Carpenter Named To ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District

Rivier junior Blair Carpenter (Meredith, NH) has been named to the 2009 ESPN the Magazien/CoSida Academic All-District Basketball Team College Division Third Team.

This is the first national academic award for the Rivier College athletic department. Blair was the college's first Academic All-America nominee last season. Carpenter boasts a 3.806 GPA as an Elementary/Special Education major.

She currently leads the teams with a 17 points per game average. She is also pulling down 5.2 rebounds per outing from the shooting guard position. Carpenter eclipsed the 1000 point plateau earlier this season and has been named the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Player of the Week.

The College Sports Information Directors of America selects Academic All America teams in 12 programs: football, women’s volleyball, men’s soccer, women’s soccer, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, softball, men’s track & field/cross country, women’s track & field/cross country, men’s at large and women’s at large. A first team, second team and third team are selected in both the University (Division I and I-AA) and College (Division II, III and NAIA) Divisions.

Complete 2008-2009 Women's Basketball Selections