Bennett earns CoSIDA Academic All-Region Honors
KANSAS CITY - For the second-straight season super senior Elyse Bennett has been to the 2021 Academic All-District® Women's Soccer Team, this year earning first team distinction, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Bennett, who is pursuing her second degree at WSU, has posted a 3.85 GPA in five-years on the Palouse. She previously earned a degree in biology in three years before turning her focus to psychology. The super senior finished the regular season one of the top scorers in the Pac-12 netting a career-best 10 goals to lead the Cougs to one of their finest regular seasons in program history and another berth in the NCAA Tournament. She is a three Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll award winner as well as a 2020-21 United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-Region Second Team honoree.
To be eligible for Scholar All-Region recognition, student-athletes must hold a 3.40 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) or better throughout their career, start more than 50 percent of all games, significantly contribute to their team and be a junior or above in academic standing. Bennett is now eligible to be named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® team which will be voted on in the coming week.
2021 CoSIDA Academic All-District® Women's Soccer Team
NCAA DIVISION I – DISTRICT 8 (AK, AZ, CA, HI, OR, UT, WA, Canada)
FIRST TEAM
GK - Leah Freeman, Oregon, So., 4.00, Political Science
D - Lieske Carleer, Arizona State, Jr., 4.00, Kinesiology
D - Naomi Girma, Stanford, Sr., 3.92, Symbolic Systems (UG)/Management Science & Engineering (G)
D - Brianne Riley, UCLA, Jr., 3.71, Sociology
D - Emily Smith, California, Sr., 3.93, Applied Mathematics & Data Science
M - Mikayla Colohan, BYU, Sr., 3.63, Exercise and Wellness
M - Maya Doms, Stanford, Jr., 3.40, Human Biology
M - Sierra Enge, Stanford, Sr., 3.87, Science, Technology & Society
M - Kaylee Nguyen, California, Jr., 3.87, English
M - Eva van Deursen, Arizona State, Sr., 4.00, Kinesiology
F - Jill Aguilera, Arizona, Gr., 3.85/4.00, Nutritional Science (UG) / Real Estate Development (G)
F - Elyse Bennett, Washington State, Sr., 3.85, Psychology
F - Kelsey Turnbow, Santa Clara, Gr., 3.51/3.93, Management