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March 26, 2009
Rotz Named to CACC Winter All-Academic Team
New Haven, Conn. (3/26/09) – University of the Sciences in Philadelphia women’s basketball player Melissa Rotz has been named to the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Winter All-Academic Team as announced by the conference office today. Rotz (Central Dauphin High School/Harrisburg, Pa.) is one of 19 women’s basketball players and seven men’s player to earn 2008-09 CACC Winter All-Academic honors.
In order to be named to the CACC All-Academic team, recipients must have participated in a winter CACC Championship sport, be at least a sophomore academically and athletically, have been a student at their current school for at least two semesters, and achieve a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.50 or higher.
Rotz, a pharmacy major in her first professional year (third overall) in the university’s Doctor of Pharmacy program, currently sports a 4.00 grade point average. Melissa has earned Dean’s List honors in each of her five semesters at the institution and was recently awarded the Jules Ann Bravyak Keegan scholarship as an outstanding student entering their first professional year of the institution’s Doctor of Pharmacy program. Rotz was also inducted into the Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society in the spring 2007 semester.
A sophomore athletically, having red-shirted her first year, Rotz moved into a starting role midway through this season after being the first guard off the bench. Melissa was second on the team in assists (63) and third in three-point field goals made (9) while playing in all 28 games this season. The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania native recorded a career high 16 points against Nyack College earlier this season.
Rotz
is one of six athletes from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
earning CACC All-Academic honors during the 08-09 season, joining five others
from the CACC Fall Academic Team.
Melissa is just the fifth USP women's basketball player to
earn CACC All-Academic honors since the programs inception in 2004. A total
of 42 different student athletes from the University of the Sciences have
earned CACC All-Academic honors a total of 77 times since the program began.
Twenty-two of these 42 are repeat selections with eleven of those earning
All-Academic honors three times and one (Shelby Rance ‘09, women’s basketball/women’s
cross country) earning All-Academic honors six times over the past four-plus
years. (The first and one of only two CACC student-athletes to do so.)
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia is a private, coeducational institution founded in 1821 as Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, the first college of pharmacy in North America. Comprising four colleges across a broad range of majors, USP specializes in educating students for rewarding careers through its undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs in the health and related sciences. The Devils’ athletic department sponsors 12 NCAA Division-II varsity sports, four for men, six for women, plus two coed sports.
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