Olivet College’s Pipkin named to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® second-team

OLIVET, Mich. -- Olivet College senior golfer Lindsay Pipkin (White Lake/Lakeland) has been named to the 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® At-Large College Division second-team, as selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). She was selected for this honor after being named to the 2009 CoSIDA Academic All-District IV first-team. The women's at-large team recognizes athletes who compete in the sports of fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, tennis and water polo.

Pipkin graduated magna cum laude with a 3.85 grade point average (GPA) in biology and pre-medicine concentration. On the golf course, she led the Comets with an 80.0 stroke average during the fall, earning first-team All-Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) honors and winning the league championship. This spring, Pipkin also posted an 80.0 stroke average and led Olivet to the NCAA Division III National Championships. For her efforts, she earned All-American and All-Great Lakes Region honors from the National Golf Coaches Association (NGCA).

Pipkin ended an outstanding career on the links for the Comets, leading them to three straight MIAA championships and national championship appearances. She became the first Olivet female student-athlete to earn first-team All-MIAA honors four consecutive years. For her career, Pipkin played in 92 total rounds with an 83.1 stroke average. She holds the Olivet 18-hole record with a 72 and is tied for first in the 36-hole record with a 151. Pipkin is a four-time recipient of the NGCA Scholar-Athlete award.

Off the golf course, Pipkin was a member of the Alpha Pi Upsilon pre-medical honorary society and the Omicron Delta Kappa national academic honor society. She also did volunteer work at the Joy-Southfield Free Health Clinic and Odyssey HealthCare Clinic.

Pipkin is the third Olivet student-athlete this spring to earn Academic All-America® honors. The others were softball player Anna Braner and wrestler Kyle Vanderhyde. Overall in school history, Olivet has had 13 Academic All-America® selections.

Pipkin is the daughter of Gary and Karen Pipkin. She will enroll in the physician's assistant program at University of Toledo (Ohio) later this fall.

To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.

Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America® honors on more than 14,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.

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