CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Lesley University women's volleyball student-athletes Jillian Donlan (Londonderry, N.H.), Korinne Hall-Johnson (North Brunswick, N.J.), Estephany Morales (New York, N.Y), and Alawnah Dunda (Fort Ann, N.Y.) were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team as announced by the organization earlier today
The 2024 Academic All-District® Volleyball teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. To qualify, student-athletes must have over a 3.5 GPA while playing in 90% of their team's matches.
In her second consecutive season, Donlan appeared on the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team with a 3.63 GPA. The elementary education major also earned 2023 North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Academic All-Conference honors in her first two seasons at Lesley.
On the court, she appeared in 27 matches for the Lynx and 59 of their sets, both career highs. She finished the season with 67 receptions, six of which came at Salem State on September 13.
Hall-Johnson earned her first College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team with a 3.65 GPA. The history major was also named captain by her teammates and was selected to the All-NAC Second Team.
This season, she led all NAC athletes in Digs (405) and Digs Per Set (4.55) and led the Lynx in sets played (89), Aces (40), Aces per Set (.45), and Receptions (630). She set a new school record in digs in a game with 48 on October 17 against VTSU Lyndon. Hall-Johnson was also named NAC Defensive Player of the week on 9/29 & 10/14.
This is Morales' first College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team honor. The Senior Business Management earned a 3.56 GPA.
On the court, she appeared in all 28 matches for the Lynx and all 87 of their sets, both career highs. She finished with 24 kills, 5 aces, and 210 attacks for Lesley, all career highs. She recorded 20 total attacks against Salem State on October 7.
Dunda finished the semester with a team-best 3.77 GPA. This is the dual-sport (basketball) Interactive Design major's first College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team.
The sophomore appeared in all 28 matches for the Lynx and all 88 of their sets, both career highs. This season, she recorded 107 Kills, 7 Solo Blocks, and 135 Total Points, all the second most among the Lynx. Dunda recorded 11 kills and 47 total points against VTSU Lyndon on October 17.
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.