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Hoekstra Named to Academic All-District First Team
February 05, 2015 | Women's Basketball
Senior leads BG in scoring and rebounding on the court, has a perfect 4.00 GPA in the classroom
Bowling Green State University women's basketball senior Deborah Hoekstra has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District® Team, which was announced on Thursday afternoon (Feb. 5). Hoekstra was named to the first team.
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Hoekstra is the first BGSU women's basketball student-athlete to earn academic all-distrct honors in four years, since Maggie Hennegan was named to the team in 2011.
As an academic all-district first-team selection, Hoekstra's name will be added to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot.
Hoekstra, a native of East Lansing, Mich. (East Lansing), leads the Falcons in scoring and rebounding, with 11.6 points and 6.1 boards per game. She paces the Brown and Orange in three-point field goals made, with 38, and is tied for the team lead in steals. Hoekstra has played in all 21 games this season. After coming off the bench in each of her first 83 career games, she has started the last 15 contests, including all 10 Mid-American Conference games to date.
In MAC games only, Hoekstra has team-leading averages of 12.9 ppg and 8.7 rpg. She has hit a BG-best 20 three-pointers in conference contests.
Hoekstra, a guard, is ranked sixth in the MAC in rebounding in MAC games, and she is 13th in the league in scoring. She is second in the MAC in free-throw percentage, sixth in minutes played, tied for sixth in three-pointers made and 15th in three-point field-goal percentage in conference contests.
In all games, Hoekstra is ranked in the top 20 in the MAC in both scoring (14th) and rebounding (19th), and she is ranked in the top 10 in the league in free-throw percentage (second), three-pointers made (seventh) and three-point percentage (10th).
In the latest NCAA rankings, Hoekstra is eighth in the entire nation in free-throw accuracy. She has made 58-of-64 shots from the line this season, good for a success rate of 90.6 percent.
Hoekstra has scored in double digits in a team-leading 13 games this season, including eight of the 10 MAC games to date. She scored a career-high 22 points in BG's win at Saint Francis (Pa.) in December, and had 19 points, including a career-best five three-point field goals made, in Wednesday's (Feb. 4) game vs. Central Michigan.
In the classroom, Hoekstra has a perfect 4.000 cumulative grade-point average as a health science major.
Hoekstra was named to the District 5 team, which is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. To be nominated, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore, a starter or important reserve, and must carry a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher.
The 2015 Capital One Academic All-District® Men's and Women's Basketball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Capital One has been the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America teams programs since 2011.
First-team Academic All-District® basketball honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
The Academic All-District® teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. This is the fourth year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and has doubled the number of scholar-athletes honored. The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division Academic All-America ® Team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.
The Capital One Division II and III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2014-15 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams program.
Hoekstra was joined on the Capital One Academic All-District 5 First Team by Amanda Corral of Northern Illinois, Michigan's Nicole Elmblad, Dayton's Andrea Hoover and Ashley Luke of Western Illinois.
The Falcons of head coach Jennifer Roos head to Western New York for Saturday's (Feb. 7) contest against Buffalo. Tipoff is set for 2:00 p.m. at UB's Alumni Arena. Then, BGSU will return home to face MAC-leading Ohio on Wednesday night (Feb. 11) at 7:00 p.m., in the team's annual Play 4Kay/Pink Zone game.
Capital One Acad. All-District teams - Word | PDF
Hoekstra is the first BGSU women's basketball student-athlete to earn academic all-distrct honors in four years, since Maggie Hennegan was named to the team in 2011.
As an academic all-district first-team selection, Hoekstra's name will be added to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot.
Hoekstra, a native of East Lansing, Mich. (East Lansing), leads the Falcons in scoring and rebounding, with 11.6 points and 6.1 boards per game. She paces the Brown and Orange in three-point field goals made, with 38, and is tied for the team lead in steals. Hoekstra has played in all 21 games this season. After coming off the bench in each of her first 83 career games, she has started the last 15 contests, including all 10 Mid-American Conference games to date.
In MAC games only, Hoekstra has team-leading averages of 12.9 ppg and 8.7 rpg. She has hit a BG-best 20 three-pointers in conference contests.
Hoekstra, a guard, is ranked sixth in the MAC in rebounding in MAC games, and she is 13th in the league in scoring. She is second in the MAC in free-throw percentage, sixth in minutes played, tied for sixth in three-pointers made and 15th in three-point field-goal percentage in conference contests.
In all games, Hoekstra is ranked in the top 20 in the MAC in both scoring (14th) and rebounding (19th), and she is ranked in the top 10 in the league in free-throw percentage (second), three-pointers made (seventh) and three-point percentage (10th).
In the latest NCAA rankings, Hoekstra is eighth in the entire nation in free-throw accuracy. She has made 58-of-64 shots from the line this season, good for a success rate of 90.6 percent.
Hoekstra has scored in double digits in a team-leading 13 games this season, including eight of the 10 MAC games to date. She scored a career-high 22 points in BG's win at Saint Francis (Pa.) in December, and had 19 points, including a career-best five three-point field goals made, in Wednesday's (Feb. 4) game vs. Central Michigan.
In the classroom, Hoekstra has a perfect 4.000 cumulative grade-point average as a health science major.
Hoekstra was named to the District 5 team, which is made up of student-athletes from Division I schools in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. To be nominated, student-athletes must be at least a sophomore, a starter or important reserve, and must carry a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 or higher.
The 2015 Capital One Academic All-District® Men's and Women's Basketball Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Capital One has been the entitlement rights holder to CoSIDA's Academic All-America teams programs since 2011.
First-team Academic All-District® basketball honorees advance to the Capital One Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
The Academic All-District® teams are divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. This is the fourth year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and has doubled the number of scholar-athletes honored. The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division Academic All-America ® Team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.
The Capital One Division II and III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2014-15 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams program.
Hoekstra was joined on the Capital One Academic All-District 5 First Team by Amanda Corral of Northern Illinois, Michigan's Nicole Elmblad, Dayton's Andrea Hoover and Ashley Luke of Western Illinois.
The Falcons of head coach Jennifer Roos head to Western New York for Saturday's (Feb. 7) contest against Buffalo. Tipoff is set for 2:00 p.m. at UB's Alumni Arena. Then, BGSU will return home to face MAC-leading Ohio on Wednesday night (Feb. 11) at 7:00 p.m., in the team's annual Play 4Kay/Pink Zone game.
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