University of North Carolina Athletics
Three Tar Heels Earn Academic All-District Honors
May 14, 2015 | Field Hockey, Women's Tennis, Fencing, Academics
The three Tar Heels make up a quarter of the 12-member District 3 team, which draws from Division I schools in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Nominees must have at least a 3.3 cumulative grade point average. Candidates for the women's at-large teams come from the following sports: bowling, rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo. Those named to the all-district teams, of which there are eight, are now in the running for Academic All-America honors.
Carter, a sophomore from Hilton Head, S.C., earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors this season after being named 2014 ACC Freshman of the Year. She ranks No. 15 nationally in singles and No. 30 in doubles for the Tar Heels, currently competing as the No. 2 seed in the NCAA Championship. She is majoring in economics and serves as the team's Student-Athlete Advisory Council representative.
Carter is the only sophomore on the All-District 3 team, with the others juniors, seniors and graduate students.
Litynski, a senior this year who is continuing her studies at the UNC School of Nursing, is from Niskayuna, N.Y. She was the 2015 ACC Fencer of the Year for women's sabre and also earned the ACC title in that weapon. She capped her career with All-America honors for the third year in a row. A nursing/global studies double major, she is a recipient of an ACC Weaver-James-Corrigan postgraduate scholarship.
Shealy, a May graduate from Charlotte, was named to the Academic All-District team for the third year in a row. Last year, she went on to earn second-team Academic All-America honors. A business administration major, she helped UNC to the final four all four years of her career and was a three-year winner of the NCAA Elite 89 Award, becoming just the second student-athlete ever to earn the award the maximum number of times. An ACC Weaver-James-Corrigan postgraduate scholarship recipient, she also received UNC's Wells Fargo Postgraduate Scholarship and was honored as the senior student-athlete with the highest GPA.
The entire 2014-15 District 3 team is:
Lauren Blazing (Duke, field hockey); Hayley Carter (UNC, tennis); Alyssa Ritchie (UNCW, tennis); Elisha Hande (NC State, tennis); Loren Shealy (UNC, field hockey); Faith Johnson (Tennessee, swimming); Helen Doolittle (Liberty, field hockey); Courtney Swan (Virginia, lacrosse); Ellen Shaffrey (William & Mary, lacrosse); Gillian Litynski (UNC, fencing); Ekaterina Nekrasova (NC Central, tennis); Charity Byrum (Gardner-Webb, swimming)
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