{"id":10602,"date":"2010-02-24T10:51:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=10602"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:42:37","slug":"maya-moore-named-academic-all-america-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/02\/maya-moore-named-academic-all-america-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Moore Named Academic All-America of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maya Moore. Photo supplied by the Division of Athletics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maya Moore<\/a> continues to excel both in the classroom and on the basketball court as a student-athlete representing UConn. Moore has been named as the 2010 ESPN The Magazine<\/em> Academic All-America of the Year<\/a> for women\u2019s basketball in the University division, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).<\/p>\n

A first team Academic All-America selection for the second year in a row, Moore is an individualized major with a 3.70 GPA in her third year of studies. She joins UConn trustee Rebecca Lobo, a basketball analyst for ESPN, and Leigh Curl, orthopedic surgeon for the Baltimore Ravens in the National Football League, as the third Husky women\u2019s basketball player to earn multiple first team Academic All-America honors.<\/p>\n

Moore also is the third UConn women\u2019s basketball player to earn ESPN The Magazine<\/em> Academic All-America of the Year status, now standing with Lobo (1995) and Jennifer Rizzotti (1996), head coach of the nationally-ranked University of Hartford women\u2019s basketball team.<\/p>\n

The second-leading scorer in the BIG EAST Conference with an 18.1 average this season, Moore has helped guide the Huskies to a perfect 27-0 start this season. Moore and the Huskies have compiled a 66-game winning streak \u2013 the second-longest in NCAA Division I women\u2019s basketball history \u2013 second only to Connecticut\u2019s previous 70-game run in 2002-2003. She is currently fewer than 100 points away from becoming the seventh player in Connecticut history to reach 2,000 points.<\/p>\n

Moore is joined on the ESPN The Magazine<\/em> Academic All-America Women\u2019s Basketball University Division first team by senior Kelsey Luna of Indiana State, junior Erin Anthony of West Point, junior Angie Bjorklund of Tennessee, and junior Liz Repella of West Virginia.<\/p>\n

The five student-athletes selected to the first team have an average GPA of 3.85. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his\/her current institution, and be nominated by his\/her sports information director.<\/p>\n

Since the program\u2019s inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 15,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III, and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moore becomes the third UConn women\u2019s basketball player to receive this top national academic honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[40],"class_list":["post-10602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 17:56:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10602"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37512,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602\/revisions\/37512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10602"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=10602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}