Mastropole and Fitzpatrick Named to 2001 Verizon Academic All-AmericaFall/Winter Women's At-Large Teams
4/21/2001 9:47:29 AM | Swimming / Diving
For Mastropole, it marked her second appearance on the Academic All-America Team. Last year, she was voted a third-team All-American. A three-time Academic All-District honoree, Mastropole is a communicative sciences and disorders major with a perfect 4.0 grade point average. This season, she finished 18th at the BIG EAST Championship in the three-meter dive and was 21st in the one-meter event.
Fitzpatrick was a 2000 AstroTurf/National Field Hockey Coaches Association third-team All-American after scoring 21 points on six goals and nine assists. She was named first-team All-Mideast Region and first-team All-BIG EAST following her senior season. Fitzpatrick, a three-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star, has a 3.76 grade point average in nursing. This was her first time being recognized as an Academic All-American by Verizon or CoSIDA.
The Verizon Academic All-America Teams are selected by a vote of the 1,800-member CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America). To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve and maintain a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.20 on a scale of 4.00. Sports information directors nominate eligible student-athletes from their schools who are named to district teams prior to being voted upon the national level. CoSIDA has been selecting Academic All-America Teams since 1952.
