Witt Earns CoSIDA Academic All-America Honor

OMAHA, Neb. -- Creighton's Brittany Witt has been named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I Women's Volleyball team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Witt joins Emily Greisch (2006, Third Team), Megan Bober (2012, Second Team), Jaali Winters (2017 Third Team and 2018 Second Team) and Taryn Kloth (2018, Third Team) as Creighton Volleyball players to earn Academic All-America recognition from CoSIDA. Witt is the only student-athlete on any of the 2019 CoSIDA Division I Volleyball Academic All-America teams from a school in Nebraska, and joins Marquette's Allie Barber in representing the BIG EAST on the prestigious teams.

Witt, who owns a 3.86 GPA in Exercise Science, is a Third Team CoSIDA Academic All-American honoree. Creighton, Michigan State and defending national champion Stanford are the only schools in the nation with at least one women's volleyball Academic All-American each of the past three seasons. In addition, the four Academic All-America honors collected by Creighton and Michigan State over the past three seasons are tied for the most of any volleyball programs in the country.

Witt was named BIG EAST Libero for the second time in her career in 2019 after leading the league with 5.09 digs per set. The senior had nine or more digs in all 31 matches this fall, and finished with a school-record 2,079 career digs. Witt had a career-high 35 digs in a win at No. 10 Marquette on October 12th and was named First Team All-BIG EAST for the second time in her career. The Omaha native will graduate in May from Creighton.

Of the 21 members of the 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I volleyball team, 15 have at least a 3.90 GPA, with 12 student-athletes sporting a 4.0 GPA or better. Six of the seven members of the first team all have a GPA of 3.98 or better. Two-time BIG EAST Player of the Year Allie Barber from Marquette was named the CoSIDA Academic All-America of the Year in volleyball.

CoSIDA, which stands for College Sports Information Directors of America, takes into account the academic and athletic achievements of student-athletes, and began honoring student-athletes in 1952. To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. Nominated athletes must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games, and no student-athlete is eligible until he/she has completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and has reached sophomore athletic eligibility. In the cases of transfers, graduate students and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible. Graduate students who are competing at a different institution than the one from which they earned their undergraduate degree are eligible even if they are in their first semester at the graduate institution.

Creighton finished the 2019 season with a 25-6 record, won a sixth consecutive BIG EAST regular-season title. The Bluejays are coached by Kirsten Bernthal Booth.

NCAA DIVISION I
CoSIDA Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year: Allie Barber, Marquette University

FIRST TEAM
Name                                         School                                                         Yr.        GPA           Major
Allie Barber                                Marquette University                                   Sr.         3.98            Biomedical Sciences
Madison Green                         Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi        Sr.         4.00            Biology
Sydney Hilley                            University of Wisconsin                               Jr.         3.79            Genetics & Genomics
Meghan McClure                      Stanford University                                      Jr.         4.00            Science, Technology & Society
Samantha McLean                   Michigan State University                           Sr.         4.00            Pre-Medicine / Kinesiology
Leah Meyer                               University of Kentucky                                Gr.        4.00            MBA
Paige Miles                                U.S. Naval Academy                                   Sr.         4.00            Quantitative Economics

SECOND TEAM
Name                                         School                                                         Yr.        GPA           Major
Camryn Allen                             Towson University                                       Jr.         4.00            Biology
Whitney Brown                          Robert Morris University                             Jr.         4.00            Biology
Audriana Fitzmorris                   Stanford University                                      Sr.         3.51            Human Biology
Paulina Hougaard-Jensen        Colorado State University                           Sr.         3.96            Business Administration
Laura Masciullo                         Hofstra University                                        Sr.         3.97            Mathematical Business Economics
Jordan Thompson                     University of Cincinnati                                Gr.        3.59 /3.67   Criminal Justice
Micaya White                             University of Texas                                      Sr.         3.57            Psychology

THIRD TEAM
Name                                         School                                                         Yr.        GPA           Major
Brynn Carlson                            Kansas State University                              Gr.        4.00            Nutrition, Dietectics & Sensory Sciences (G)
Morgan Hash                             Georgia State University                             Sr.         4.00            Public Health
Amelia Johnson                         Liberty University                                         Gr.        4.00            Interdisciplinary Studies (UG) / Public Health (G)
Katie Oleksak                            Colorado State University                           Sr.         3.79            Health & Exercise Science
Abby Stomp                               Northern Arizona University                        Sr.         4.00            Biology
Lauren Swartz                           Michigan State University                           Gr.        4.00            Economics (UG) / Marketing Research (G)
Brittany Witt                               Creighton University                                    Sr.         3.86            Exercise Science

Players Mentioned

Taryn Kloth

Jaali Winters

Brittany Witt

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