Kathleen O'Gorman earns Academic Honor from CoSIDA

2017 Jun 21

Recent graduate Kathleen O'Gorman of Clifton Park has earned CoSIDA Academic All-District 3 First Team honors in softball. District 3 is made up of all the colleges in the state of New York and the honor allowed O'Gorman to be included on the national ballot.

O'Gorman capped her four-year softball career this spring with her greatest and most productive season as a Red Dragon. O'Gorman led Oneonta in almost every offensive category while leading the SUNYAC in hits (59) and total bases (89). Her on-field performance earned her First Team All-Conference and Third Team All-Region honors.

O'Gorman graduated with a Business Economics degree minoring in Business Communications. Her academic accolades include being a National Fast Pitch Coaches Scholar Athlete and being inducted into the National College Athlete Honor Society of Chi Alpha Sigma.

About the Academic All-America Program

To be eligible for nomination at the district level, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.

A student athlete is eligible for the national ballot only if he/she is named to the first team in one of the eight CoSIDA districts. Only members of the Academic All-America Committee, the CoSIDA Board of Directors and past presidents are eligible to vote on the national ballot, which amounts to just over 100 voters.

The Division III Academic All-America program is supported financially by the NCAA Division III national governance structure. The funding assists CoSIDA with the handling of the awards fulfillment aspects for all the DIII Academic All-America team programs.

This is the fifth 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.