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EASTON, Mass. (November 28, 2022)- Kristen DeLorenzo and Lauren McCloskey of the Stonehill College women's volleyball team were named 2022 College Sports Communicators Academic All-District® team honorees as announced by the organization last week.
Both Skyhawks garnered the honor for the first time, moving forward onto the national ballot with the Academic All-America teams to be announced at the end of November.
DeLorenzo is an NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Dean's List representative and is a Healthcare Administration major. The junior defensive specialist/libero had a career year for the Skyhawks as she set new highs in digs (355), assists (88), and kills (six). DeLorenzo set a new career-best for digs in a match when she notched 23 at Hartford (Sept. 28) and she had another 20-plus dig match (21) early in the year against Southeastern Louisianna. (Sept. 9). Later in the season, she also posted a career-high in kills with two when the Skyhawks hosted Hartford toward the end of October (Oct. 22). With her 355 digs on the year, DeLorenzo ranked within the top 10 of the NEC in the category (sixth). For her career, DeLorezo has played in 62 matches and has posted 98 assists, 34 service aces, and 521 digs.
McCloskey is also an NE10 Academic Honor Roll and Dean's List honoree and is majoring in Business. McCloskey also posted multiple career-highs this year as she posted new bests in kills (189), service aces (14), assists (eight), digs (55), block assists (46), solo blocks (22), total blocks (68), and also set a new high in hitting percentage at .280. The junior middle blocker was named a Northeast Conference Prime Performer when she posted a new career-high in block assists with seven (Oct. 22). A day before the Hartford match, McCloskey notched a career-best in kills with 12 in the program's first Division I win at Merrimack (Oct. 21). In her career, McCloskey has played in 51 matches and has tallied 259 kills, 13 assists, 14 service aces, 66 digs, and 123 total blocks (32 solo blocks and 91 block assists).
To be eligible, nominated student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve with a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade-point average in her second year at the current institution and must have played in at least 50 percent of the team's games.
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 3,200+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on Aug. 31, 2022.
From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
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