Complete CSC Academic All-District Release

BOSTON – Simmons volleyball seniors Claire Conners and Jayla Parnell along with junior Meghan Doxsee earned College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District honors announced by the organization on Tuesday afternoon.

It is the second straight year Parnell and Doxsee have received the academic recognition, while being a first time for Conners.

Selected to the All-GNAC first team for the third time in her collegiate career and finding herself amongst the national leaders in kills, Conners was also selected as a finalist for Academic All-America honors. The California native finished the season with 315 kills – fourth amongst conference leaders, while also notching a pair of double-doubles on the season.

Parnell followed her classmate, receiving the academic honors as second straight season. The Sharks outside hitter posted a career year with 228 kills, 197 digs and 16 total blocks to earn All-GNAC second team recognition. 

Doxsee rounded out the Sharks earning Academic All-District honors after leading the Sharks, defensively, tallying 79 total blocks – 64 block assists and 15 solo blocks.

To receive the honors, student-athletes must meet the following criteria: 

Academic standing:

• Student-athletes must be at least a sophomore academically and athletically.
• Student-athletes must be enrolled at their institution at the time of nomination either as undergraduates or graduate students. Only the school at which an athlete competed in the current academic year can nominate that player.
• Student-athletes who have graduated from their own institution during the current academic year and are not competing in athletics at another institution at the time of nomination are eligible.
• NEW in 2023-24- TRANSFER STUDENT-ATHLETES: The 12-month residency requirement for undergraduate transfers is no longer required. If your transfer student-athletes (undergraduates or graduates) are in their first semester at your institution, you must use their cumulative undergraduate GPA and cumulative graduate GPA (if grad GPA is applicable) from their former institution - which meets the 3.50 cumulative GPA - to be considered for Academic All-District/Academic All-America status. This would be the GPA or GPAs they used when gaining admittance to your institution. 

Academic eligibility:

• An undergraduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale).
• A graduate student-athlete must have at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) as both an undergraduate and a grad student unless they are in their first semester as a graduate student and don't have an established graduate GPA.
• The cumulative grade point average may not be rounded up to 3.50.
• First-semester transfers: See the information, above, for how to submit their GPA.

NEW: Athletic eligibility

• Fall fall sports (M/W Soccer, Volleyball, Football), student-athletes must compete in 90 percent of the institution's games/contests/sets played OR must start in at least 66 percent of the games/contests/sets.
• Similar athletic criteria for winter and spring sports are being developed and will be communicated to members soon. Considerations are being determined that are specific to certain individual/team sports.