Julie Kraus Named ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Junior Julie Kraus (Derry, NH) of the Southern New Hampshire University women’s lacrosse team has been named to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine/College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Women’s At-Large Academic All-America Team as a Second Team selection. She becomes the sixth SNHU student-athlete in school history to be named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America team, joining Judy Crawford (softball, 1986), Warren Lewis (soccer (men’s at-large), 1993), Nick Therrien (ice hockey (men’s at-large), 1998), Lotta Thunberg (soccer (women’s at-large), 1998) and Brian Larrabee (men’s basketball, 2003).
CoSIDA selects Academic All-America teams in 12 programs, including the Women’s At-Large program. Student-athletes from 13 women’s sports are eligible: bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming, tennis and water polo. The College Division consists of NCAA Division II and III institutions as well as NAIA institutions.
Kraus is a Business Administration major with concentrations in small business management and human resource management who is also minoring in Marketing who earlier was named to the ESPN/CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team. Through her first three years at SNHU she has maintained a 3.99 grade-point average. She has been named the University’s Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in each of the past two years and is also a two-time selection to the Northeast-10 All-Academic Team.
On the field, Kraus recently became the women’s lacrosse program’s first All-American, as she was named to the IWLCA All-America Second Team while also being named to the All-America teams of insidelacrosse.com and womenslacrosse.com. She was also an IWLCA First Team All-Region selection. On the conference level, she was a First Team Northeast-10 All-Conference selection, as well as the NE-10 Defensive Player of the Year.
Kraus anchored a Penmen defense that ranked second in the Northeast-10 in 2008, allowing 12.72 goals per game. She led the Penmen in ground balls (62), draw controls (56) and caused turnovers (30) while ranking fourth in the NE-10 in ground balls and first in the league for draw controls. Nationally, Kraus ranked in the top 20 in Division II in all three categories as well as well as helping SNHU be the national leader in draw controls per game. One of three players to start all 18 games for SNHU, Kraus registered 12 goals and 13 assists for 25 points.