CSR (Cara Van Woerkom Named 1st Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American)

CALVIN SPORTS REPORT FOR JUNE 11, 2009

Cara Van Woerkom Named ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American

GRAND RAPIDS -- For the second consecutive year, recent Calvin College
graduate Cara Van Woerkom has been named an ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-American. A native of Wyoming, Michigan, and a graduate of Grandville
Calvin Christian High School, Van Woerkom has been named an ESPN The Magazine
Academic All-America first team selection in the women's at-large college
division.

A year ago, Van Woerkom was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-America second team.

A four-year member of the Calvin women’s swimming and diving team, Van
Woerkom was a standout in the freestyle events, earning NCAA III All-America
honors eight times and honorable mention All-America honors six times during
her collegiate career. At the NCAA III Swimming and Diving Championships this
past March, Van Woerkom helped Calvin finish seventh as a team by finishing
13th in the 50 freestyle and swimming on Calvin’s All-America 400 medley, 200
freestyle and 800 freestyle relay teams.

Van Woerkom was a national qualifier four consecutive years and helped Calvin
post four straight top-10 national team finishes as the Knights were sixth in
2006, fourth in 2007, eighth in 2008 and seventh this past March.

A two-time All-MIAA selection, Van Woerkom was also a part of four MIAA
championship teams. She was the 2008 MIAA champion in the 50 freestyle and was
the league runner-up in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle events in 2009.

A Spanish major with a minor in biology, Van Woerkom carried a 3.92 grade
point average. She was an eight-time member of the Calvin Dean's List and is
expected to be a four-time member of the MIAA Academic Honor Roll. She plans to
attend the University of Wisconsin Medical School next fall.

Van Woerkom has also been heavily involved in the community, serving as a
Child Life Volunteer at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital. She has also
volunteered at the Christian Learning Center, working with cognitively impaired
young adults. Last summer, she volunteered with the My Team Triumph group,
assisting physically and/or cognitively disabled athletes so that they could
participate in area triathlons

The college division of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America program
includes NCAA II, NCAA III and NAIA schools. The Academic All-District and
All-America teams are selected by the College Sports Information Director’s
Association of America (CoSIDA). To be eligible for nomination, an individual
must be a starter or a key reserve with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.30. The
at-large division includes the sports of golf, tennis, swimming, water polo,
ice hockey, field hockey and lacrosse.

Calvin has now had its athletes receive ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America
accolades 77 times including 46 times in the last 10 years.

In a study released by the College Sports Information Director’s Association
of America last summer, Calvin was ranked eighth all-time among NCAA III
institutions for total Academic All-Americans including seventh across all
divisions (NCAA I, II and III) during the decade of the 2000’s.

Jeff Febus
Sports Information Director
Calvin College
(616) 526-6169 Office
(616) 526-8551 Fax
Received on Thu Jun 11 17:25:26 2009