SIOUX CITY | Morningside College’s Jessica Tietz, a 6-foot-2 senior forward from Bancroft, Nebraska, has been named to the College Division Academic All-District 3 Women’s Basketball Team.
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This is the fifth year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA recognizes four teams – NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division Academic All-District™ Team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.
Washington State University men’s basketball junior Josh Hawkinson has been named to the 2015-16 College Sports Information Directors of American (CoSIDA) Academic All-District 8 Men’s Basketball Team, the organization announced Thursday. He earned a 3.517 undergraduate grade-point average and is now pursuing a master’s of science in kinesiology and health promotion with an emphasis on sport leadership.
Gesell, a native of South Sioux City, Nebraska, garnered a cumulative grade point average of 4.11 this past fall taking leisure studies graduate classes after earning a finance degree in May 2015. He shares the team lead with eight double-doubles this season, including each of the last three games, giving him 12 over his career. He is a 45.2-percent field goal shooter over his career, including 31.7% (97-for-306) from three-point distance, and 74.4% (67-90) free-throw shooter, averaging 9.2 points, 5.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocked shots per game over his career. Jacobson (Fargo, N.D.) and Miller (Waukesha, Wis.) will both advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America honors to be announced later this month.
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A senior marketing major with a 3.46 cumulative GPA, Healy has put together one of the finest careers in St. Bonaventure history. Disterhoft has scored double figures in every game this season and in 69 of her 75 career starts. A second team all-Iowa Conference selection in 2014-15, Taylor is Central’s leading scorer with 20.6 points per game.
