Press
Release
April 11, 2007
Rance
Named to CACC Winter All- Academic Team
Earns
Conference Academic Honors for Sixth Time
New
Haven, CT (4/11/07) – The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
(CACC) has announced its All-Academic team for the 2006-07 winter athletic
season today. University of the Sciences in Philadelphia women’s basketball
player Shelby Rance was one of 14 women’s basketball
players and four men’s basketball players appearing on the list, becoming
the first CACC student-athlete to be named to six CACC All-Academic Teams
since the program’s inception in 2004-05.
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.
Rance (Central Columbia HS/Bloomsburg, PA), a pharmacy
major pursuing a Doctor of Pharmacy degree at USP, has a 3.543 grade point
average. Shelby has been named to the CACC Fall
Academic Team three times (2004, 2005, and 2006) as a member of the women’s
cross country team. Rance was also a member of the
2004-05 and 2005-06 CACC Winter All-Academic Team.
Rance is one of ten athletes from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia earning CACC All-Academic honors during the 06-07 season, joining nine others from the CACC Fall Academic Team. Since the CACC All-Academic Program was instituted in 2004, a total of 30 different student-athletes from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia have earned CACC All-Academic honors on either the fall winter or spring teams. Fifteen have been honored at least twice with three athletes becoming three-time recipients in the fall and Rance becoming the conference’s first six-time recipient with her selection today.
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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