University of North Carolina Athletics
Shealy Earns Academic All-America Honors
June 11, 2015 | Field Hockey, Academics
North Carolina's Loren Shealy, a business administration major who graduated in May, has earned Academic All-America honors for the second time. A four-year member of the Tar Heel field hockey team, she was named to the 2015 Capital One Academic All-America Division I At-Large second team, announced on Thursday. She also earned a spot on the second team as a junior.
The Academic All-America women's at-large team draws from the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming and diving, tennis, water polo, bowling, crew and field hockey. Candidates must have at least a 3.3 cumulative grade point average to be eligible, but no one on the 2014-15 women's at-large first, second or third teams has lower than a 3.5.
Shealy, who is from Charlotte, N.C., was part of the prestigious Robertson Scholars program, taking classes at both UNC and Duke. She helped Carolina 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 Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a Top 10 Scholar-Athlete.
She is one of four Division I field hockey players to earn 2014-15 Academic All-America honors. The others are Duke's Lauren Blazing and Penn State's Laura Gebhart on the first team and Michigan's Sammy Gray on the third team.
Shealy was one of nine women honored from the Atlantic Coast Conference. Blazing and Notre Dame's Lee Kiefer (fencing) and Anna Kottkamp (rowing) were named to the first team. Notre Dame's Ashley Armstrong (golf) and Emma Heaney (swimming) were named to the second team, along with NC State's Elisha Hande (tennis), Louisville's Kelsey Worrell (swimming) and UNC's Shealy. Virginia's Courtney Swan (lacrosse) was named to the third team.
California swimmer Missy Franklin was named the All-America Team Member of the Year for women, while Penn State wrestler Matt Brown was honored for men.
ACC student-athletes on the men's at-large team were Virginia Tech's Devin Carter (wrestling, 1st), Syracuse's Kevin Rice (lacrosse, 1st), Pittsburgh's Tyler Wilps (wrestling), Clemson's Stephen Behr Jr. (golf, 3rd) and Notre Dame's Peter Schneider (ice hockey).