CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Two student-athletes from the Lesley University softball team, utility player Marissa De La Rosa and first baseman Lauren Martin, were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team as announced by the organization.
To be eligible to earn CSC Academic All-District recognition, a student-athlete must own a cumulative GPA above 3.50 and have significant athletic credentials. Additionally, student-athletes must have competed in 90 percent of their institution's games or have started in at least 66 percent of its contests.
This is both De La Rosa's and Martin's first CSC Academic All-District Honor. De La Rosa earned a 3.88 in her junior year in the biology program. While Martin, also a junior, finished with a 3.67 while earning her degree in business.
On the field, De La Rosa appeared in 20 games for the Lynx and made her collegiate softball debut in the season opener on March 15th against the Westfield State Owls. In her 40 at bats she recorded four hits and two walks. She drove in two runs and scored two while also stealing a base. In addition to softball, she is also a member of the NAC Champion Lesley soccer team.
Since the conclusion of the season, Martin has been named Lesley's representative for the NAC All-Sportsmanship team and was named a captain for the upcoming season. On the diamond, she appeared in all 29 games for the Lynx. She led the team in at-bats, but she really shined in the field. She not only led the Lynx in double plays with eight, but she led the conference. Her 178 putouts were the most on the team and second in the NAC. She also finished with the second highest fielding percentage on the team with (.978).
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 4,400+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on August 31, 2022.
From its founding in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
CSC's membership first reached the 3,000 mark during the 2013-14 school year and has topped that threshold each year since with the exception of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic year. The membership base reached 4,000 for the first time in 2022-23.
Prior to the formation of the organization as CoSIDA in the mid-1950s, sports information directors as a group were a part of the American College Public Relations Association. Most SIDs at those ACPRA meetings eventually felt that a separate organization was needed and that led to CoSIDA's formation. There were 102 members at the original meeting/convention in 1957.