COMPLETE CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAM
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Christian McElroy (Toms River, N.J.) was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team for at-large sports as announced by the organization this afternoon.
To be nominated, student-athletes must be a significant contributor to their team with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his current institution. A limit of six nominations per school is set.
For the Academic All-District® Men's At-Large Teams, student-athletes from the following sports are eligible - Men's Fencing, Men's Golf, Men's Gymnastics, Men's Ice Hockey, Men's Lacrosse, Men's Rifle, Men's Skiing, Men's Volleyball, Men's Water Polo and Men's Wrestling. For golf student-athletes to qualify, eligible nominees must be in the lineup for 70 percent of an institution's TEAM SCORING events or in the lineup at the conference championship tournament
For McElroy, this will be his second career CSC Academic All-District nod after having already being recognized to the CSC Academic All-District team for baseball earlier this year. In his lone season with the men's golf squad, McElroy competed seven different matches including the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Championship. In the NAC Championship, McElroy was one of four Lynx to finish within the top-35 when he scored an overall 181 (+39) at the match. His strongest match on the year came at the NEIGA Championships where he carded led the Lynx after day one with a score of 81 (+9), and his best round that day came in the front nine when he carded a 39 (+3). He also notched a birdie on hole nine, which was a par four. Meanwhile, in the final round, McElroy scored 97 (+25) for an overall score of 178 (+34) in a 97th-place finish. The Toms River, N.J. native graduated this past May with a degree in Business while posting a 3.53 cumulative GPA.
About College Sports Communicators
College Sports Communicators (CSC) was founded in 1957 and is a 4,400+ member national association for strategic, creative and digital communicators across intercollegiate athletics in the United States and Canada. The current name of the organization was adopted following a membership-wide vote on August 31, 2022.
From its found in 1957 until the 2022 name change, the organization was known as College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The name change signaled a major step in a larger strategic plan to highlight the association's evolution and expansion. The move better aligns with the association's membership makeup and further positions the organization to support and advocate for its members who serve in the communications, digital and creative college sports industry, regardless of position or title.
The organization, which celebrated its 65th year during the 2021-22 academic year, is the second oldest management association in all of intercollegiate athletics. College Sports Communicators became an affiliated partner with NACDA (National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics) in December of 2008.
CSC's membership first reached the 3,000 mark during the 2013-14 school year and has topped that threshold each year since with the exception of the 2020-21 Covid-19 pandemic year. The membership base reached 4,000 for the first time in 2022-23.
Prior to the formation of the organization as CoSIDA in the mid-1950s, sports information directors as a group were a part of the American College Public Relations Association. Most SIDs at those ACPRA meetings eventually felt that a separate organization was needed and that led to CoSIDA's formation. There were 102 members at the original meeting/convention in 1957.