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Volleyball's Peric Earns CoSIDA Academic All-District Honors
11.17.17 | Women's Volleyball
PHILADELPHIA -- Temple volleyball player Dara Peric has been named a first-team Academic All-District selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Peric is a four-year starter for the Owls, who has racked up over 1,000 career digs, 500 career kills, and 75 career aces. This season, she has 161 digs and 109 kills, averaging 2.40 digs per set and 1.60 kills per frame. Peric earned 2014 American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year honors and was also an All-Conference selection.
In the classroom, Peric is a finance major with a 3.94 grade-point average within Temple's highly regarded Fox School of Business. She was a member of Temple's Trustee Ten last season, with the second-highest GPA among all Owl student athletes.
Peric is one of just six players named to the District 2 first team, which includes schools in D.C., Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. She is now under consideration for the CoSIDA Academic All-American team.
CoSIDA's Academic All-America program began in 1952 and currently sponsors programs for men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball and men's and women's track and field/cross country, as well as student-athletes who compete in other sports through the At-Large program. Â Among the criteria for nomination, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA and must have reached sophomore athletic eligibility.
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Peric is a four-year starter for the Owls, who has racked up over 1,000 career digs, 500 career kills, and 75 career aces. This season, she has 161 digs and 109 kills, averaging 2.40 digs per set and 1.60 kills per frame. Peric earned 2014 American Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year honors and was also an All-Conference selection.
In the classroom, Peric is a finance major with a 3.94 grade-point average within Temple's highly regarded Fox School of Business. She was a member of Temple's Trustee Ten last season, with the second-highest GPA among all Owl student athletes.
Peric is one of just six players named to the District 2 first team, which includes schools in D.C., Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. She is now under consideration for the CoSIDA Academic All-American team.
CoSIDA's Academic All-America program began in 1952 and currently sponsors programs for men's soccer, women's soccer, football, volleyball, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, softball and men's and women's track and field/cross country, as well as student-athletes who compete in other sports through the At-Large program. Â Among the criteria for nomination, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA and must have reached sophomore athletic eligibility.
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| DISTRICT 2 ACADEMIC ALL-AREA | ||||
| FIRST TEAM | ||||
| Name | School | Yr. | GPA | Major |
| McKenzie Eskridge | Northern Kentucky | Sr. | 4.00 | Sociology |
| Haley Libs | Northern Kentucky | Jr. | 4.00 | Exercise Science |
| Patricia Mattingly | U.S. Naval Academy | Jr. | 3.83 | Applied Mathematics |
| Dara Peric | Temple University | Sr. | 3.94 | Finance |
| Megan Polak | Lehigh University | Jr. | 3.92 | Behavioral Neuroscience |
| Chloe Rojas | Eastern Kentucky | Jr. | 4.00 | Journalism |
| Haleigh Washington | Penn State University | Sr. | 3.79 | Philosophy |
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