Mateer Becomes First Baker Women’s Golfer Named to Academic All-District Team

BALDWIN CITY, Kan. – Baker University senior women’s golfer Lindsey Mateer continues to collect awards, as she became the first-ever in Baker University men’s or women’s golf to be named to the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District Women’s At-Large Team.

The award is to recognize the nations top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.

First-Team Academic All-District honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected later this month.

Mateer is just one of 11 athletes named to the First-Team College Division from District 3 which comes from a pool of athletes from the States of Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

All nomination criteria must be met for a nomination to be valid.

-  Nominations for the Academic All-America® program will be accepted only from current dues-paying CoSIDA members.

-  CoSIDA members may nominate student-athletes only from their own institution.

- To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) at his/her current institution. 

-  Nominated athletes must have participated in at least 50 percent of the team’s games at the position listed on the nomination form (where applicable). In baseball and softball, pitchers must have at least 10.0 innings pitched. Athletes who have not participated in at least 50 percent of their team’s contests are not eligible.

-  No student-athlete is eligible until he/she has completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and has reached sophomore athletic eligibility.

-  In the cases of transfers, graduate students and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible.

-  Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.30 or better both as an undergrad and in grad school.

-  All nomination deadlines are strictly followed.

-  With the exception of the at-large program, there are no limits in the number of athletes an institution may nominate. However, please make sure the student-athlete is either a starter or an important reserve.

Only four Baker student-athletes have ever been named CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, Josh Rydberg (Men’s Soccer), Jordan Dolbib (Women’s Soccer), Katie Thurbon (Women’s Track & Field) and Aaron Caldwell (Men’s Track & Field).