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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Lesley University women's volleyball student-athlete Jillian Donlan (Londonderry, N.H.) was named to the College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team as announced by the organization earlier today. Donlan becomes the first Lynx in program history to earn Academic All-District honors from CSC.
The 2024 Academic All-District® Volleyball teams, selected by College Sports Communicators, recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the court and in the classroom. To qualify, student-athletes must have over a 3.5 GPA while playing in 90% of their team's matches.
For the first time in her career, Donlan earned CSC Academic All-District® honors. She is working toward a degree in Elementary Education and has recorded a 3.68 GPA. Last season, she also earned a spot on the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Academic All-District Team.
On the court, Donlan took part in 13 matches (29 sets) and finished with nine digs on the year. She had two contests on the year where she finished with at least two digs (Oct. 4 vs. Curry College and Oct. 11 vs. Thomas).
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.