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April 4, 2008
Aponte Named to CACC Winter All-Academic Team
New Haven, Conn. (4/3/08) – University of the Sciences in Philadelphia women’s basketball player Emily Aponte has been named to the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Winter All-Academic Team as announced by the conference office today. Aponte (Dumont High School/Dumont, N.J.) is one of 15 women’s basketball players and six men’s player to earn 2007-08 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.
Aponte, a second-year biology major at USP, has a 3.576 grade point average. Emily has earned Dean’s List honors in all three semesters and was inducted in Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society in spring of 2007. Aponte is a founding member of the USP chapter of the American Medical Students Association and serves as the organization’s secretary.
A two-year member of the USP women’s basketball team, Aponte has appeared in 30 games for the Devils over the past two seasons.
Aponte is one of four athletes from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia earning CACC All-Academic honors during the 07-08 season, joining three others from the CACC Fall Academic Team. Since the CACC All-Academic program was instituted in the fall of 2005, a total of 37 different student athletes from the University of the Sciences have earned CACC All-Academic honors. Twenty–two of these 37 are repeat selections with eight of those earning All-Academic honors three time and one (Shelby Rance, PharmD ‘09, women’s basketball/women’s cross country) earning All-Academic honors six times over the past three years.
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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