The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Women's Soccer Players Receive Academic All-District Honors
11/7/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Nov. 7, 2003
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. --- UAB women's soccer players Briana McCarty and Jenny Rynders were named 2003 Academic All-District members on Friday as the first step in the process of being selected to the Academic All-America Team was completed by a vote of official CoSIDA members.
McCarty, the Blazers' First-Team All-Conference USA performer, was named to the Academic All-District First Team on Friday.
A native of Lawrenceville, Ga., McCarty started in all 19 of UAB's matches this season and has anchored the team's record-setting defense. The Blazers have registered a school-record nine shutouts during the 2003 campaign and UAB's junior owns a stellar 3.95 grade point average in psychology.
Rynders, who owns an impressive 3.36 GPA in business, received Third-Team Academic All-District honors on Friday.
UAB's junior midfielder was named to the All-C-USA Second Team earlier this week and scored the Blazers' lone goal against Charlotte on Wednesday. UAB advanced past Charlotte, 3-0, in a penalty-kick shootout in the quarterfinal round of the 2003 C-USA Tournament. Rynders, a native of Marietta, Ga., has scored six goals and added three assists for a total of 15 points this season.
The UAB women's soccer team owns a school-record 13-5-1 mark on the season and won its first outright C-USA regular-season championship. The Blazers will receive word on its at-large bid to the 2003 NCAA Tournament on Monday, Nov. 10, at 2:30 p.m. as the NCAA Tournament Committee announces its official 64-team field.
