Feb. 5, 2010
MADISON, Wis. – Alyssa Karel, a junior on the University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team has been named to the ESPN The Magazine/College Sports Information Directors of America (COSIDA) Academic All-District 5 team. Karel was named to the five-player district first team for the second consecutive year. She will now be placed on the national ballot for ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors with the other first-team honorees. The national team will be announced on Feb. 23.
Karel, who is the only Big Ten Conference women’s basketball player to earn first-team honors, leads the Badgers and ranks ninth in the Big Ten with 14.1 points per game. The 5-foot-7 guard has been the UW’s leading scorer in 13 games and has scored in double figures in 18 of 23 games this season, including six games with 20-or-more points. Karel shares the team lead with 1.7 steals per game and also adds 3.0 rebounds per game. Karel has a 3.85 cumulative grade point average in nursing.
She is a three-time member of the dean’s honor list and a two-time member of the dean’s list. Karel is in the nursing honors program at the UW and is also a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society. She is a 2009 Academic All-Big Ten honoree and will also be recognized in 2010.
ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District
District 5 – University Division
First Team
Alyssa Karel Wisconsin Jr. 3.85 Nursing
Maggie Krick Illinois State Sr. 3.83 Business Teacher Education
Kelsey Luna Indiana State Sr. 4.00 Psychology
Kayla Tetschlag Green Bay Jr. 3.78 Business Administration
Jenny Van Kirk Bradley Sr. 4.00 Pre-Med
Second Team
Jackie Barton Western Illinois Jr. 4.00 Psychology
Felicia Chester DePaul Sr. 3.78 Sociology
Renee Frericks Bradley Sr. 3.92 Mathematics
Jodi Howell Purdue Grad. 3.48 Technology
Chelsea Jones Purdue So. 4.00 Biology
Melissa Lechlitner Notre Dame Sr. 3.38 Psychology
Brittany McCoy Minnesota Sr. 3.88 Speech Language
Brittany Rayburn Purdue So. 3.86 Animal Science
