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Kulikowski Receives Nation's Highest Academic-Athletic Honor
7/17/2003 12:00 AM | Gymnastics
July 17, 2003
STAMFORD, Conn. -
Verizon and the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) have chosen Utah gymnast Theresa Kulikowski as their Academic All-American of the Year. She becomes the first gymnast, as well as the first student-athlete from Utah, ever to receive the award.
The Academic All-American of the Year honor, which began in 1987-88, is awarded to the most outstanding student-athlete of the year and is chosen from the student-athletes who have been awarded Team Member of the Year honors. From over 360,000 student-athletes in the nation, just 816 are selected as Academic All-America Team members each year, 24 are selected as Team Members of the Year and two (Kenyon College swimmer Ashley Rowatt won the college division award) are named Academic All-American of the Year.
Kulikowski, who was recently selected as the Verizon Women's At-Large Team Member of the Year for the second consecutive year, is a 14-time All-American and three-time NCAA champion. She was voted the AAI Senior Gymnast of the Year by the nation's gymnastics coaches and holds school records for most career 10.0 scores (14) and most career victories (111). She previously was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship and was selected as the Mountain West Conference's Female Athlete of the Year. A 4.0 student, Kulikowski graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in psychology and exercise and sport science.
"With over 10,000 student athletes being nominated for Academic All-America? each year, and considering the number of athletes completing in intercollegiate sports, to reach the epitome of what it means to be a successful student-athlete and be selected as the best of the best is quite an amazing achievement," said Bentley College's Dick Lipe, Academic All-America chair at CoSIDA.
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