Capital One Academic All-District Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams
IRVINE, Calif. – Four PacWest student-athletes were named to the Capital One Academic All-District 8 Basketball Teams, released on Thursday. Chaminade senior
Lee Bailey and Dominican junior
Matt Hayes were men’s selections; and Azusa Pacific junior
Kelly Hardeman and BYU-Hawaii senior
Whitney Fieldsted were women’s selections.
Bailey has a 3.39 grade-point average in communications and is the president of Chaminade’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC). A preseason All-PacWest selection, he ranks 10
th in the conference in assists (3.4 apg), 12
th in steals (1.3 spg) and 21
st in scoring (12.2 ppg).
Hayes has a 3.57 grade-point average in chemistry. He ranks 12
th in the PacWest in scoring (14.7 ppg), 16
th in rebounding (5.3 rpg), seventh in three-point field goal percentage (39.9%) and ninth in steals (1.3 spg).
Hardeman has a 3.58 GPA in liberal studies. She is second in the PacWest in scoring (19.8 ppg), sixth in rebounding (9.4 rpg), fourth in blocks (2.1 bpg) and eighth in field goal percentage (38.8%). She was a preseason All-PacWest selection and won the first two PacWest Player of the Week honors this season.
Fieldsted has a 3.95 GPA in exercise science education. She ranks fifth in the PacWest in rebounding (9.6 rpg) and 35
th in scoring (10.1 ppg).
All four student-athletes will be listed on the Capital One Academic All-America ballot, with three teams from Division II announced 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.