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Nov. 13, 2009

CEDAR FALLS - University of Northern Iowa sophomore Kala Negus has earned honorable mention Missouri Valley Conference scholar-athlete honors the league announced Friday.

A total of 34 student-athletes were nominated for the Valley's scholar-athlete team. The criteria for the honor parallels the CoSIDA standards for Academic All-America voting. Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA (on a 4.00 scale).  Also, students must have participated in at least 75 percent of the regular-season matches or the State Farm MVC Championship.  Student-athletes must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at their institution (true freshmen and redshirt freshmen were not eligible) and must have completed at least one full academic year at their institution.  Sports Information Directors at MVC institutions voted for the team.

Negus carries a 3.73 GPA in business and played in all 15 of the Panthers games, starting seven. She scored her first goal of the season in the Panthers regular-season opener, helping the Panthers to a 3-0 win over South Dakota. Negus also scored the Panthers lone goal in a 2-1 loss to Drake. She took 14 shots this season with six being on-goal.

FIRST TEAM

^Samantha Aguilar, Missouri State Sr. 3.39 Speech Language Pathology
**~Erin Bianchi, Indiana State Sr. 4.00 Nursing
~Bethany Brown, Illinois State Jr. 4.00 Criminal Justice
Jessica Carlson, Illinois State So. 3.70 Elementary Education
Alison Gasparovich, Indiana State So. 3.89 Nursing
**~Melissa Lewis, Drake Sr. 3.80 Advertising Account Mgmt/Mktg.
^Raquel Rattray, Illinois State  Sr. 3.63 English
Jordan Reppell, Missouri State Jr. 3.63 Chemistry
~Alyssa Schulz, Illinois State Jr. 3.89 Elementary Education
Jessica Teahan, Missouri State So. 3.73 Social Work
Morgan Wendlandt, Indiana State So. 4.00 Marketing
Kellee Widener, Evansville Gr. 3.84 Management / Marketing
^~Claire Zach, Creighton Jr. 3.85 Pre-Med
  *indicates number of consecutive years named first-team scholar-athlete;

 ^honorable mention all-MVC scholar-athlete in 2008

Honorable Mention

Afton Delvecchio, Illinois State So. 4.00 Family / Consumer Science
~Eden Hingwing, Creighton Jr. 3.70 Psychology
~Kyla Hoskins, Creighton Sr.  3.44 Pre-Med
Kasey Kutzler, Evansville Sr. 3.52 Sociology
Alicia Montgomery, Creighton So. 3.82 Undeclared
Kala Negus, UNI So. 3.73 Business
Katlin Owens, Indiana State Sr. 3.43 Exercise Science
Jessica Smits, Missouri State Sr. 3.57 Exercise / Movement Science
  ~indicates 2009 CoSIDA ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District