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16 award. She joins her teammate Nicole Corcione, who was the 2015 recipient, as the only two female Columbus State student-athletes to win the award. In the 2010-11 academic year, Cougar tennis player Filip Cojbasic was also the Elite 90 winner. Lander men’ s tennis player Diego Zegarra won the honor in 2015.
The Elite 90 award is presented to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA’ s championships. In order to be eligible, the student-athlete must be a sophomore or above and participated in their sport for at least two years with their school. They must be an active member of the team, traveling and a designated member of the squad size at the championship. All ties are broken by the number of credits completed.
Parsons currently has a 4.0 grade point average and is majoring in Engineering Studies.
In her senior season, Parsons has continued to excel for head coach Jay Entlich. Parsons led the Peach Belt Conference this season in wins( 21) and goals-against average( 0.70) helping the Lady Cougars to 14 shutouts, including 10 in a row.
The Greenville, S. C. native broke the PBC career shutout record with 28 after posting a clean sheet in the NCAA Southeast Regional final against 20thranked North Georgia.
Parsons has already racked up plenty of academic and athletic accolades this season. Parsons was named the CoSIDA Academic All-America Player of the Year for women, as well as winning the PBC Elite 15 award. She is now a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, as well as a three-time All-Southeast Region player.
Parsons Academic All-American of the Year; Three Selected to First Team
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Columbus State University senior goalkeeper Maylyn Parsons received one of the top honors available to student-athletes anywhere as she was named the CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year. Parsons, teammate Nicole Corcione and Clayton State’ s Maria Marti Bartis were all named first-team Academic All-Americans on Monday.
Parsons becomes the first women’ s soccer player and only the second PBC student-athlete ever to be named an Academic All-American of the Year. The only other award was presented to Young Harris softball player Sydnee Weaver in 2015.
A senior from Greenville, South Carolina, Parsons becomes the first Columbus State student-athlete to be named the Academic All-America of the Year award winner in any sport. In addition to her first team All-America honors, Parsons is now a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American.
The senior goalkeeper is a three-time All-Southeast Region selection after earning the honors once again last week. The keeper has been outstanding this season leading the PBC in wins( 21) and goals-against average( 0.70), while allowing just three goals during conference play.
Parsons has 28 career shutouts, a Peach Belt Conference record, after posting her sixth clean sheet against 20th-ranked North Georgia in Friday’ s NCAA Southeast Regional final. This year, Parsons has been apart of 14 shutouts, including 10 straight at one point.
Parsons, who won the PBC’ s Elite 15 award presented to the student-athlete with the highest grade point average, has a perfect 4.00
GPA majoring in Engineering Studies. A two-time All-American, Corcione picks up her second Academic All-America award after another fabulous season. The senior has scored 13 goals with 10 assists for 36 total points. She led the PBC with five-game winning goals and also scored in CSU’ s 2-1 double overtime victory over 16th-ranked West Florida in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals.
Corcione has now put together back-toback seasons with at least 10 goals and 10 assists and is inside the top-four in the conference in goals, assists and points.
The Candler, N. C. native is majoring in Nursing and has a 3.58 GPA.
Marti Bartis has collected two of the three Academic All-America honors in the 27-year history of Clayton State Athletics.
A graduate student, she has continued to excel both academically and athletically in 2016. In the classroom she posted a perfect 4.0 GPA while pursuing a Masters in Health Administration and was named to the PBC All-Academic Team for a second consecutive year.
When it came to the field, she had that covered as well. Marti Bartis finished 2016 with 11 goals and eight assists for 30 points and finished her career with 37 goals, 18 assists and 92 points in just three seasons. She is third all-time in program history in goals scored and points, and this year, became the first Laker soccer player, men’ s or women’ s, to score double-digit goals in three consecutive seasons.
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