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The NCAA News -- April 12, 1999

GTE Academic All-America men's, women's players chosen

Purdue University's Stephanie White-McCarty and Ryan Robertson of the University of Kansas are among the accomplished stars named to the GTE Academic All-America Men's and Women's Basketball Teams announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

White-McCarty, who was named the women's university division Team Member of the Year, helped lead the top-ranked Boilermakers to their first national championship with a 62-45 win over Duke University's in the title game of the Division I Women's Basketball Championship.

Robertson, a senior majoring in business administration, averaged 13 points per game this season and had a career-high 31 points in the Jayhawks' overtime loss to the University of Kentucky in the regional semifinals of the Division I Men's Basketball Championship.

Senior Matt Sundblad of Lamar University was named the men's university division Team Member of the Year. Sundblad, a psychology/premedicine major, led his team with a scoring average of 13 points per game.

The men's college division Team Member of the Year is Korey Coon of Illinois Wesleyan University. Coon led his team in scoring (20 points per game) and shared most-valuable-player honors in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin this year.

The Team Member of the Year in the women's college division is Jen Swinehart of Baldwin-Wallace College, a senior majoring in sports medicine.

The GTE Academic All-America Teams are selected by a vote of the 1,800-member CoSIDA. Nominees must be a starter or key reserve and maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.200 (4.000 scale).

Following is a list of the men's and women's GTE Academic All-America Basketball Teams in the university and college divisions:

MEN'S UNIVERSITY DIVISION

First Team

Valter Karavanic, Bucknell, electrical engineering; Bobby Lazor, Arizona State, business marketing; Ryan Robertson, Kansas, business administration; Michael Ruffin, Tulsa, chemical engineering; Matt Sundblad, Lamar, psychology/premedicine.

Second Team

Tim Hill, Harvard, government; Jody Lumpkin, College of of Charleston, history; Yegor Mescheriakov, George Washington, sports management; Hanno Mottola, Utah, economics; Neil Reed, Southern Mississippi, sports administration.

Third Team

Dan Earl, Penn State, marketing; Rob Krimmel, St. Francis (Pennsylvania), history/secondary education; Luke Recker, Indiana, sports communications; Sean Riley, Illinois State, biology; David Tompkins, Yale, economics.

WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY DIVISION

First Team

Lisa Baswell, Jacksonville State, special education; Kristina Behnfeldt, Marshall, marketing; Susie Erpelding, San Diego, counseling; Chari Nordgaard, Wisconsin-Green Bay, public administration; Stephanie White-McCarty, Purdue, communications.

Second Team

Kera Alexander, Texas A&M, computer science; Jennifer Crow, Oklahoma State, elementary education; Amy Kieckbusch, Ball State, psychology; Kim Knuth; Toledo, chemical engineering; Amy O'Brien, Holy Cross, Spanish.

Third Team

Karalyn Church, Vermont, psychology; Jennifer Grant, Radford, sports medicine; Anne McDonald, DePaul, computer science; Jacki Raterman, Bowling Green, mathematics; Julie Virta, Austin Peay State, mathematics.

MEN'S COLLEGE DIVISION

First Team

Korey Coon, Illinois Wesleyan, risk management and history; Mark Heidorf, John Carroll, finance; Jared Mosley, Abilene Christian, education (biology); Jason Reinberg, Truman State, biology/premedicine; Bret VanDyken, Ripon, chemistry/biology.

Second Team

David Hobbs, Hampden-Sydney, economics; Jerome Maiatico, Franklin & Marshall, business accounting/government; Lance Meincke, Winona State, marketing; Joshua Wilhelm, Carleton, biology; Aaron Winkle, Calvin, business administration.

Third Team

Trevor Charvat, Bethany (West Virginia), chemistry; Casey Estling, South Dakota State, economics; Kevin Hanlon, Wentworth Institute, construction engineering technology; Matt Olson, Missouri Southern, business administration; Jeremy Piggott, Northwood, accounting/mathematics.

WOMEN'S COLLEGE DIVISION

First Team

Molly Carr, Indiana (Penssylvania), elementary education; Heather Corby, California (Pennsylvania), business marketing; Alia Fischer, Washington (Missouri), French and business; Marisa Hesse, Austin, political science; Jen Swinehart, Baldwin-Wallace, sports medicine; Kristen Venne, Susquehanna, psychology.

Second Team

Victoria Best, MIT, architecture; Emily Bloss, Emporia State, business; Diane Kowall, St. Francis (Illinois), computer science; Telica Philip, St. Leo, premedicine; Ashley Totedo, Shippensburg, psychology.

Third Team

Bess Greenburg, Binghamton, English; Joyce Johnson, Widener, accounting; Stacy Mattioli, Assumption, psychology; Jaime Pudenz, North Dakota, criminal justice; Natasha Rodgers, Austin, mathematics and chemistry; Robyn Ruschmeier, St. Benedict, music.