COMPLETE CSC ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT TEAMS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Lesley University men's soccer midfielder Caleb Race (Wellington, Fla.) and goalie Josiah Williams (Durham, N.C.) were named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team as announced by the organization.
To be eligible, nominated student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve with a minimum 3.50 cumulative grade-point average (GPA) in their second year at the current institution and must have played in at least 50 percent of the team's games.
Race is already a North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Academic All-Conference honoree and is currently pursuing a degree in Business Management while posting a 3.50 GPA.
On the pitch, he started in a career-high 16 games while also setting a career-high in shots on goal with four. In his Lesley career, he has one goal and one assist for a total of three points. Today's CSC Academic All-District honor is the first in his career.
Williams earned CSC Academic All-District honors for the first time in his career and is working toward a degree in Business Management, and has recorded a 3.86 GPA. Williams also earned a spot on the NAC Academic All-District Team last season.
In net for the Lynx this year, the Durham, N.C. native set career lows in goals allowed per game (2.00) and goals against average (2.31) in 1013:17 of action. He also averaged 3.62 saves per game and a save percentage of .644. Williams also notched two shutouts this season and now has finished with four in his career. In games where he allowed two goals or less, Williams and the Lynx were 3-1-1. His strongest performance this year came against UMaine Farmington (Oct. 19), where he recorded a season-high nine saves.
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.