Emory University seniors Emily Rubin and Sara Belsole were each named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic all-District team for their performances on the field and in the classroom.  In addition, freshman Kelly Costopoulos was named the UAA Offensive Player of the Week, based on her performance during two Emory games last weekend.

Rubin earned a spot on the Academic all-District first team for the second-consecutive year.  This was the first Academic all-District honor for Belsole, who was named to the third team.

Rubin has been one of the top defenders in the region this season, helping the team record a 0.50 goals-against average this season, which was the 13^th-best mark among NCAA Division III teams at the start of last week.  In addition, she has scored three goals this season, two of which have been game winners, and added on two assists for eight total points, a career-best mark.  Last season, Rubin was an honorable mention to the all-UAA team.  The biology and business major has a 3.87 grade point average while at Emory.

Belsole has been one of Emory’s top scorers this season, recording four goals and two assists for 10 total points.  Earlier in the season, she scored a hat trick against Agnes Scott College, the first three-goal game by an Eagle in over three years.  She also assisted on the game-winning goal during the Eagles’ overtime win against then third-ranked Lynchburg College.  Belsole, a journalism and English major, has a GPA of 3.76.

Voting for the Academic All-District team is conducted by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Emory nominees represent the "college division" in District 3 which is composed of NCAA Division II and III, and NAIA schools in the states of Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

By virtue of earning a spot on the Academic All-District first team, Rubin will be placed on the ballot for the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America team, scheduled to be released on Tuesday, November 16^th.

In addition, freshman Kelly Costopoulos was named the University Athletic Association’s (UAA) Offensive Player of the Week for women’s soccer after scoring two goals, including a ‘golden goal,’ against a pair of conference opponents last weekend.  On Sunday afternoon, Costopoulos led Emory to a 2-1 victory in overtime against Case Western Reserve University, scoring the ‘golden goal’ just a minute and 12 seconds in the first overtime period.  On Friday, she notched the only goal of the Eagles’ 1-1 double-overtime tie against the 24^th-ranked University of Rochester, scoring in the 59^th minute of the contest to give Emory a 1-0 lead at the time.  Costopoulos, who has come off the bench in all 17 Emory games this season, is second on the squad in both goals (five) and points (11).

This was the second time in the last three weeks that Costopoulos has been named the UAA Offensive Player of the Week.  It marks the sixth time this season that an Emory player has been named the UAA Athlete of the Week.

The seventh-ranked Eagles, who are 13-1-3 this season, will wrap up their regular season on Sunday, November 7^th at Carnegie Mellon University at 11:00 AM.