Date: April 15, 2004
Contact: Brian Laubscher (540) 458-8676
Release: Upon Receipt

A TOTAL OF 136 W&L STUDENTS EARN SCHOLAR-ATHLETE AWARDS
Fourteen Attain a 4.0 or Higher GPA for the Winter Semester

LEXINGTON, Va. -- Washington and Lee Director of Athletics Mike Walsh has announced that 136 students earned Scholar-Athlete awards during the recently completed winter term. The students are all members of W&L athletic teams and achieved a grade-point average (GPA) of at least 3.500.

Additionally, 14 of the students honored achieved grade-point averages of 4.0 or higher (an A+ is worth 4.330 at W&L). Among the students achieving 4.0 or higher GPA's were senior cross country runner Vanessa Adams (Albuquerque, N.M./Albuquerque Academy), sophomore basketball player and track athlete Ashley Brown (Kingwood, W.Va./Preston), junior All-ODAC volleyball player Michelle Chastain (Phoenix, Ariz./Xavier Prep), freshman All-ODAC soccer player Rebecca Cohn (Virginia Beach, Va./Norfolk Academy), senior Academic All-America soccer player Heather Coleman (Blackwood, N.J./Triton Regional), senior track athlete Angel Daniels (Charleston, S.C./Porter-Gaud), senior swimming captain Jackie Green (Lynchburg, Va./E.C. Glass), sophomore field hockey player Courtney Harrison (Richmond, Va./Collegiate), senior All-ODAC and All-Region soccer captain Meghan Hayde (Massapequa, N.Y./St. Anthony), freshman tennis player Katie Kingsbury (Jenkintown, Pa./Philadelphia-Montgomery Christian), sophomore track athlete Elizabeth Twentyman (Falls Church, Va./George Mason), senior cross country runner Daniel Vos (Dearborn, Mich./Home Schooled), junior All-ODAC and All-Region volleyball captain Emily Wolfing (Mt. Airy, Md./South Carroll) and senior men's lacrosse captain Jimmy Zunka (Charlottesville, Va./St. Anne's-Belfield).

Other notable athletes to receive Scholar-Athlete awards included senior All-ODAC and Academic All-America baseball and football player Peter Dean (Vienna, Va./James Madison), junior All-ODAC and All-America tennis player Lindsay Hagerman (Dallas, Texas/Highland Park), senior All-ODAC and All-Region soccer player Fontaine Marcoux (Washington, D.C./Potomac), junior All-ODAC and All-Region soccer player Peter Miller (Towson, Md./Baltimore Lutheran), junior All-ODAC and All-Region lacrosse and field hockey player Kitt Murphy (New York, N.Y./St. Catherines), senior All-ODAC and All-Region lacrosse player Joanna Perini (Huntington, N.Y./Huntington), senior All-America swimmer Eric Ritter (Birmingham, Ala./Mountain Brook), senior All-America lacrosse player Ansel Sanders (White Stone, Va./Woodberry Forest), senior ODAC Cross Country Runner of the Year Andy Schorr (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood) and junior All-ODAC, All-Region and All-America soccer player Kelley Zagol (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga).

Twenty-two of W&L's 23 varsity athletic programs achieved a team GPA of at least 3.000, led by the men's soccer team with a 3.408. The highest women's team GPA was tennis with a 3.392 and no team recorded a GPA lower than 2.964.

The women's teams combined for a 3.318 GPA, while the men's teams combined to post a 3.129 GPA. The overall student-athlete average was 3.204.

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