Toronto, Ontario, women's tennis junior named to District I At Large Team for first time
2021 AAA Women's At Large District® Teams Announced
Stonehill's All-Time CoSIDA Academic All-District® Selections
EASTON, Mass. (July 8, 2021) – Stonehill College women's tennis junior captain Samantha Ormesher has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District® At Large first team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) members from the East Region, the organization announced today.
The CoSIDA Academic All-District® Women's At Large Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances in athletic competition and in the classroom. The women's at large program encompasses the sports of beach volleyball, bowling, rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo. Ormesher is just the second women's tennis student-athlete to earn Academic All-District® honors, joining Analise Kump, '16 who was also named to the At Large first team in 2016. Ormesher advances to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot, to be voted on by CoSIDA members nationwide, with first, second and third team honorees to be announced in early August.
Ormesher, who has earned a 3.76 cumulative grade point average as a biology major at Stonehill, earns CoSIDA Academic All-District® honors for the first time in her career. The two-time NE10 Academic All-Conference selection was recognized with the NE10's Elite 24 Award at this spring's women's tennis championship for having the highest cumulative GPA among all championship match participants and received the College's Saint Thomas Aquinas, Patron Saint of Students, Medal for having the highest cumulative GPA on the women's tennis team earlier this spring as well. She is a two-time Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Division II Scholar-Athlete that has received the Division II Athletic Director's Association (ADA) Academic Achievement Award twice and been named to the NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Athletic Director's Honor Roll all six semesters at the College to date. Ormesher was selected to Stonehill's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program, where she and a classmate are working this summer with Bronwyn Bleakley, Associate Professor of Biology, to investigate the Physiology of friendship: "How do guppies become familiar enough to cooperate?"
Ormesher is just the second Stonehill women's tennis student-athlete to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District® honors. (PHOTO BY Doug Monson/Stonehill Athletics) |
Ormesher is a five-time All-NE10 performer over the course of her career at Stonehill, earning All-NE10 third team honors at No. 5 singles and No. 2 doubles this spring. She finished the season with a 15-7 combined record in singles and doubles play, posting a 7-2 singles mark (5-1 NE10) and 8-5 doubles mark (7-2 NE10). She and senior co-captain Isabelle Porter teamed up for a 7-4 record at No. 2 doubles for the Skyhawks, including 6-1 in NE10 play to earn the All-Conference recognition, splitting two matches against regionally ranked competition.
Ormesher was a first team All-NE10 performer at No. 3 singles as a freshman when she was also the Most Outstanding Player of the 2018 NE10 Championships and NE10 All-Rookie Team pick. She enters her senior year with a career combined record of 54-32, including a 27-14 singles record (19-6 NE10) and 27-18 doubles mark (23-7 NE10).
Stonehill women's tennis finished the spring season ranked No. 2 in the final ITA Division II East Region rankings, having posted an 11-4 record overall, including 8-2 in the NE10. The Skyhawks reached the NE10 Championship match for the seventh-straight year and 14th time in program history this spring, earning their 15th NCAA Tournament bid. Stonehill knocked off No. 28 nationally ranked and top-seeded Concordia (N.Y.) College in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (4-3) before falling in the regional championship match.
With 23 intercollegiate sports, Stonehill boasts one of the top athletic and academic programs in the country. Stonehill has won the Northeast-10 Conference Presidents' Cup six times, all coming within the last 15 years. Stonehill has received the NCAA Division II Presidents' Award for Academic Achievement each of the first ten years of the program's existence of honoring institutions with an Academic Success Rate (ASR) of 90-percent or better. The Skyhawks earned a 92% Academic Success Ranking (ASR) by the NCAA, which considers the academic success rate of the institution based on the graduation rate of student-athletes, good for third in the NE10 and 18th among all NCAA Division II institutions, with seven teams receiving a perfect rating of 100%.
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