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DPU athletes win Capital One Academic All-American
DePauw's Paige Gooch, a May graduate and member of the women's golf team, has been selected to the 2014 Capital One Academic All-America Division III Women's At-Large First Team. She was a second team selection last year.
The team is selected by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) and the complete release is also available here.
Gooch earned a bachelor of arts degree and graduated cum laude. Through her first seven semesters, she carried a 3.70 cumulative grade point average with a major in economics and a minor in mathematics.
She also was a Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Alpha Sigma (National College Athlete Honor Society) inductee and a student in DePauw's Management Fellows Program. Earlier this spring she earned DePauw's Amy Hasbrook Award as the top senior female student-athlete.
Gooch joined Sarah Gates '07 as the only four-time all-America selections in DePauw women's golf history when she earned first team honors this year to go along with second team distinction each of her first three seasons.
This season Gooch posted a 78.2 stroke average over 25 rounds for the second-best average in a DePauw season and was named the North Coast Athletic Conference Women's Golfer of the Year for the second straight time after winning her second consecutive NCAC title. She earned similar honors in 2011 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference prior to being named the Division III Freshman of the Year.
Gooch finished her career with a 79.02 average over 98 rounds which broke the previous DePauw record held by Gates. This year she won five of the 11 tournaments in which she competed with 10 finishes in the top 10. Over her career she won 10 events and was a top-10 finisher 32 times.
During her four seasons, the Tigers finished no worse than eighth at the national championships and matched the program's best finish with a second-place showing in 2012. As an individual, Gooch finished in the top 14 three times in her four NCAA appearances.
In all, DePauw student-athletes have earned 52 Academic All-America honors since Ike Tallman's selection to the 1958 football team. The complete list of DePauw honorees is available here.
To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.
Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America honors on more than 20,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
DePauw's Jack Burgeson, a May graduate and member of the men's swimming and diving team, has been selected to the 2014 Capital One Academic All-America Division III Men's At-Large Second Team.
Burgeson earned a bachelor of arts degree and graduated summa cum laude. Through his first seven semesters, he carried a 3.89 grade point average with a major in biochemistry and a minor in philosophy.
A Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Alpha Sigma (National College Athlete Honor Society) inductee and a three-time Scholar All-America selection from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America, Burgeson earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship in May.
He was a student in DePauw's Science Research Fellows Program and is the founder and president of DePauw Donors organ donation program.
In May, he was selected as DePauw's Phil Eskew Award recipient as the top senior male student-athlete.
Burgeson helped the Tigers to top 20 finishes at each of the last three NCAA Division III Championships and was a member of six relays that earned all-America honorable mention distinction in his four years. The 200-yard medley relay that he anchored at the 2013 North Coast Athletic Conference Championships still holds the school record.
A an all-conference honoree all four years, Burgeson was part of the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relays that won Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championships in 2011.
He also was part of eight relays that earned all-North Coast Athletic Conference distinction by finishing in the top three in 2012 through 2014.