The NCAA News - News and Features

April 14, 1997

Vaughn, Howard head GTE academic basketball teams

Players from Kansas, North Carolina State, Case Reserve and Millikin lead this year's GTE Academic All-America men's and women's basketball teams.

Senior guard Jacque Vaughn of Kansas and senior Jennifer Howard of North Carolina State are GTE Academic All-America Team Members of the Year in university division basketball, and seniors James Fox of Case Reserve and Julie Roe of Millikin earned Team Member of the Year honors in the college division.

The Team Member of the Year recognition goes annually to the players who "best represent the qualities of an Academic All-America student-athlete."

Vaughn, whose team advanced to the regional semifinals of the Division I Men's Basketball Championship after being ranked No. 1 for most of the season, is a business administration major at Kansas. A repeat first-team Academic All-America selection, Vaughn was joined on the first team by Jayhawk teammate Jerod Haase.

It is the first time that two members of a top-ranked team have been first-team selections in basketball, according to College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) chair Dick Lipe.

North Carolina State's Howard, a communications major, led her team to an appearance in the Division I Women's Basketball Championship.

Case Reserve's Fox is a mechanical engineering major and Millikin's Julie Roe is an American studies major.

The GTE Academic All-America Teams are selected by a vote of the 1,800 members of CoSIDA. To be eligible for selection, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve and maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.200 (4.000 scale). CoSIDA has been selecting Academic All-America teams since 1952.

This year's Academic All-America teams in basketball:

University division/men

First team: Doug Brandt, Baylor, aviation sciences; Adonal Foyle, Colgate, history; Pat Garrity, Notre Dame, biochemistry; Jerod Haase, Kansas, business administration; Jacque Vaughn, Kansas, business administration.

Second team: Matt Harpring, Georgia Tech, management; Pete Lisicky, Penn State, finance; Seamus Lonergan, Dartmouth, chemistry; T. J. Lux, Northern Illinois, math education; Dan Muller, Illinois State, business management.

Third team: Scott Cross, Texas-Arlington, business and marketing; Carlos Daniel, Washington State, history; Alexander Koul, George Washington, exercise science; Corey Reed, Radford, chemistry; Skipp Schaefbauer, Illinois State, business management.

University division/women

First team: Kathleen Courtney, Holy Cross, mathematics; Jennifer Howard, North Carolina State, communications; Amy Langville, Mount St. Mary's (Maryland), mathematics; Michelle Palmisano, Vanderbilt, biomedical and electrical engineering; Jayme Olson, Iowa State, psychology.

Second team: Sheila Danker, New Hampshire, economics/political science; Lisa Davies, Southwest Missouri State, communication science disorders; Angela Drake, Toledo, elementary education; Ashley Moore, Campbell, accounting; Carrie Templin, Kent, speech pathology and audiology.

Third team: Kim Brandl, Southern Methodist, liberal arts; Angie Halbleib, Kansas, math education; Korie Hlede, Duquesne, communications; Heather Newlon, Memphis, prephysical therapy; Michele Ratay, Northwestern, history.

College division/men

First team: Jeremy Borys, Catholic, psychology; Casey Chroust, Denison, economics; James Fox, Case Reserve, mechanical engineering; Kipp Kissinger, Nebraska Wesleyan, exercise science; David Kruse, Mankato State, human biology/history.

Second team: Graig Bears, Northwestern (Iowa), history; Bryan Crabtree, Illinois Wesleyan, business administration; Geoff Ping, Seattle Pacific, biology; Mike Shannon, Worcester Polytechnic, civil engineering; Rick Stafford, Alaska Anchorage, English.

Third team: Kevin Braaten, Baldwin-Wallace, prelaw/
political science; Shawn Fasbender, Dana, accounting/finance; Christopher Kiger, Elon, political science; Eric Shaner, St. John Fisher, physics; Torrey Wingert, Briar Cliff, accounting.

College division/women

First team: Ilze Auzina, St. Rose, business administration; Carrie Ferguson, Capital, psychology; Leann Freeland, Southern Indiana, elementary education; Julie Roe, Millikin, American studies; Kristin Schaefer, Augustana (Illinois), accounting and finance.

Second team: Lori DeShields, West Texas A&M, international business; Angie Geiger, Carroll (Wisconsin); Nikki Hall, Longwood, anthropology and biology; Krista Kandere, St. Rose, biology; Kasey Morlock, North Dakota State, electrical engineering.

Third team: Stacey Kaiser, Nebraska-Omaha, prelaw; Amy Loth, Nebraska-Omaha, prelaw; Jennifer Nish, Scranton, secondary education and English; Natasha Taylor, West Texas A&M, kinesiology; Suzanne Venet, Mount Union, sports medicine.