IWU’s Irwin Earns Academic All-District Honors

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — For the second straight year, Illinois Wesleyan University’s Lindsey Irwin has been elected to the first team of the District Five College Division all-academic at-large squad and will join representatives of seven other districts on the ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-America national ballot.
At-large athletes are chosen from among the sports of swimming, rifle, golf, tennis, ice hockey and gymnastics.
Irwin, a tennis player from Belleville, Ill. (West HS), graduated April 30 with a 3.96 grade-point average (on a 4.0 scale) as a Spanish major. She was named to the first team of the all-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin women’s tennis team for four straight years as she finished the 2005 season with a 10-10 record as IWU’s No. 1 singles player and was 13-8 at No. 1 doubles.
Playing primarily at No. 1 singles her entire career, Irwin is No. 16 in IWU career singles victories with a 44-28 record (.611). As a sophomore, junior and senior, Irwin was third in the CCIW championship tournaments at both No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles and was second at No. 1 singles in the CCIW as a freshman, when she was IWU’s “Most Valuable Player.”
Irwin is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Lambda Delta academic honoraries, along with Phi Beta Delta (for international scholars) and Sigma Delta Pi (Spanish) honoraries.
The all-district teams were chosen by a vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario. To be considered for the ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-America squads, players must be of at least sophomore standing, have a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 (of 4.0), and be a starter or first-line reserve.

May 25, 2006; contact: Stew Salowitz, salowitz@iwu.edu