007. When not playing softball, Carroll is active in the Student Athletic Training Organization.

Romick, a chemistry major who carries a 3.445 GPA into her final semester at Marietta, was named a first team All-OAC and second team All-Central Region outfielder this spring. In addition to playing softball, she is active in Chemistry Club and the Student-Athlete Advisory Council.

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 (the College Sports Information Directors of America), 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.