DENVER – Three WAC women's basketball players – Alyssa Charlston of Idaho, Rebecca Dew of Hawai‘i and Kate Kevorken of Nevada – have earned Capital One Academic All-District honors from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). All three now advance to the national ballot for Academic All-America consideration.
Charlston, a sophomore forward from Sammamish, Wash., has a 4.0 cumulative grade-point average in broadcasting and digital media. She was named WAC Player of the Week earlier this season after averaging 18.0 points on 50 percent shooting from the field and 71 percent shooting from three-point range, 5.0 rebounds and 1.5 blocks. Charlston was named Academic all-WAC last year as a freshman.
Dew, a 6-4 post player from Auckland, New Zealand, boasts a 4.0 GPA as an English major in the honors program. She is also a Golden Key International Honour Society and Phi Beta Kappa member and is a 2012 candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship. Dew has earned Academic all-WAC honors all three seasons and has been a Dean's List honoree every semester. She was selected to the second team last year and is just the second player from UH to earn the award twice in her career.
A senior forward from Westlake Village, Calif., Kevorken has a 3.86 GPA as a community health sciences major. In her second season with the program after transferring from Northern Colorado, Kevorken was named WAC Player of the Week earlier this season when she hit the game-winning shot, scored a career-high 25 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for her second career double-double in a win over Oregon. She was named Academic all-WAC last season.
In order to be eligible for the team, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA (on a 4.0 scale) at her current institution and have reached sophomore athletic eligibility.
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