Dunlavy earns program's third Academic All-District® honors
CoSIDA Announces 2019 Academic All-District® Football and Volleyball Teams
Stonehill's all-time CoSIDA Academic All-District®
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EASTON, Mass. (November 15, 2018) – Stonehill College senior Rachel Dunlavy has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District® I First Team for volleyball, as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) members in Division II from the East Region, announced on Thursday.
The senior from Brighton, Michigan is just the second volleyball student-athlete in Stonehill history to earn Academic All-District® I First Team honors, as Pam Kelly '98 was the first honoree. This is Dunlavy's second recognition from CoSIDA as she earned it last year as a junior. Out of the three conferences in the East Region, the Northeast-10 Conference had six selections out of the 11 selected.
Dunlavy, who has earned a 3.98 cumulative grade point average while majoring in economics and minoring in business has completed five of the six semesters with a 4.0. She has been named to the NE10 Commissioner's Honor Roll, Stonehill's Dean List, and the Athletic Director's Honor Roll her entire career thus far. She has also been invited to Stonehill Athletics' Academic Excellence Breakfast for the highest GPA on the team after the Fall 2017 and 2018 semesters. Dunlavy also earned the Division II Athletic Director's Association Academic Achievement Award her sophomore and junior years. She was inducted into Omicron Delta Epsilon and was given the St. Thomas Aquinas medal, Patron Saint of Students, for having the highest cumulative grade point average on the team. She received her third Fred C. Petti Individual Academic Award in as many years this fall, for having the highest GPA among Stonehill student-athletes
Dunlavy sits seventh in program history with 1,142 career digs (PHOTO BY: SportsPix) |
On the court, Dunlavy has started and appeared in all 24 matches this season. This season, Dunlavy reached the 1,000 career-dig milestone in a 3-0 victory over Saint Michael's College and she is now the 10th Skyhawk to reach this mark. Currently, she has 1,142 digs and sits seventh in the program. She is fifth in the Conference with 4.64 digs per set.
This is the highest average in a season for a Skyhawk libero since Erin Kelly '13 averaged 4.50 in 2012.
Outside the classroom, Dunlavy has been a teacher's assistant at Harvard University for the economics department specifically assisting in micro and macroeconomics, serving in the same capacity at Stonehill since the fall of 2017. This past summer, she was an intern at Meridian Health Plan in the enterprise information management department in Detroit, Michigan. Dunlavy will graduate this December with a major in economics and minors in data analytics and business.
The Skyhawks received their first NCAA Division II East Region ranking since 2014, as they are ninth among the region.
Stonehill currently sits fifth in the NE10 with an overall mark of 15-9 and a Conference record of 8-4, as they have one regular season game remaining as they host Southern Connecticut State University on Saturday, November 16 with a start time of 2:00 p.m. at Merkert Gymnasium, as they will recognize Dunlavy prior to the game for senior day.
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