Wake Forest Athletics
Volleyball Places Two Athletes on the All-ACC Academic Team
2/10/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Feb. 10, 2006
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Wake Forest senior Erin Borhart and redshirt freshman Natalie Mullikin were two of 31 Atlantic Coast Conference volleyball players named to the 2005 All-ACC Academic Volleyball Team, as announced by the conference office, Friday.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.
A biology major and the Demon Deacons starting setter for the past three seasons, Borhart finished her collegiate career averaging 11.0 assists per game, which put her third in the Wake Forest record books in that category. Borhart was also named to the All-ACC squad in 2006.
In her first year on the squad with the Demon Deacons, Mullikin made an immediate impact. Starting in 21 of the 30 matches played, Mullikin finished the season averaging 2.37 kills per game and 1.04 blocks per game. A Lebanon, Ind. native, Mullikin's major is undeclared.
NC State led the conference with four selections to the academic team. Boston College, Clemson, Maryland, Miami, Virginia and Virginia Tech each placed three student-athletes on the squad, while Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Wake Forest each had two student-athletes named to the team. Duke rounded out the team with one honoree.
Boston College's Allison Anderson, Clemson's Brittany Ross, Georgia Tech's Lindsey Laband and Ulrike Stegemann, Maryland's Stephanie Smith, North Carolina's Camilla Ihenetu and Taylor Rayfield, NC State's Stefani Eddins, Virginia's Sarah Kirkwood and Wake Forest's Erin Borhart all garnered All-Conference honors this past fall.
In addition, Virginia's Sarah Kirkwood was named a second-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American by CoSIDA, while Georgia Tech's Stegemann, Miami's Michelle Bruin, NC State's Eddins and Melissa Rabe and Virginia Tech's Jennifer Albrecht and Melissa Markowski were selected to the 2005 CoSIDA Academic All-District III teams.
