BATON ROUGE — Two LSU student-athletes earned Verizon Academic All-American University Division Women’s At-Large honors on the national teams announced Thursday.
Women’s golfer Devon Day earned second team honors, while gymnast Lauren Companioni garnered third team honors.
The At-Large team covers student-athletes in sports such as crew, swimming and diving, golf, fencing, rifle, gymnastics, tennis, skiing, ice hockey and lacrosse.
Day, who will be entering her senior season on the women’s golf team of Coach Karen Bahnsen, has earned a cumulative 4.00 grade point average in Mass Communications. The Greer, S. C., native was honored as one of the four winners of the Wally Pontiff, Jr., Academic Excellence Award, given to the LSU student-athletes who are in at least their third year at LSU and have the highest cumulative grade point average among all student-athletes.
Day finished third overall in stroke average on the team, and was second in the spring portion of the season with a stroke average of 78.83.
Companioni finished her sophomore season for LSU’s nationally known gymnastics program under Coach D-D Breaux. Companioni helped guide the Tigers to its sixth appearance at the NCAA Championships in the last seven years and has a 4.00 GPA in Psychology.
She competed in 12 of the 14 meets this season and was honored as the SEC Gymnast of the Week after winning both the beam and floor titles against Arkansas. She was the 2003 Mortar Board Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
The Verizon Academic All-American Teams are chosen in conjunction with the College Sports Information Directors Association of America (CoSIDA).