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Cornerstone's Kyle Steigenga, Vanguard's Amber Alexander Headline CoSIDA Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams

AUSTIN, Texas – Senior forward Kyle Steigenga from Cornerstone University and senior forward Amber Alexander of Vanguard University headline the 2017-18 CoSIDA Academic All-America® College Division Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams as released by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
 
The College Division Academic All-America® basketball teams include student-athletes from NAIA, Canadian and two-year institutions.
 
Steigenga and Alexander have been selected as the Academic All-America® of the Year honorees for the men’s and women’s basketball teams, respectively.
 
A senior education and kinesiology major from Holland, Michigan, Steigenga owns a 3.97 GPA. Steigenga joins an elite class of three-time first-team Academic All-America® honorees. He is a two-time Daktronics NAIA Scholar-Athlete and Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference All-Academic.
 
Steigenga recently closed his illustrious career when Cornerstone ended its season in the NAIA Division II Tournament quarterfinals. Steigenga produced 3,023 points, 1,201 rebounds, 271 assists and 81 blocked shots for the Golden Eagles. He became the first Cornerstone men’s basketball player to score 3,000 points and finished second on the program’s career rebounding list. Steigenga established NAIA Division II Tournament career records with 332 points and 135 rebounds in 15 games.
 
Steigenga’s two WHAC Player of the Year honors and four first-team all-conference nods are program firsts. He has collected three first-team All-American accolades, WHAC Newcomer of the Year and 2015 NAIA Division II Tournament Most Valuable Player. Steigenga led Cornerstone to the 2015 national championship, 2017 national runner-up finish, three conference regular-season championships, two league tournament championships, three 30-win seasons and a 124-21 mark.
 
A senior studying education from Paragould, Arkansas, Alexander has compiled a 4.00 GPA both in undergraduate and graduate classes. She garnered a Golden State Athletic Conference Scholar-Athlete award.
 
Alexander collected first-team All-GSAC recognition during her second stint with the Lions. This season, she was selected as GSAC and NAIA Player of the Week twice behind stellar early-season performances. She led the team in scoring (14.4 points per game), rebounding (9.3) and blocked shots per game (1.08).

She had season highs with 38 points against University of Saint Katherine and 20 rebounds against Bethesda Christian University. In two seasons at Vanguard, Alexander has accrued 652 points, 458 rebounds, 73 steals and 41 blocks.

Jeremy Deemer from Graceland University and Lucas Huffman of Indiana University East took their second Academic All-America® honors. Deemer reeled in his second first-team nod, while Huffman was a second-team choice as a sophomore.
 
The Academic All-America® College Division Women's Basketball Team includes four repeat honorees, including three-time Academic All-American Kara Krolicki of Saint Xavier University. Haley Cook of the Indiana Institute of Technology took her second consecutive first-team nod, while Kari Borowiak from Concordia (Mich.) University and Jordyn Miller of Southwestern (Kansas) College also became two-time Academic All-Americans.
 
The 10 student-athletes on the men’s team averaged a 3.95 GPA, while the women’s team boasts of a 3.93 average GPA.
 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Michael MacEachern, Young Harris College | Academic All-America® Co-Director for Publicity
mfmaceachern@yhc.edu | (706) 379-5106

Rich Tortorell, Oklahoma City University | Academic All-America® Coordinator of Publicity
rtortorelli@okcu.edu | (405) 208-5304