2019-20 Academic All-American Teams
AUSTIN, Texas – For the first time in program history, Carson-Newman women's basketball can tout an Academic All-American as Kayla Marosites added to her illustrious career with a third-team laurel announced on Tuesday by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) presented by Google Cloud.
The Elizabethton, Tenn. native becomes the 39th overall student-athlete to earn the plaudit and third during this academic calendar year joining football's Antonio Wimbush and women's soccer's Lira Mathes. Twenty-four of the school's honors have come over the last six years.
The senior guard is one of 15 members as she produced a 3.82 grade-point average in child and family studies increasing her GPA by nearly one tenth of a point from last year. There were only two players from the Southeast Region to make the list, both hailing from the South Atlantic Conference with Anderson's Alexy Mollenhauer earning a slot.
After being named a member of the SAC's all-tournament team, Marosites has upped her career awards tally to 23. A two-time first-team All-SAC selection, she is the sixth player to earn a slot on the first team multiple times in her career. The team's leading scorer is the fourth player in school history to be on the top two teams three times in her career joining Leah Jackson (four-time first-team pick), Heather Ford (three) and Shari Buford (three).
From a career perspective, her 58 career double-doubles are good for third in Division II and fourth among all three divisions. With an 11.3 rebounding average she is second in SAC history for a career ranking third nationally and is fourth in the country with 1,072 rebounds.
On the program's record watch list, she is one of five players in school history with 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds as she is seventh in scoring with 1,387 points, second in rebounding with 1,072 and fifth in made three-pointers with 157 over her three seasons at Mossy Creek.
Among her highlights from her senior season, she has won a single-season school record four SAC Player of the Week honors tying the high mark with six in her career. She has the top two single-season double-double marks with 23 on the year. Perhaps the best game of her career came on Nov. 13, 2019 against King when she scored 27 points and tied her own program record with 22 rebounds adding nine assists. She became the first Lady Eagle with a 20/20 game in the history in game No. 1,226. She earned USBWA National Player of the Week honors.
Marosites ranks in the top 10 in the country in double-doubles with 24, rebounds per game with 12.3, total rebounds, 370 while ranking in the top 20 in free-throw efficiency. The Volunteer State native has scored in double figures 29 times cresting 20 points 11 times. She has 25 double-digit rebounding efforts and two with 20 or more.
The Division II Google Cloud Academic All-America program is partially financially supported by the NCAA Division II national governance structures, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2019-20 Division II Academic All-America teams.
The Lady Eagles are back in action during the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Championships starting at noon on Friday against third-seeded Anderson in Greenwood, S.C.
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