Two players receive award for academic achievements

By By Paul Brand

Wednesday, March 2, 2005

The women’s basketball team has two players on the 2005 Academic All-Big 12 team first team, which was announced yesterday.

Senior forward Blair Waltz and junior forward Crystal Kemp were two of 21 repeat honorees in the Big 12 Conference.

Waltz, a French and economics major, was also placed on the All-Big 12 first team as a sophomore and won second team honors as a junior. Waltz is one of only 15 players in the league to be awarded academically for three seasons.

Kemp is on the All-Big 12 first team for the second time. Kemp, who also leads the Jayhawks in scoring and rebounding, is studying speech, language and hearing.

Overall, the Big 12 honored 37 first team student-athletes and placed nine on the second team. To qualify for first team honors, a grade point average of 3.20 or better must be reached. Second team qualifiers need to earn a GPA between 3.00 and 3.19. A GPA of 3.00 or higher is required in either cumulative grades or in the previous two semesters.

On the court, the players must compete in 60 percent of the team’s games to qualify for either team honors.

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