Illinois Wesleyan University senior Sara Kummer has been elected to the third team of the GTE College Division Academic All-America® softball team.
 An outfielder from Normal (U High), Kummer is a business administration major with a 3.62 grade-point average. A two-time District Five all-academic selection, she was one of 34 IWU students honored as a "Distinguihsed Business Senior." She is a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, was inducted into the Order of Titans honorary, and was a First National Bank scholarship recipient. She was also the spring sports honoree on the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin all-academic squad.
 This spring Kummer batted .351 and led the Titans with 38 runs batted in, 30 runs scored, and six home runs. She was named to the all-CCIW squad and second team all-Great Lakes region.
 Kummer finished her career as IWU's all-time leader in doubles (36) and homers (13), second in runs (108), RBI (116) and games (166); third in hits (163); fourth in triples (14); seventh in stolen bases (32); and her career .332 batting average is 11th best in school history.
 She was also an all-CCIW and all-Midwest Region selection as a sophomore.
 Kummer is the daughter of Tami and Paul Clark, 103 S. Parkside, Normal, and Tom Kummer.
 Her selection brings to 95 the total number of Academic All-America berths earned by IWU student-athletes since the program began in 1970. Only Nebraska, Notre Dame, and Bucknell have more total Academic All-Americans than Illinois Wesleyan.
 To be considered for the GTE 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. The teams are chosen by a voting board representing the 1,800 members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
 Senior pitcher Kelly Schade from Division III national champion Simpson College was elected the softball "Academic All-American of the Year." The Osceola, Iowa, native has a 3.94 grade-point average as an economics major and posted a 37-3 record with 25 shutouts and 371 strikeouts this spring.
  IWU, founded in 1850, enrolls about 2,000 students in a College of Liberal Arts, College of Fine Arts, and a four-year professional School of Nursing. A $15 million athletics and recreation center opened in the fall of 1994 and a $25 million science center opened in fall 1995. The $5.1 million Center for Liberal Arts, a facility housing 60 faculty offices, six classrooms, and other facilities for social science, humanities, business and economics, and interdisciplinary studies' faculty, opened in August 1997, as did a new $6.8 million residence hall. The Carnegie Commission for the Advancement of Teaching promoted Illinois Wesleyan to a "Baccalaureate I" institution in 1994, a classification that places it among 161 highly-selective National Liberal Arts Colleges in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings. Barron's Profiles of American Colleges, another respected college guide, rated IWU "highly competitive +" in its latest edition.