Presbyterian’s Wessinger Named to ESPN The Magazine® Third Team Academic All-America® Squad

CLINTON, S.C. - Presbyterian College women's basketball player Rebecca Wessinger has been named to the 2006 ESPN The Magazine® Academic All-American Women's Basketball Third Team announced today. Wessinger is the only South Atlantic Conference representative in women's basketball on the Academic All-American teams.

Wessinger, a 5-9 senior forward from Laurens, S.C., has been named to the first team All-District squad for the last two seasons and has just been named to the SAC All-Conference First Team.She has started all 27 games this season and currently leads her team and ranks fifth in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) in scoring (15.6 ppg). In addition, she is also averaging 4.2 rpg, 2.0 apg, while shooting 45.4% from the field, 40.4% from three-point range, and 73.9% from the free throw line.

She has scored 20+ points on seven occasions and scored in double figures in 22 of 27 games. Wessinger ranks 11th in the SAC in free throw percentage and 13th in offensive rebounding.

For her career, she has scored 1,368 points which ranks fifth-best in program history. In addition, she ranks eighth in career made field goals (457) and fourth in made free throws (424). In SAC history, she is tied for eighth-best with 102 career starts.

In the classroom, she carries a cumulative GPA of 3.94 while majoring in biology. She has been selected to the South Atlantic Conference Academic Honor for three straight years, while being named to the school's Dean's List (3.3 GPA) for four semesters and to the President's List (4.0 GPA) for three semesters.

Wessinger moves into elite company in Blue Hose history with this honor. Since the athletic department moved to NCAA Division II in 1993, eight student-athletes have been named to the Academic All-American Teams. Rebecca Hardiman from women's soccer was named to the third team in 1994 and the first team in 1995 & 1996. Elizabeth Roe of women's soccer was named to the first team in 1995 & 1996, while Eric Sribnick from men's cross country was named to the third team in 1997. Donny Thoresen from men's tennis was selected to the third team in 2001 while Jessi Adair from women's soccer was named the first team in 2001 & 2002. Doug Belknap of men's soccer was a third team selection in 2002 and a first team selection in 2003. Curtis Bell of baseball was the last Blue Hose student-athlete to earn this honor when he was named to the first team in 2004.