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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Christine Chiricosta Named to Academic All-District First Team
May 21, 2009 | Women's Tennis
May 21, 2009
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - Bowling Green State University tennis standout Christine Chiricosta (Avon Lake, Ohio/Avon Lake) has been named to the 2009 ESPN The Magazine Women's At-Large Academic All-District Team, it was announced Thursday (May 21). Chiricosta was one of 10 student-athletes, and the only sophomore, named to the first team.
As an academic all-district first-team pick, Chiricosta is now eligible for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team. Her name will be placed on the national ballot.
Chiricosta is the first Falcon tennis student-athlete to earn academic all-district honors in six years, since Alyson Gabel in 2003.
Chiricosta, who earned Academic All-MAC honors two weeks ago (May 7), has been an All-MAC Second-Team selection on the court in each of her two years at BGSU. In 2008-09, she had an overall record of 39-16, best on the team, and she tied for the BG lead in both singles wins (20) and doubles victories (19). Chiricosta, who played at the second singles flight for most of the year, went 3-0 in dual matches at the #1 flight and was 9-4 at the #2 flight in dual-match play.
In doubles, Chiricosta had a record of 19-9, teaming with senior Kelsey Jakupcin to go 11-4 in dual matches and 6-1 in conference play. She was one of just two Falcons to qualify for the ITA Midwest Region Championships in the fall, competing in both singles and doubles. Chiricosta had a 12-match winning streak (7 singles, 5 doubles) early in the dual-match schedule.
After just two years at BGSU, Chiricosta already is close to adding her name to several of the school's career records lists. With 42 singles wins, Chiricosta is just three shy of 24th place. Her total of 85 overall wins puts her just two away from joining the top-25 on that chart. Overall, she has records of 42-14 in singles, 43-17 in doubles and 85-31 combined at BG. She was named an ITA Scholar Athlete as a freshman (this year's ITA awards have not yet been announced).
In the classroom, Chiricosta maintains a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade-point average as an Adolescent/young adult/secondary education major.
The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Team is the result of voting by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) members within District IV. The district consists of schools in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. To qualify for nomination, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletic credentials and a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.30 (on a 4.0 scale). Additionally, she must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing (true freshmen, red-shirt freshmen and ineligible athletic transfers are not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at the institution.
The at-large team hopefuls consisted of district student-athletes in the women's sports of bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo.
The Falcons ended the 2008-09 season with an overall dual-match record of 12-7 and a MAC regular-season mark of 5-3. BGSU finished with a winning mark in MAC play for the first time since the 2002-03 season.
2009 ESPN THE MAGAZINE ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
First Team
Mallory Blackwelder, Kentucky (Sr. - Versailles, Ky. - 4.0 - Marketing)
Liana Bonanno, Ohio State (Sr. - Mount Sinai, N.Y. - 3.96 - Physics)
Rachelle Coetzee, Ohio Univ. (Sr. - Bloemfontein, South Africa - 3.97 - Accounting/Management Information Systems)
Kassi Price, Alabama (Jr. - Plantation, Fla. - 4.0 - Double major in Marketing and Advertising)
Lindsay DiPietro, Wayne State (Sr. - Manotick, Ontario - 3.89 - Finance)
Shirley Harvey, South Alabama (Sr. - Belfast, Northern Ireland - 4.00 - Finance)
Alyssa Meyer, Ohio State (Sr. - Chesterfield, Mo. - 4.0 - Exercise Science)
Tara Baxter, Oakland (Sr. - Manotick, Ontario - 3.9 - Biology)
Christine Chiricosta, Bowling Green (So. - Avon Lake, Ohio - 4.00 - Adolescent/young adult/secondary education)
Heather Bustanoby, Louisville (Jr. - Virginia Beach, Va. - 3.96 - Psychology and communications)
Second Team
Stephanie Bernthal, Kent State (Gr. - River Forest, Ill. - 3.74, 3.80 (grad) - Psychology, Community Relations)
Catherine Newman, Vanderbilt (Jr. - Greensboro, N.C. - 3.88 - Civil Engineering)
Stacey Ogle, Alabama (Sr. - Albertville, Ala. - 4.0 - Communications)
Rachel Heim, Ohio Univ. (So. - San Diego, Calif. - 3.97 - Biochemistry)
Heather Butt, Morehead State (Sr. - Middletown, Ohio - 3.95 - Accounting)
Kerstin Pahl, Western Michigan (Sr. - Kiel, Germany - 3.75 - Management)
Sarah Curtis, Michigan (Jr. - Reno, Nev. - 3.64 - Biology)
Sarah McCall, Tennessee (Sr. - Knoxville, Tenn. - 3.95 - Audiology and Speech Pathology)
Libuse Bruncvikova, Tennessee (So. - Litomerice, Czech Rep. - 3.93 - Business w/ Marketing emphasis)
Elizabeth Hughes, Alabama (Jr. - Maryville, Tenn. - 3.94 - Psychology)
