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.
