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Press Release

Staten Island, NY – Junior Karen Prihoda (Hamilton Square, NJ / The Lawrenceville School) has been selected to the 2018 Google Cloud College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District ® Softball Team, marking the second consecutive season that she has earned this honor.
 
The CoSIDA Academic All-District ® Team recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performance on the field and in the classroom.
 
In the classroom. Prihoda carries a 3.91 GPA while majoring in Spanish. On the diamond, she was named an All-Northeast Conference (NEC) selection for the third consecutive season in 2018, after becoming the conference's regular season batting champion with a .380 average.
 
A utility player who played primarily at second base in 2018 for the Seahawks, Prihoda once again led Wagner in nearly every offensive category, while tying for second on the all-time single season list with 15 doubles, which also led the conference.
 
In addition, the New Jersey native finished second in the league with a .627 slugging percentage, 38 runs, and 54 hits this season.
 
"Karen's effort and excellence on the field, and in classroom, is truly commendable, said associate athletic director and senior women's administrator Tatum Colitz. "We are incredibly proud of her steadfast commitment to the student-athlete experience and know she will transition those qualities with ease in her pursuits as an educator."
 
To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director. Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 20,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
 
As a First-team Academic All-District ® honoree, Prihoda now advances to the Academic All-America® Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
 
Before earning her recent honors, Prihoda was already one of Wagner's most decorated softball players ever, after being named First-Team All-NEC in 2016 and 2017, NEC Rookie of the Year in 2016, and to the CoSIDA Academic All-District, and NFCA All-Region First-Teams in 2017.

About CoSIDA Academic All-America Program
CoSIDA began the distinguished Academic All-America® program in the 1950's, and since then, has honored thousands of deserving student-athletes from numerous sports and across all divisions with these elite Academic All-America® scholar-athlete honors. Currently, CoSIDA honors Academic All-Americas in 12 sports. The program is called: CoSIDA's Academic All-America program. For the sixth year in a row, the Academic All-America® program is comprised of four divisional teams, with student-athletes being honored separately in Division I, Division II and Division III. A fourth team - the College Division team - is comprised of NAIA, Canadian, and two-year student-athletes. (Formerly, there were two teams - University Division (D1) and a College Division (all others).

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