Wake Forest Athletics
Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick Named to Academic All-America District Team
2/22/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 22, 2001
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest women's basketball senior Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick was named to the Verizon Academic All-America District III Basketball Team, as announced by CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) on Thursday.
Kirkpatrick, a native of Waynesville, N.C., was one of five women's basketball players selected from a district that covers Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. She was the only player >from the Atlantic Coast Conference selected to the first team, and is the first Wake Forest player to earn the honor since Lindsay Seawright in 1995.
Criteria for selection to the Verizon Academic All-America team include being a starter or key reserve, sophomore athletic/academic standing and a 3.2 cumulative GPA. Kirkpatrick, along with the other District III first-team selections, will now advance to the national Academic All-America ballot.
Kirkpatrick is currently a graduate student in the Masters Teacher Fellow Program at Wake Forest, after earning undergraduate degrees in both history and sociology this past spring, compiling a 3.87 GPA. She has appeared on Wake Forest's Dean's List and the ACC Academic Honor Roll throughout her collegiate career. Kirkpatrick earned a 4.0 GPA this past fall in graduate school, and is spending the spring semester teaching in a local high school.
Kirkpatrick has excelled on the basketball court as well, as she has seen action in every game of her collegiate career. The 6-0 forward ranks among the top 20 scorers all-time at Wake Forest, while her career field goal percentage ranks fifth all-time. Kirkpatrick is also listed on Wake's all-time top-10 rebounding chart, and this year became just the 11th Deacon ever to record 500 career rebounds. She currently leads this year's team in rebounding (6.2 rpg), field goal percentage (.530) and steals (33), while ranking third in scoring with 10.4 points a contest.
Verizon Academic All-America District III Women's Basketball Team
| Player | Pos. | School | Year | GPA | Major | |
| Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick | F | Wake Forest | Grad. | 3.87 | Teachers Fellow | |
| Kristine Austgulen | F | Va. Commonwealth | Soph. | 4.00 | Mass Communications | |
| Coco Miller | G | Georgia | Senior | 3.36 | Biology | |
| Kelly Miller | G | Georgia | Senior | 3.40 | Biology | |
| Sara Moore | G | Campbell | Senior | 3.95 | Elementary Education |
