Deweyert earns CoSIDA Academic All-District VI honors

OLIVET, Mich. – Recent Olivet College graduate Nicole Deweyert has been selected to the 2020 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District VI Women's At-Large team. She now advances to the 2020 CoSIDA NCAA Division III Academic All-America® ballot, where two at-large teams will be announced in June.

The criteria for nomination includes a 3.30 or higher cumulative grade point average and be a starter or important reserve. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, career statistics and honors were a part of the nomination this year instead of 2020 season statistics.

Deweyert was a four-time All-Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) pick, earning first-team honors in 2017 and 2019, and second-team honors in 2016 and 2018. She played in 70 career rounds at Olivet and is the all-time stroke average leader in school history at 81.5. Deweyert's low round was a 72 at the Zollner Golf Course on October 2, 2019. The round also broke the MIAA course record. She was named to the 2020 Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) All-Great Lakes Region team.

An exercise science major, Deweyert recently received the Donald A. Morris award for being one of the top graduating seniors with the highest grade point average who completed all coursework through Olivet. She was named to the President's List or Dean's List every semester. In addition, Deweyert was the recipient of the Linda Hoover Award for being Olivet's top senior female student-athlete. Other honors include twice being selected to the Health and Human Performance (HHP) All-Scholar Performance team and receiving the HPP Debra Tighe award.

Off the golf course, Deweyert volunteered for Special Olympics, including the state winter games in February. She organized the field day at Fern Persons Elementary School in Olivet and served as a student panelist at the Cultivating Women's Leadership retreat. Deweyert was a member of Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Women's Leadership Institute, President's Leadership Institute and Phi Epsilon Kappa honors society. Later this summer, she will become a four-time MIAA Academic Honor Roll recipient and a four-time WGCA Scholar-Athlete.

Deweyert is the fourth women's golfer in school history to be named to the Academic All-District team. The others were Lindsay Pipkin in 2008 and 2009, Megan Rimmel in 2010 and Adrienne Plourde in 2014.

The Academic All-District teams include student-athletes divided into eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. Olivet is in District VI, which includes schools in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. This is the eighth year of the expanded Academic All-America® program as CoSIDA moved from recognizing a University Division (Division I) and a College Division (all non-Division I) and has doubled the number of scholar-athletes honored. The expanded teams include NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA participants. A new college division featuring Canadian and two-year schools was introduced last spring.