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AUSTIN, Texas – A pair of seniors headline the 2015-16 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams in selections announced Tuesday by the College Sports information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Jared Holmquist, from Trine University, has been named Academic All-American® of the Year for men’s basketball with
Eastern Mennonite’s Jess Rheinheimer earning the same honor for the women.
The CoSIDA Division III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2015-16 Division III Academic All-America® teams program.
Rheinheimer, a Manheim, Pennsylvania native, is one of five repeat selections to the two Academic All-America® teams. Last season, she was
Jared Holmquist Jess Rheinheimer
a first team honoree and earned ODAC Player of the Year, ODAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the Jostens Award.
A nursing major with a 3.95 G.P.A., Rheinheimer has repeated both of her ODAC awards this season (the first woman in league history to do so) and is a finalist for the WBCA Good Works® team. A pre-season All-America selection by multiple publications, Rheinheimer currently averages 19.8 points and 6.7 rebounds per game.
Holmquist earns his first Academic All-America® nod after posting a 3.90 G.P.A. as an accounting major. Hailing from Reed City, Michigan, Holmquist has earned MIAA Player of the Week honors six times in his career, including three this season. He is second all-time at Trine in blocked shots and was named as the DIII News Player of the Month for November 2015.
Holly Denfield and
Sabrina Drammis join Rheinheimer as repeat selections to the women’s Academic All-America® squad.
Denfield, who is one of three women on the squad to post a perfect 4.0 G.P.A., is a first team honoree this season after earning second team accolades in 2014-15. The junior from Edgar, Wisconsin, has that perfect 4.0 G.P.A. as an architectural engineering/construction management double major and leads Milwaukee School of Engineering in scoring at 19.7 points per game.
Denfield has started every game in her career, is a two-time first team All-NACC pick and earned NACC Rookie of the Year honors in 2013-14.
Drammis, a graduate student at MIT with a 3.84 G.P.A. as a computer science major, grabs a spot on the second team this year after being a first team honoree in 2014-15.
From Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Drammis finished her MIT career as the No. 2 scorer in program history with 1393 points after leading the team in scoring this season at 14.8 ppg. She earned D3hoops.com All-Region honors in 2014-15.
On the men’s side, the only two underclassmen on 2014-15 Academic All-America® team earned repeat selections this year.
Trey Gordon, from Gallaudet, and Carnegie Mellon’s
Jack Serbin both are 2015-16 second team honorees after earning third team accolades in 2014-15.
Gordon, from Talladega, Alabama and a 3.78 student as a government/communications double major, leads Gallaudet this season with a 17.9 points per game scoring average. He was named first team All-NEAC and to the D3hoop.com All-Region third team last season in addition to grabbing on NEAC Player of the Week nod.
Serbin, one of just two juniors on the 2015-16 squad, leads Carnegie Mellon at 17.7 points per game and became the 19
th player in program history to crack the 1,000-point barrier during the Tartans’ Valentine’s Day contest at Washington University of St. Louis.
Serbin earned second team All-UAA honors last year, is a New Albany, Ohio native and has a 3.79 G.P.A. as a business administration major. He has been named Dean’s List with high honors in every semester at CMU.
The 15-woman Academic All-America® Division III women’s basketball team has a 3.86 average G.P.A. with three women – Denfield, Carnegie Mellon’s
Jackie Hudepohl and
Samm Chandler from Averett – each posting a perfect 4.0 G.P.A.
Hudepohl, a junior, is a second team honoree and Chandler, the only sophomore selected to either the women’s or men’s team, is a third team pick.
The women’s first team, led by Denfield’s 4.0 and 3.95 G.P.A.’s turned in by both Rheinheimer and Whitworth’s
KC O’Connell, has a 3.91 average G.P.A.
Neumann’s
DeShawn Lowman, who, along with Serbin, are the only non-seniors selected to the 15-member Academic All-America® Division III men’s basketball squad, is also the only male with a perfect 4.0 G.P.A. His academic performance helps the Academic All-America® Division III men’s basketball first team to a 3.83 average G.P.A. with the overall squad posting a 3.79.
Jordan Daley, from Calvin,
Lucas Hausman from Bowdoin and
Daniel Purvlicis from Wabash join Holmquist and Lowman on the men’s first team.
Lowman, a Wilmington, Delaware native and a Criminal Justice major, has earned All-CSAC honors every year since coming to Neumann and was the CSAC Rookie of the Year in 2013-14. This season, he leads the Knights in scoring at an even 17 points a game.
Daley, who has a 3.83 G.P.A. as a psychology major, led Calvin this season with an 18.3 points per game average and earned All-MIAA first team honors. He is from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and finished his Calvin career with 1,067 points. This season, Daley has earned all-tournament honors at both the Grand Rapids Sports Hall of Fame and D3hoops.com classics.
Hausman averages 25.3 points per game for Bowdoin and is coming off a junior year campaign in which he was named NESCAC Player of the Year, a third team All-America and to the D3hoops.com All-Region team. He has a 3.53 G.P.A. as an economics major and hails from Westport, Connecticut.
Purvlicis, a rhetoric major from Noblesville, Indiana, led Wabash in both scoring and rebounding this season. He boasts a 3.87 G.P.A., serves on the Wabash SAAC and has accepted a position following graduation with Blue Pillar through the Governor Bob Orr Fellowship program.
Aubrey Folger from Lancaster Bible and
Lisa Murphy from Carnegie Mellon complete the first team along with Rheinheimer, Denfield and McConnell.
Folger, from South Berwick, Maine, is a four-time All-NEAC first team selection and the NEAC Player of the Year in both 2014-15 and 2015-16. She is a sport management major with a 3.88 G.P.A. and has led the Chargers to 15
th straight wins and the top seed in the NEAC Tournament.
Murphy, one of two juniors on the first team along with Denfield, led the nation in field goal percentage last season on her way to a second straight first team All-UAA honor. The McLean, Virginia native has a 3.78 G.P.A. as a psychology major and is shooting an amazing 75.2 percent from the field this season while leading the Tartans in scoring at 23.2 points per outing. She currently leads the nation in field goal percentage and is third in scoring.
McConnell, with that 3.95 G.P.A. as a kinesiology/education double major, hails from Clarkston, Washington and has earned All-NWC honors in each season of her Whitworth career. She has led the Pirates in scoring the last two seasons and posts a 19.6 points per game average in 2015-16.
The men’s second and third team consists of nine seniors and one junior (Serbin), who also is one of two repeat honorees this year. Nine different schools are represented with Gallaudet having two honorees.
The women’s second and third team features four seniors, four juniors, one sophomore and one graduate student. Those 10 women represent 10 different schools. Carnegie Mellon, with Murphy on the first team, and Hudepohl on the second, joins Gallaudet as having multiple honorees on one team.
Hope and Whitworth both had one male and one female earn Academic All-America® honors.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Jeff Schwartz, North Dakota State University (
jeff.schwartz@ndsu.edu) (701) 231-8332
Academic All-America® Co-Chair for Publicity/Communications
Scott Musa, Shenandoah University (
smusa@su.edu) (540) 665-5417
Academic All-America® Coordinator of Publicity