Field Hockey's Javelet Earns Academic All-America Honors
June 16, 2006 | Field Hockey
June 16, 2006
University of Louisville field hockey player Jessica Javelet has been named to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's At-Large first team. This marks the second consecutive season, she has earn Academic All-America honors.
Javelet, a Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. native, carries a 4.0 GPA in marketing. As a junior, she led the nation in scoring with 30 goals and 74 points. She was the 2005 BIG EAST Co-Offensive Player of the Year and a two-time STX/National Field Hockey Coaches Association Division I All-America selection. Javelet is also a two-time All-West Region first team member and a 2005 Field Hockey Honda Award finalist. She holds the school records for career, season and single game goals and points.
Javelet earned ESPN The Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-American second team honors in 2005 and is a three-time member of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Academic Squad.
The Academic All-America Teams program honors 816 male and female student-athletes annually who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom. Individuals are selected through voting by CoSIDA (the College Sports Information Directors of America), a 2,000 member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
To be eligible, a student-athletes must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 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 programs inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA covering all NCAA championship sports.
