GREENEVILLE, Tenn. --- For a second straight year, Tusculum College Women's golf student-athlete Jillian Corum has been named to the Capital One NCAA Division II Academic All-District III Women's At-Large Team for NCAA Division II, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Thursday.
Corum advances to the Academic All-America® ballot, which will be announced next month. Women's at-large sports include: bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo.
Last year, Corum became the first Tusculum Women's golfer to earn Academic All-America® honors when she was named to the Capital One Academic All-America® Women's At-Large third team.
Corum competed in 20 rounds for the Pioneers this season and averaged 78.60 strokes per round to rank second on the team and fifth-best in program history. She had one tournament win and six top-10 finishes in 10 events, and shot 238 at last month's South Atlantic Conference Championship where she finished in seventh place and earned a spot on the SAC All-Tournament Team for a third straight year.
The Knoxville native was named to the All-South Atlantic Conference first team for a second time and was also honored as the SAC Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year.
She graduated from Tusculum earlier this month with a 3.64 cumulative grade-point average as a business administration major. Corum is a member of the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll and the Tusculum Athletic Director's Honor Roll.
Corum helped the Tusculum women's golf team to a pair of wins this season, while finishing third or better in seven events, including runner-up honors at the SAC Championship.
Corum leaves Tusculum as one of the most successful golfers in school history. She won a program-record five tournaments and posted the second-lowest career stroke average in TC history at 79.93.
Members of the Capital One Academic All-District 3 Team are selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), which includes all colleges and universities in the South Atlantic Conference, Conference Carolinas and Peach Belt Conference.
The Capital One Division II and III Academic All-America® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2012-13 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams program.
- CoSIDA -
2013 Capital One NCAA Division II Academic All-District
III Women's At-Large Team
(as selected by CoSIDA)
Student-Athlete, School Sport
Mona Blauen, Francis Marion Tennis
Lisa Brandl, Newberry Golf
Jillian Corum, Tusculum Golf
Julia Daneshfar, Newberry Golf
Valerie Dembny, Wingate Swimming
Kelli Ferguson, Wingate Tennis
Barbora Krtickova, Armstrong Tennis
Ivana, Krommelova, Clayton State Tennis
Olivia Myers, Catawba Tennis
Christina Rustscheff, Queens (N.C.) Tennis
Victoria Thomas, Newberry Lacrosse
Mia Winterbottom, UNC Pembroke Tennis
