Tusculum College men's tennis student-athletes Steven Lin and Luis Zamora has been named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-District III Men's At-Large Team for NCAA Division II, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced Thursday.

Lin and Zamora advance to the Academic All-America® ballot, which will be announced in early June. Men's at-large sports include fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

Lin compiled an 11-8 singles record and a 13-6 doubles mark for the Pioneers in 2011-12, including winning streaks of seven matches in singles and doubles, and was named SAC Player of the Week for the week ending February 26.

The Ping Dong, Taiwan native compiled a career singles record of 50-17 and 48-26 in doubles and was a two-time All-South Atlantic Conference second team selection. Lin was a member of the ITA Scholar-Athlete Team, the Tusculum Athletic Director's Honor Roll and the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll.

A recent graduate of Tusculum with a 3.78 grade-point average as a biology major, Lin plans to attend dental school and become an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.

Zamora, a native of Santiago, Chile and a team captain, played primarily at number-three singles and number-one doubles, earning four singles victories and seven wins in doubles for the Pioneers this season.

In the classroom, the two-time ITA Scholar-Athlete selection boasts a 3.96 GPA majoring in business management and economics. He is a multi-year selection to the SAC Commissioner's Honor Roll, the Tusculum Athletic Director's Honor Roll, the Charles Oliver Gray Honor List and the Tusculum Dean's List.

Zamora is a member of the Alpha Chi Honor Society -- which acknowledges the top-10 percent of each class - and is a two-time Duffield Award recipient, an honor given to the Tusculum student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA.

An active member in the local community as well, Zamora is heavily involved with groups including the Tusculum Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, "Help Me Help You, Inc.", the TC Bonner Leader's Program and the TC Business Club.

He is also in the process of creating a Center for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship at Tusculum, and is the founder and president of the Study Abroad and Global Awareness organization on campus.

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.

This is the first year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moves from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and doubles the number of scholar-athletes honored. The teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III participants, while the College Division team combines NAIA, Canadian and two-year schools.

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 2011‐12 DII and DIII Academic All-America® teams program.