COMPLETE CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Lesley University women's basketball guard Leila Chisholm (Santa Barbara, Calif.) was 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 will be Chisholm's first CSC Academic All-District Honor, as the junior guard is working toward a degree in History while posting a 3.75 GPA.
Chisholm had strong impact in the Lynx's 10-win turnaround season as she started in all 25 games and scored a total of 244 points (9.8 ppg) while tying her career-high of 23 points in a win at Fisher College (Jan. 28) on an efficient 10-19 shooting. She also was the team leader in assists with 76 assists (3.0 APG) on the year and dished out a season-high eight helpers in a win at SUNY Delhi (Dec. 6).
Defensively, she swiped a career and NAC-high 70 steals (2.8 SPG) and was tied for 27th in the nation in steals. Chisholm finished the year with five games in which she recorded 5+ steals, including a career-high seven at UMPI (Jan. 7).
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 found 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.