 Meyer, Lisch Named to Division I-AAA Academic Teams
April 11, 2008
ST. LOUIS - Saint Louis basketball players Luke Meyer (New Haven, Mo./St. Francis Borgia) of the men's team and Theresa Lisch (Belleville, Ill./Althoff Catholic) of the women's team have been selected to the fifth annual Division I-AAA National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Scholar-Athlete Teams. Meyer was chosen for the second consecutive year, while Lisch's selection marks the fourth successive year a Billiken women's player has been honored. Meyer, who holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and is enrolled in the MBA program at Saint Louis, was named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VII first team and to the Atlantic 10 Academic All-Conference team for the second consecutive season. The Billikens' captain and the only player to start all 31 SLU games, he averaged 8.4 ppg and a team-high 5.4 rpg this season to go with 51 assists, 19 steals and 13 blocks. Meyer led the Bills in free-throw shooting (82.9 percent) and finished his career ranked third on SLU's all-time free-throw percentage list, connecting at an 83.2-percent clip during his four-year tenure. He was SLU's leading rebounder 10 times this season, including a season-high 11 boards at Saint Joseph's, and scored in double figures 12 times. Lisch, a communication sciences and disorders major, was selected to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference third team and to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District VII second team. In A-10 games only, she ranked fifth in scoring (16.5 ppg), seventh in free-throw percentage (83.8 percent), 10th in minutes (33.8 mpg) and tied for 10th in 3-point field goals (1.64 pg). She also averaged 5.4 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. In all games, Lisch led the Billikens in scoring (16.8 ppg), free-throw percentage (88.2 percent), free throws made and attempted (112-of-127), 3-point field goals (39) and steals (34) while averaging 5.0 rebounds and 3.4 assists per contest. She was named the A-10 co-Player of the Week Dec. 24 after netting a school-record-tying 35 points at Florida, the top scoring performance by an A-10 women's player this season and one of six games in which she topped the 20-point mark. Lisch joins Tyler McIlwraith, who was selected the past three years, as members of the SLU women's team who have garnered NACDA Scholar-Athlete status.
Basketball players from all Division I-AAA NACDA member institutions are eligible for these prestigious teams, which honor 10 men's players and 10 women's players. Nominees are required to have a minimum grade point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 scale) in undergraduate study and be a starter or important reserve with legitimate athletics credentials. He/she must have reached junior academic standing and participated in at least 50 percent of the team's games. Now in its seventh year, the Division I-AAA NACDA Athletics Directors Association's mission is to enhance initiatives common to its Division I-AAA membership (those Division I institutions that do not sponsor football), in particular, aspects related to their flagship basketball programs. |
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