Four Conference Carolinas Student-Athletes Earn CoSIDA Basketball Academic All-District Honors
GREENVILLE, S.C. - The 2021-22 Academic All-District® Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams, selected by CoSIDA, recognizes the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. Four Conference Carolinas student-athletes from three institutions earned recognition.
Blake Atwood from King, Spencer Levi of UNC Pembroke and Brian Sims Jr. of Lees-McRae earned men’s basketball honors while Trinity Lee of King earned women’s recognition.
A 6-1 guard from Mountain City, Tennessee, Atwood is a junior Physics major with a 3.81 grade point average and a 6.2 scoring average. He is shooting nearly 37 percent from the field and scored a season-high 19 points against Francis Marion on Dec. 3.
Levi, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, has a 3.55 GPA in Criminal Justice and is averaging 15.8 points and nine rebounds per game. A 6-8 forward, Levi ranks second in Conference Carolinas with a 71.1 percent shooting percentage and 45 blocks.
A senior History major, Sims Jr. has a 3.98 GPA in the classroom and the 5-11 guard from Birmingham, Alabama has appeared in 14 games with one start and is shooting nearly 40 percent from the field.
Lee, a 5-7 guard from Knoxville, Tennessee, is a senior Mathematics and Physics major with a 3.97 GPA. On the court she is averaging 15.7 points and 5.7 rebounds to go with 33 steals, a 41.6 percent shooting percentage and a 42.1 percent 3-point percentage. She scored a season-high 31 points at UNC Pembroke on Dec. 4.
The CoSIDA Academic All-America® program separately recognizes basketball honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in mid-March.
The CoSIDA Academic All-District® teams include the student-athletes listed on the following pages and are divided into geographic districts across the United States and Canada.
The Division II and III CoSIDA Academic All-America® programs are partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II and III national governance structures to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2021-22 Divisions II and III Academic
All-America® programs.
For more information about CoSIDA’s Academic All-District® and Academic All-America® Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com on CoSIDA.com. Read the full release
here.