WILLIAMSBURG — Recent graduate Jayden Moon and rising senior Pyper Friedman were selected to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District Team on Tuesday.
The 2024 Academic All-District Women’s At-Large Teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. The CSC Academic All-America program separately recognizes tennis honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA — for each gender.
To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and be at least a sophomore academically and athletically. Each institution is limited to six nominees for the at-large categories, which includes beach volleyball, bowling, crew/rowing, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, and water polo.
Academic All-District honorees were considered for advancement to the CSC Academic All-America ballot. Designated student-athletes, including Friedman and Moon, were selected as CSC Academic All-America finalists and will advance to the national ballot to be voted on by CSC members. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America honorees will be announced July 16, 2024.
Moon and Friedman were starters that helped lead W&M field hockey to the 2023 CAA Championship and a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Friedman finished the year with 24 points on eight goals and eight assists to earn NFHCA All-America Third Team honors. She was an All-CAA and NFHCA All-South Region First Team honoree. Friedman was named to the NFHCA National Academic Squad, was a W&M Provost Award winner, and received high honors with distinction on the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll during the fall.
Moon earned All-CAA First Team honors and was named second team all-region. She posted two goals and six assists on the year from her midfield position. Moon was named to the CAA All-Tournament team in helping the Tribe to its second league crown. Academically, she was a 2023-24 CAA Institutional Female Scholar-Athlete Award winner, one of 14 finalists for the student-athlete of the year award. A four-time NFHCA All-Academic Squad selection and a four-year W&M Provost Award winner, Moon earned W&M’s Martha Barksdale Award as a rising senior who was an outstanding student
and teammate.
For more information about CSC Academic All-District and Academic All-America Teams program, visit AcademicAllAmerica.com.
