Ackermann named CAC Women's Scholar-Athlete Award Winner

YORK, Pa. - Salisbury University women's lacrosse senior Sue Ackermann (Sykesville, Md./Liberty) was selected as the 2008 Capital Athletic Conference Women's Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the conference athletic directors and sports information directors.

Ackermann, an exercise science major with a near perfect cumulative grade point average, has earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District honors, IWLCA Academic Honor Roll recognition and was the female recipient of the 2007-08 SU Scholar-Athlete Award. 

She is the first Sea Gull to win this CAC award since 2005 when Kim Rementer (softball) was recognized. The two-time All-American first team selection becomes the sixth SU honoree in program history since 1999 and the first from women's lacrosse. Salisbury's men's soccer program has had two CAC Scholar-Athletes of the Year in the past.

Ackermann, the two-time Capital Athletic Conference Player of the Year, capped off one of the best careers ever for a Sea Gull in women's lacrosse history. The Sykesville, Md., native finished the '08 season two points shy of tying the all-time NCAA record for points in a single-season (154, set in 1996). The two-time IWLCA All-Chesapeake region first team selection finished the season with 152 points on 82 goals and 70 assists. The two-time All-CAC first team attacker graduates as the all-time SU leader in points (321) and assists (149). She is second all-time in goals (172). The two-time team captain was also a member of the Salisbury Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and recently received a 2008 MACDA post-graduate scholarship.

The Sea Gulls (22-1) capped off a record breaking season as SU won a program best 22 games and advanced to the NCAA semifinals.

The 2008 CAC Men's Scholar-Athlete of the Year went to University of Mary Washington basketball guard Justin Baker.